Transeuntis Mundi in Georgia 2024

TRANSEUNTIS MUNDI DERIVE 01

AT GEORGIA COLLEGE & STATE UNIVERSITY

Feb/March 2024

1. VIDEO ART

2. SOUND INSTALLATION

3. WALKING SCORES

4. PHOTOGRAPHS

5. AUGMENTED REALITY

6. ARTIST’S BOOK

7. VIRTUAL REALITY

8. WEB ART PIECE

1. The projections features a 24-minute video art pieces showcasing the walks of the Transeuntis Mundi Project around the world. The projection in the entrance has fragments of the VR piece, infused with texts, symbols and maps, to start the immersion in our stories.

The projection in the side hall presents 1) Palm Hand and 2) the TM concert – an interaction of music, AI and our archive, created with the collaboration of composers from the places we recorded. Check the composers HERE.

Order: Palm Hand; Music by: Esteban Henao, Kerry Priest, Cândida Borges & Natalia Henao; Chai Tamayo.

2. SOUND in the main hall: The work “Mutations 2/22/24” is a generative sound piece created in real-time, as a metaphor to the genetic process merging the sounds of the places we passed by.

3. WALLS BY THE WINDOWS: The walking scores are poems forms that guides your walks in the VR piece.

4. A collection of 8 sonic-photographs from the series Derive 01 were created upon with 360-degree material, exploring the ideas of circularity.

5. These photographs serve as portals to “minimal stories,” revealed through augmented reality activation. The QR Code is around for you to download the app and experience it. It reveals a work in AR, sound and moving image.

6. The Artist’s Book is a printed work capturing a moment from Derive 01, also performed with AR. In this exhibition, you can also find the PhD thesis abou the compositional process of this work.

7. The virtual reality piece is a journey lasting up to 56 minutes. Look for the manual to ger familiarized with it before starting. Wear confortably the headsets and the headphones. TIP: the stories happen in the sound!

8. Other stories and places can be experienced in the Web Art Piece we call “WEB DERIVE 01”, presented here as a computer piece. Continue your experience at home and invite friends from an online link HERE

WE ALL ARE TRANSEUNTIS MUNDI

By. Alexandre Milagres – curator from Minas Gerais/ Brazil.

We have been in continuous movement. From macro to micro, from planet to particle, we are a state of inconstancy and change. Our deepest concerns are always connected to the desire to move in space and transform ourselves as a spirit. Leave, or rather just go. After all, there is no way back home. The place we started from will never be as we left it.

Having human migrations as a starting point, the Transeuntis Mundi (TM) project, created in 2018, connects us to the very history of its creators. The Brazilian artist and musician Cândida Borges, a mixture of Bahia and Niterói (Rio de Janeiro/Brazil), crossed the Atlantic to develop her PhD in Arts at the University of Plymouth (UK). The artist Gabriel Mario Vélez, born in Medellín (Colombia), obtained his doctorate in Arts at the Complutense University of Madrid (Spain) and completed a post-doctorate in Córdoba (Argentina).

The set of works in the Transeuntis Mundi – Deriva 01 exhibition, which includes WebDerive 01, invites us to reflect on our ancestral nomadism, our presence and our movements around the world, through virtual reality technologies, augmented reality, generative compositions, presentations and performances. Immersed in these works, we traveled through Colombia, Brazil, England and the United States, jumping virtually and experiencing the daily life of many places.

From the whistle of the train near Zilker Metropolitan Park, in Austin, to the waves of a small beach in Rio de Janeiro, we are called to an outpouring of senses, to experience a latent corporeality that becomes strange in the most commonplace of everyday life: the couple buying potatoes at a fair, the child balancing on a scooter, the dog running in a square, the car going up a street, people running in a park or entering a river, everything around takes on symbolic relevance.

Moving around the world, observing, as the artists propose to us join in journey that connects peoples and cultures from such different places, some comparisons naturally take shape. From fairs in Rochester to those taking place in Niterói, would we be more alike than we thought we were? From Popayan to Plymouth, amidst the cultural variations and recombinations that each moment and location provide, can we say that we play, walk and talk as a single humanity? Would “humanity”, this totalizing notion of what we are, also be a concept in movement?

In Deriva 01, proposed by Transeuntis Mundi, we find a call and an opportunity to review ourselves and, who knows, experience other variations of our transhuman condition, “mutations” as proposed by the generative work that, based on data and collections from the DNArchive Project, recombines sound and visual landscapes from different parts of the world, generating sounds that may one day become one of the destinations of our restless human journey.

Incidentally, it is also necessary to ask ourselves how much this journey over the last few decades – or even throughout the last century – could have been done blindly, not just metaphorically. We live in the Anthropocene, an era in this world in which the impacts of our actions are visible on the horizon, but, despite being clearly sensitive, there are those who continue walking without noticing anything, moving only to keep moving forward, with the world and the people around being a mere familiar scenario, gray, blurred, common and uninteresting.

De-automatizing the senses becomes, then, more than an artistic process, a manifesto-act essential to each one of us, as proposed by the Poetic Score: “you are a transeuntis mundi. / start your journey by recognizing where you are, / what you hear, what you see and who you are.” Stop for a few minutes and listen around, wonder what is in this environment and, when leaving the exhibition, stay awake, look for your nomadic roots and give a new chance to those who walk with you. We are all ‘transeuntis mundi’. If we got here together, we also managed to change direction together.

This exhibition is developed by Criarte Casa de Arte e Cultura and Transeuntis LLC in partnership with LELAN Gallery. The project has support from the University of Antioquia (Colombia), Music Not Impossible project, and the company Zoom US. Special thanks to Dr. Ruben Yepes and Violeta, Megan Mcnaught and to Georgia College and State University.

Opening Performance on Feb 22nd, 5-7pm.

The exhibition runs until March 14th/24

Web Derive 01

Online exhibition – access the link.

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