Film programme: Animistic Apparatus

Het Glazen Huis | 9 June, 2022 | Part of the Shadow Floriade

As part of the Perfect Nature: Amstelpark Test Site exhibition, Zone2Source organises a special film programme with May Adadol Ingawanij and Julian Ross on June 9 from 20.30 hrs featuring Asian artists who connect ecology with spirituality. A programme with films by Shireen Seno, Pam Virada, Riar Rizaldi and Rei Hayama & Zai Tang. Start from Het Glazen Huis. Register for free through Eventbrite.

Installation view at MOCA Busan, Busan Biennale 2020 © Rei Hayama, Zai Tang, Busan
Biennale 2020

Animistic Apparatus is a curatorial project proposing affinities between contemporary artists’ moving image and animistic practices, based on research by May Adadol Ingawanij and co-curator Julian Ross. The project grew from Ingawanij’s experience of researching ritual uses of film projection around Thailand and neighbouring territories since the Cold War period. Animistic Apparatus asks the following questions: What if contemporary film screenings and installations were reimagined as if they were rituals offered and addressed to nonhuman beings? What if artists were precarious makers of offerings, rather than authors of work or producers of self-expression?

Throughout the exhibition the work of Riar Rizaldi and Pam Virada are shown in het Glazen Huis.

Practical information

Date: 9 June, 2022
Time: 20.30 – 23.00h
Location: The Glazen Huis
Language: English
Registration: Eventbrite

Programme

A child dies, a child plays, a woman is born, a woman dies, a bird arrives, a bird flies off
Shireen Seno, 2019, 18 min, color, sound, HD

A single channel edition of Shireen Seno’s project, exploring cinema and migration in many forms and times. Seno says, “Birds, and ducks in particular, are like role models for humans—they find ways to survive by various means across varied terrain. I hope to bring together a mix of local birds and migratory ones, migrating across different generations of moving image media.”

Shireen Seno is an artist and filmmaker whose work addresses memory, history, and image-making, often in relation to the idea of home

Prelude: Points of Departure
Pam Virada, 2022, 8:10min, color, sound, HD

The coming together of the five Chinese elements (earth, metal, water, wood, fire) signifies balance in Feng Shui through their positioning in cardinal/ordinal directions, relating to the house and its inhabitants. When there is an imbalance, the house malfunctions and decays. Using the elements as a point of departure, Pam Virada’s work navigates each element as coordinates for domestic tales of hauntings bound in space and time, turning the interior space into an infinite expanse.

Pam Virada (b. 1993, Bangkok) is interested in the contextualized notions that lie between the realms of architectural space, memory, as well as mnemonic devices and is currently resident of the Sandberg Institute in Amsterdam.

Kasiterit
Riar Rizaldi, 2019, 18:22, colour, sound, HD

Tin is an essential component of screens and other digital devise. A third of the world’s global supply comes from Banka island in Indonesia. Flying to the island for the first time, Riar Rizaldi noticed it was entirely covered in mining sites. He asked the miners what they mining. “Their answer was tin and I asked “What for?”, to which they pointed at my phone and replied: “Our tin is in that phone” It was eye-opening for me. I started thinking about the material of tin creating technology, and therefore information, and therefore knowledge, and all this entanglement leading back to the island.”

Riar Rizaldi (Indonesia) is based in Hong Kong and works as an artist and researcher. His main focus is on the relationship between capital and technology, extractivism, and theoretical fiction.

Dormant Soil / Concrete Reflections
Rei Hayama & Zai Tang, 2020, 19 min, colour, sound, HD

A collaboration between film artist Rei Hayama and sound artist Zai Tang, and a response to Kim Hyesoon’s poem Haeundae Texas Queen Kong. Hayama and Tang collected material from their respective surroundings of Yokohama and Singapore, guided by their responses and the resonances from Hyesoon’s poem. Their collaborative process is a navigation towards a third space between poetry, film and sound.

Zai Tang & Rei Hayama, are two artists with a double curiosity for the human and non-human lives in an anthropocentric point of view revolving around living nature