Camila Sposati’s works investigate transformation and energy processes. Her methods often approach scientific research methodologies. She has examined processes on microscopic and global scale, such as the growth of crystals in laboratories and the geological effects on the Earth’s crust on different sites. Her research has taken her to the Amazon, the backlands of Northeast Brazil, Turkmenistan , Uzbekistan, the United Kingdom, France, Holland and Japan. In Sposati’s work, historical processes highlight the contrast between a geological stratification, time and its meanings.
During her stay at m4gastatelier Sposati will focus on further developing the performance Phonosophia, a performance with clay instruments based on the anatomy of the sensorial organs. She will work on the light choreography and investigate – through conversations with musicians, musicologists, anthropologists a.o. - the parallels of music theory to earthly matters, the perception and psychology of sound, the sensorial of the ear in relation to equilibrium and gravity and music theory of ancient instruments.
Falke Pisano is known for her long-term projects, which she conceives as organised fields of research, production and reflection. She is interested in how art can play a role in the questioning of the institutions and structures that shape our socio-political and narrative spaces. At the moment she is working on a new research cycle on the development of the sciences in modernity and the way its institutions have contributed to a restricted and exclusive idea of knowledge. The first part, titled The value in mathematics, considers mathematics as a cultural construct, questioning the universality of mathematical discourse and the implications of a heterogeneous approach to mathematics.
In the second chapter with the working title biomedicine as agent of change Pisano will trace how biomedicine was influenced by cultural conditions in different areas of the world and vice versa. She will use the time in Amsterdam to start her research from the knowledge about biomedicine and colonialism that is present in the universities, libraries and museums in the Netherlands.
Camila Sposati and Falke Pisano will furthermore work on their collaborative project about Lundu, a style of Afro-Brazilian music and dance that developed through the exchange of African Bantu and Spanish and Portuguese people in Brazil from the 17th century on. Their research will focus on Lundu’s potential to dynamize seemingly fixed asymmetric relations by creating a sensorial displacement from the norms in colonial Brazil.
