In the Presence of Ancestors
What role do our ancestors continue to play in our daily lives? Do we carry the weight of generations on our shoulders, and how might we release ourselves from the pressure of ancestral beliefs, opinions, and worldviews that differ from our own? Should we make peace with them, reach out to them, or confront them? And to what extent are the soil we come from and the ecology of our origins hardwired into our bodies?
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Anti-disciplinary artist Anne Jesuina will shed light on these questions from their practice. Drawing on ceremonial practices from Brazil, they share their experiences in Afro-Brazilian rituals and community life as a way to deal with the filth and the beauty of past and present and a way to learn to find ease and creativity in the inbetween.
About Aromathéque
Every month olfactory artist Frank Bloem curates a program where experts, artists, designers and scientists shift our perspectives on what we eat, drink, touch, inhale, secrete and smell. These so called "lower senses" are not only placed lower in our body but also were considered through history as lesser, more banal and not sophisticated. We think differently. Starting from a simple theme with a thought provoking question, we go on a journey and inviting people from different disciplines to discover the world that lies behind everyday phenomena.
Frank Bloem
Frank Bloem is an artist who uses scent as his primary medium. He started his lab The Snifferoo in 2016 and creates scent art projects. From elephant scents for Artis Zoo to erotic pine scents for festival Into the great wide Open. He works with artist and museums and has a long term collaboration with The Embassy of the North Sea for who he made art projects and a perfume. For Mediamatic Frank has been active since 2017. From Collaborating on Odorama evenings with Caro Verbeek to giving scent and distillation workshops. Since 2019 he is the manager of the Aroma Lab that he set up together with Niklaus Metler.
Presentation about different body smells and smell samples from the elephant intimate body parts. -
With: Frank BloemAnne Jesuina
Anne Jesuina (they/them) (born 1989) is a anti-disciplinary artist of Groningen and Afro-Brazilian descent, based in Utrecht. She combines text, music, voice, moving image, movement, costume, and performance to expose the invisiblized grammar of white "supremacy" in order to find generatie places of power amidst ongoing colonial legacies.
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Thursday 26th of February
19:30 - 21:00
Ticket: €12,50
Student, kunstenaar, Stadspas: €8,50
