A ritual + screening evening
Artist: Lucy Cordes Engelman
Opening:
Sunday July 24th
Doors open: 18:00 h
Start Screening: 19:00 h
Short description:
Lucy Cordes Engelman will convert See Lab into a cinema/chapel for a one-time ritual+screening in conjunction with the beginning of the solar homecoming season of Leo, ie. Deep Summer. In relation to her ongoing research, two short films will screen :
She who is close to the SALT/SEA (super 8 and DV camcorder, 27:00, sound, color)
&
The Temple of Nehalennia (super 8, 12:00, sound, color)
Thematic sensory snacks will be offered by 'bai piki', and a book of Lucy's research findings - recently compiled and printed during a residency at Frans Masereel Centrum in Belgium - will also be shared.
Part of the See Lab program of 2022, this event is an opportunity for the artist to try out some alternative ways of sharing her most recent film work as well as offer some of her research process and prints from the past year.
Guest collaborator bai piki ("ga plukken") has fermented and baked things for eating in collaboration with the night's theme.
Details for participating:
There are a limited number of spaces available for this event. Please reserve a spot by sending an email to seelabprojectspace@gmail.com
And don't hesitate to get in touch with any questions!
More about the evening:
This ritual + screening at See Lab welcomes solar homecoming season of Leo, while being situated near the coastal area of Lucy's ongoing research. Her project plumbs the depths of the newly discovered drowned continent of Doggerland that is now the North Sea, an ancient timber circle affectionately called, 'Seahenge', and a Neolithic Netherlands' marine goddess, Nehalennia, whose name translates loosely between, "she who is close to the sea" and "she who is close to the salt"... in a meditative film, Lucy draws on an Icelandic myth of the selkie mother returning to her underwater realm. The work meditates on the longing of the human child who the mother has left behind, now a sensory scientist, desperate to communicate with their mother through the exchange of gifts.
Interested in folklore that muddies the distinction between human and non-human, Lucy approaches these works-in-progress as elements of a longing for the watery origins of life -- a longing that deepens with a recognition of the ocean's mighty power over us.
Shot in Iceland and The Netherlands, the footage carries the viewer through a body that is neither strictly land nor strictly sea.
Financially supported by:
