Video Art and performance work

This section is a collection of Video Art and performance work by Artists from around the world who have donated this works as an EmpathicAction, please scroll the see more.

MA-MA, Yael Karavan and Rita Vilhena: MA-MA is a performance, created and performed by Yael Karavan and Rita Vilhena. It aims to reflect on the place where we live- Planet Earth / Mother Earth and to find its parallels with our bodies/ women bodies.Reflecting the fragility and the imminent danger to which life on earth is subjected, due to the increase of human demographic, our unreasonable and unconscious ambitions, as well as climate change and global warming. Seeing Planet Earth as a fertile woman’s body was a metaphor given in several traditions that focused on the vital and nutritious aspects of nature when incarnating it in the form of a Mother / Woman. So what happens nowadays to our mother Earth, as it’s being subjected to extreme levels of pollution and carbon emissions, scandalous amounts of plastic, monoculture, etc .. and how does it affect our own bodies? MA-MA observes the effects our actions and the residues of our actions have on our planet and thus on our bodies. Photos by Josefa Searle. Supported by the Emergency funds of the Portuguese Government. links -www.yaelkaravan.com and www.ritavilhena.com

HOLY COW, Yael Karavan: In October 2019 I have immersed myself into an R&D on the theme of animal agriculture, after realising the massive impact of beef on our climate. I was surprised that there was nearly no action taken by policy makers or a substantial political campaign to raise awareness. I had to do something, I felt helpless but realised I didn’t know how to approach the theme without becoming too excited or angry. I had to find ways to share these facts and feelings without being too moralistic or didactic. This brought me to question if Art can actually affect change in our behaviour and habits.

Created and performed by Yael Karavan with Song Writer and performer – Tim Harbridge, Mask maker and outside eye – Matt Rudkin, Illustrator- Izhar Cohen, Graphic Designer- Foz Foster and photographer- James Bellorini. Supported by Arts Council England

Attached is a link of a section from the Holy Cow performence by Yael Karavan: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--xL_fvYsK8&feature=emb_logo

Josephine Grundy (UK/France/Spain) is a multi-disciplinary artist and teacher based in Barcelona. She produces her own pieces, often in collaboration with other artists, musicians and performers, and has over 10 years' experience teaching butoh dance, voice and composition/choreography to people from different backgrounds.
website: www.voxdansa.com

Higher Frequencies is a piece by Josephine Grundy (VoxDansa), in collaboration with musician El Pepe Bolívar and video artist and performer César Bolívar.

It stems from an improvised contemplation around the theme of things that may be, or appear to be, outside our perception, such as high sound frequencies or certain spectrums of light.
It seeks to question our relationship with our environment and our habitual ways of perceiving and communicating with the world around us. Perhaps we are often blind and deaf to the messages of the universe, at our own cost and at the cost of our natural environment. The writing has long been on the wall, we rush in the direction of the song of the sirens, all too often we choose to ignore the signs or have become innoculated against them.
The medium of video allowed us to give emphasis to the concept of bearing witness, highlighting the complexities of our own perception of our place in the universe. Rather than being a video recording of a dance performance this piece is a four-way conversation between musician, performer, camera and environment.

Clay Woman: In a square in the middle of a city, a woman arrives, slowly. She approaches a mound of earth under a tree, removes her shoes, makes the clay with the help of water and begins to work it with her feet. Treading, kneading, opening, entering, surrendering. The clay covers her completely - clothes, hair and body merge. She comes out another. Clay woman, mud woman, terracotta sculpture.

Created and performed by: Naomi Silman (LUME Teatro)

Photography and ‘paste-up’: Mariana Rotili

Haikorpos- Colectivo Mo: While in isolation in April 2020 due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the members of the performance research collective - Coletivo Mó - created collectively, and at a distance, 7 visual poems, venting their imaginations in connection with the different spaces they were inhabiting. Inspired by the synthesis, precision and poetry of Japanese Haikai poems that traditionally evoke images of the natural world, the performers looked to infuse their movements and physical actions with these characteristics. From this was born HAIKORPOS: a solitary giant appears on earth and finds a large book. On opening it, he encounters other isolated beings in different surroundings – from the most confined to the most free.

by Ademir Apparício Junior, Carolina Moreira, Gracyela Gitirana, Mariana Gabriel, Mariana Rotili, Naomi Silman and Renata Carlomagno

Contact - email: omoviteloc@gmail.com

instagram: @coletivo.mo

Mikey Georgeson

nonbifurcatedman extended edit: “This film is from an installation of driving into a mist dandelion seeds with my son. This creating a feeling of transcendent connection to nature”

wec ome inpeace 1: an interrogation of human separation from nature.
www.mikeygeorgeson.com

mikey_georgeson@me.com