A multi-format (a vinyl record, a publication and an installation) and multidisciplinary project with an approach between science, technology and the arts, in dialogue with contemporary thinkers. The vinyl LP gathers a set of sound pieces made by twelve musicians with whom Lamas collaborated.
We would all like to end up reconciled with the world, to know what world we live in and consequently what life is. Meteors have fascinated the human race since they were first spotted in the night sky. But without science and space exploration to aid understanding of what these amounts of rock and ice are, ancient cultures often turned to myth and legend to explain them. Would a new paradigm enable us to become more resistant to the test that the recent Coronavirus ordeal presents to the global economy and societies? Belonging to a territory is the phenomenon that we are most urgently rethinking and carefully redescribing; learning new ways to inhabit the Earth is our biggest challenge.
Gaia is a multidisciplinary project with an approach between science, technology and the arts, in dialogue with contemporary thinkers and that promotes an ecological production. It comprises two works, a record-cum-publication and an installation. It was developed with the artistic direction of Salomé Lamas under the frame of Scale Travels, a collaborative program between Gnration and INL - International Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory.
This record-cum-publication features correspondence with scientists Jérôme Borme, Alex Bondarchuk; images captured with a scanning electron microscope (SEM); sounds by André Gonçalves, Emmett Kelly, Luís Fernandes, Rodolfo Carvalho, Filipe Felizardo, Joana Sá, Gonçalo Almeida, João Lobo, Nuno da Luz, Pedro Sousa, Yu Lin Hum, Tanja Simic.
Excerpts by Carlo Rovelli, Paul Lafolley, E. O. Wilson, John A Rogers, Mark J Plotkin, Shoshana Zuboff, Ray Kurzweil, Byung-Chal Han, Ailton Krenak,
David Harvey, John Gray, Bonaventura de Sousa Santos, Gérard Wajcman,
Tania Mouraud, Peter Sloterdijk, Bruno Latour, Kwame Anthony Appiah, Noam Chomsky, Julie Cruikshank, Donna Haraway, José Gil, Michael James Winkelman, Yuk Hui, Nick Bostrom, Bill Joy, Han Moravec, Elon Musk, Michio Kaku, Viriato Soromenho-Marques, Dipesh Chakrabarty, Bill Gates,
James Lovelock, Ruyu Hung, Roberto Esposito,
Frédéric Neyrat, Giorgio Agamben,
Beatriz Colomina &
Mark Wigley, Daniel Christian Wahl,
Jean-Luc Nancy, José Tolentino Mendonça, Yuval Noah Harari,
Slovoj Žižek.
Salomé Lamas (born 1987 in Lisbon) is a Portuguese filmmaker, visual artist and educator. Her work has been contextualized in visual culture, artistic studies, and film studies, exhibited, and distributed internationally in the fields of cinema (movie theatres, festivals, VOD streaming) and contemporary art (galleries, museums, art fairs, biennials).
Salomé Lamas has been developing an artistic practice that explores the embedded relation between representation and the narrative power of social reality while proposing something different. Around, but not beyond, the real: beyond, but not besides, the fictional. To address the efforts to expand such interstice she refers to her work as critical media practice parafictions.
With a mixed background in cinema and visual arts, and a research informed by critical epistemology, transnational and subjective, focused on the possibilities opened up by the ecological thought, as well as the connection between artistic praxis, economic, aesthetic mutations, and contemporary philosophy, she's been challenged to comply to a single orientation or to combine them in her action as an artist/filmmaker, but also as an educator, in various contexts, levels and geographies.
The multidisciplinary ethos underpinning her artistic endeavor, continually challenges the boundaries of visual narrative, to foster critical dialogues that prompt audiences to confront the intricacies of the human experience and broader societal dynamics, focused on Migration, Post–colonialism, and a critique of capitalism.
This research–based practice perpetuates a legacy of intellectual inquiry and artistic innovation and approaches critically the social and economic roles of media production, in the stages of development, production, exhibition, distribution and archive with outcomes ranging from films, audiovisual installations and publications.
