| Description | Sin Sol, Forest Memory, a collaboration between IAS faculty member Abraham Avnisan and micha cárdenas, will premiere at The Henry Art Gallery this month as part of a group exhibition entitled Between Bodies. Sin Sol is an immersive and interactive installation that explores the intersections of social and environmental justice.
- 3 - 4 PM - conversation among some of the artists in the show, moderated by IAS faculty member Thea Quiray Tagle
- 4 - 6 PM - social hour
The events are open to the public, and partners and children are welcome.
Sin Sol, Forest Memory is a collaboration between Abraham Avnisan and micha cárdenas that brings together their shared interests in the critical and creative potentials of technology and experimental writing. A video installation and work of augmented reality poetry, Sin Sol, Forest Memory explores the embodied memory of a landscape blanketed in the smoke of forest fires recounted through an exchange of letters between a future ancestor named Aura and an interlocutor of an indeterminate space-time. In this work, time slips between past, present, and future to sketch a story in which the demise of the human species is the result of long-ingrained structural violence against the Earth and each other. It is a landscape haunted by the loss of possible futures, and as such invites ways of imaginatively considering adaptive forms of being and survival.Visitors encounter the poetic texts and the figure of Aura within the space of the installation using iPads equipped with an augmented reality application. This “lens” reveals another layer of the landscape that is otherwise invisible, opening questions about which and whose narratives of species life and death may lie beyond that which is immediately in view. |
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