Borderless Lockdown
One Minute Video Art (OMVA) 2020
by Artpro Art Initiative www.artpro.com.bd
Curated by
Sophia Moffa
Ashim Halder Sagor
Jonathan Johnson, USA/Thailand – I’m Listening, I’m Listening
Website: www.jonathanjohnson.net
Instagram: @photo.johnson
A meditation on speaking, listening and watching during our time of isolation.
Filomena Rusciano, Italy – suspended
Vimeo: mena1979
Facebook: @mena.rusciano
Life stuck in an unexpected suspension
Ana Rita Canhão, Portuguese – And then, the Earth stood still
Website: www.anaritacanhao.com
Instagram: @ a_n_a_r_i_t_a_c_a_n_h_a_o
Facebook: @aritacanhao
In my work I try to create conceptual analyses of society and the existing constraints in order to deconstruct them.
Tilottama Bhowmick, Bangladesh –
middle of the lust
Facebook: @tilottama toma
Instagram: @bhowmicktilottama
We are going through a time that is worrying and hopeful at the same time. Basically, the standard by which we were living our lives before this pandemic has created a place for new thinking or analysis today. Today we are in a middle position in the knowledge we have acquired, where we have to think about our future possibilities along with past and present of course. Now the question arises on how we can get an idea of the future and its possibilities? By rethinking and re-ensuring the constructive discourse (as Foucault’s discourse theory) and the marginal discourses (as Judith Butler mentioned) which are on the verge of prioritizing? Which performative practices should we practice and how freely?
In the one-minute video project, I use some parts of my poetic story which I have done recently is mentioned below_
‘middle of the lust’
What is it you lust for?
What is it that you really want?
I want to go back into my mother’s womb.
It is impossible.
I lust for the impossible then.
I want to be among the stars with no beginning, no end.
I want to rest,
move
or hover there slowly.
It is finite.
I would say it is both infinite and infinitesimal.
Carrying back food, they are marching down the dining table,
Making their way across the floor, on to the wall, through the narrow passages,
To briefly disappear behind the baseboard where they are joined by more still
Before crossing the kitchen and climbing up and out the window sill…
Their jaws tightly locked on to the tiny packets of food.
Hurling and lugging to keep it from falling down.
hey,
Be careful, you are swaying from the subject…you
are in middle of the lust
Yes, I am. But remember our shared pheromonal governances,
Our conjoined intimacies.
Our lusts are all but one.
Guilherme Bergamini, Brazil – Entirety (full version
www.guilhermebergamini.com
Instagram: @guilhermebergamini
Facebook: @guilhermebergaminifotografia
The abandonment of individuals by societies and their governments is both unjustifiable and unforgivable.
The Planet Earth will continue to shelter the Kingdoms of Barbarism and Insanity as long as there is a single human being insisting on not recognizing the integrity of everyone else, near or far from you. A single individual “from below” can implode the entire civilizing process, sucking it to its level and annihilating any efforts to achieve social justice, peace and planetary harmony.
There is an urgent need to recognize the fullness, the fragility and the power to add each one and everyone.
Nobody is despicable, nobody is harmless, all life is of value. No nation is despicable, no nation is harmless, every nation is of value. No ethnicity is despicable, no ethnicity is harmless, all ethnicity is of value. No people are despicable, no people are harmless, all people are of value. Either we assume each of us, our responsibility to the whole, taking care to respect it, or we will be much closer to our own extinction than we could imagine.