The non-exhaustive exhibition chooses to highlight the video creations A Terra como Acontecimento I and II; the first (2012), a matrix material from which Romy Castro’s aesthetic and geophilosophical research has been unfolding since 2012, draws on the artist’s own thinking as well as that of J.A. Bragança de Miranda. It takes the form of a vibratory essay, an exploration of matter-dark and matter-light, sounded from noises produced by the Earth and collected by the artist.

The second video piece (2021) extends the experiment towards new pictorial compositions in tryptic and colour. The introduction of written language, infiltrated by the artist’s own thoughts as well as those of Carl Sagan, Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari and J.A. Bragança de Miranda, puts philosophical questions and lively, pulsating materiality in dialogue. A research on space and territory that questions its limits, contours and its points of permeability with the rest of the living.

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BIOGRAPHY OF THE ARTIST

Romy Castro (born in Lisbon, Portugal). Visual artist, curator and integrated post-doctoral researcher of the ICNOVA – Culture, Mediation and Arts of the FCSHUNL. Her transdisciplinary, artistic and geophilosophical work deals with earth materials, and promotes research, experimentation, creation and artistic innovation, as a horizon of thought and action, in the critical moment that constitutes the Anthropocene. Her work, whether in painting, installation, sculpture, photography, jewellery or video, has been presented in 60 individual exhibitions and 100 collective exhibitions. She has represented Portugal abroad on three occasions: in “Europa a Miró” in Barcelona (1993), in the “V International Biennial of Arts” in Sharjah, United Arab Emirates and in “ELEVEN – M”, in homage to the attacks of March 11 in Madrid, with the support of the BBC (2019). She participated in “Lisboa Capital Europeia da Cultura” (1994) and “Guimarães Capital Europeia da Cultura” (2012). She researches and publishes in the fields of philosophy of art, aesthetics, cinema, philosophy of communication and geophilosophy. She is a member of the scientific committee of the European Conference of Humanities during the Portuguese Presidency of the Council of the European Union (2021) and of the scientific committee of the international journal of art and anthropology of the image “Cinema & Territory”, of the University of Madeira – UMA.

SYMPOSIUM
BEING – THE EARTH AS AN EVENT

transdisciplinary event within the framework of Saison France-Portugal 2022

SYMPOSIUM
JUNE 17TH
FROM 2PM TO 6:30PM
Live on ZOOM

Humanities Arts and Society and Mémoire de l’Avenir are inviting a panel of artists and researchers to address different citizen, artistic and scientific initiatives that are part of a transdisciplinary reflection on contemporary environmental issues, weaving new narratives to reinvent the Earthlings-Earth relationship.

Organized in collaboration with UNESCO MOST, the event will benefit from simultaneous translation by a French-Portuguese interpreter.

PANEL OF ARTISTS AND THINKERS

| Romy Castro | J.A. Bragança de Miranda |

Tramages collective
| Alexia Antuofermo | Elena Tognoli |
| Giacomo Sartori | Christopher Alexander Kostritsky Gellert | Taylor Alaina Liebenstein Smith | Tiffany Tavares Arasi | Laurine Wagner | Anya Gleizer |

l groupe franco-britannique Addictive TV |