Pororoca performance @ Manifesta 11
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Pororoca Great Roar: Americas!
My fellow artist and I have been invited to present our performance at Manifesta 11 - the highly respected European Biennial of Contemporary Art which takes place this year in Zurich, Switzerland.
We are seeking to raise $2000 for our air-travel as it is not covered by the organizers.
‘Pororoca Great Roar’ is a performance-collaboration between an artist/bass player Pa Ra and an artist/percussionist Don Amit.
It focuses on the experiences of two first-generation immigrants from Eurasia as they adapt to new ways of life in New York while discovering their broader transcultural identities in the Americas.
We are eager to perform this work in Europe especially because in such volatile times, our life-long experiences as artist-immigrants in the Americas may be essential to be heard.
The main aim of Pororoca performance is educational 'knowledge production.' We hope that it will aid to better understand the contemporary conditions of some of the most disadvantaged members of our globalized societies and will seek to offer a creative alternative to a conflict-solving.
(detailed outline of our performance is given below).
donations:.
Donations of all ammounts are equally appreciated. If you can not donate, pls., share, spread the word about our campaign.
All supporters will receive a web-link to a free download to one of our musical compositions (check below).
Donors of 50usd will receive a digital image of an artwork which can work on your computer as a desktop image (see below).
Donors of 100usd will recieve a unique silkscreen print on paper.
Givers of 300usd and up, will be given a unique physical artwork - it will be a work on paper (or a wearable artwork for your loved ones!) made available upon request and only during the months of August & September - limited edition !
Thank you for your support, sincerely,
Pa Ra
Pororoca at Manifesta 11
pororoca performance sound excerpt
More information on Pororoca performance:
Pororoca Great Roar is an interdisciplinary performance, which is part of a larger series of collaborative works titled Pororoca.
The series was launched in 2006 and evolved through extensive field-artworks conducted by Pa Ra at diverse natural, archeological and urban sites, ranging from the Amazon river estuary to Mayan ceremonial grounds to the United Nations Plaza in Manhattan.
Pororoca translates as the ‘great roar' from Tupi-Guarani language, and refers to an annual natural phenomenon, a tidal wave of immense and often destructive powers, which partially reverses the flow of the Amazon river in its estuary each spring. In the context of the performance, pororoca signifies the nature’s innate transformative abilities to renew and to divert the established course into a new framework, even if through a cathartic experience.
Pororoca performance evolves around three thematically interrelated movements: Jangala, Huewomanity & Digitala. Each part is comprised of live sound and spoken word composition interchanged with performative physical actions and videos.
The work opens with Jangala, the first movement evolving around the theme of nature’s wilderness and its current ecological fragility. It is then poetically and sonically juxtaposed to Huewomanity, performance’s second part introducing the notion of balanced human interrelations and the indigenous discourse. These sonically and verbally articulated motifs further coalesce to comprise the third sub-narrative titled Digitala - an Information Technology-enabled immanent social renewal, which is symbolized by the tidal wave movement of Pororoca, the Great Roar.
The length of the work may vary depending on exhibition's context from 30 min to 1 hour.
Performance is presented within a site-specifically conceived installation with custom-built vintage sound system, jungle plants and architectural-sculptural elements.
Terminology
* Jangala translates from Sanskrit as thick vegetation or dry earth
* Huewomanity is an artistic neologism derived from English humanity
* Digitala is an artistic neologism combining Latin digit - fingers, numbers; and Sanskrit tala - palm, clapping, rhythmic (mathematical) composing.
Summary
Pororoca performance is an interdisciplinary work which I would describe as an ‘install-action,’ when a temporary environment constructed live through a series of pre-conceived, rehearsed, composed and improvised physical and sound actions.
In our approach, we consider our musical compositions which involve Indian tabla drums, electric bass and amplified voice as sculptural or percussive elements of the work overall.
To build itself formally, Pororoca performance employs structural components from both, eastern and western musical composition relying on the notions of movements, interludes, and talas. Thematically, the new lives of the two first-generation immigrants from different parts of the world to the Americas are signified throughout the performance as they discover mutual concerns, interests, and freedoms. Such confluence of lives lends the work a certain humanistic focus, which grows to become an overall underlying theme, as often revealed as it is concealed and encoded via spoken word, physical actions and sonic moods.
Employing Pororoca wave natural phenomenon as a symbol of ecological renewal, the performance seeks in its aspiration to express the wave’s impactful flow or drive, and to bring it on to the viewers the exhilarating, if at times dangerous sense of freeing.. .
p.s. our next upcoming Pororoca project is to take place on natural site of Ilha Do Marajo in the Amazon river estuary in Brazil in February 2017.
pa ra
august 2016
. . .
My fellow artist and I have been invited to present our performance at Manifesta 11 - the highly respected European Biennial of Contemporary Art which takes place this year in Zurich, Switzerland.
We are seeking to raise $2000 for our air-travel as it is not covered by the organizers.
‘Pororoca Great Roar’ is a performance-collaboration between an artist/bass player Pa Ra and an artist/percussionist Don Amit.
It focuses on the experiences of two first-generation immigrants from Eurasia as they adapt to new ways of life in New York while discovering their broader transcultural identities in the Americas.
We are eager to perform this work in Europe especially because in such volatile times, our life-long experiences as artist-immigrants in the Americas may be essential to be heard.
The main aim of Pororoca performance is educational 'knowledge production.' We hope that it will aid to better understand the contemporary conditions of some of the most disadvantaged members of our globalized societies and will seek to offer a creative alternative to a conflict-solving.
(detailed outline of our performance is given below).
donations:.
Donations of all ammounts are equally appreciated. If you can not donate, pls., share, spread the word about our campaign.
All supporters will receive a web-link to a free download to one of our musical compositions (check below).
Donors of 50usd will receive a digital image of an artwork which can work on your computer as a desktop image (see below).
Donors of 100usd will recieve a unique silkscreen print on paper.
Givers of 300usd and up, will be given a unique physical artwork - it will be a work on paper (or a wearable artwork for your loved ones!) made available upon request and only during the months of August & September - limited edition !
Thank you for your support, sincerely,
Pa Ra
Pororoca at Manifesta 11
pororoca performance sound excerpt
More information on Pororoca performance:
Pororoca Great Roar is an interdisciplinary performance, which is part of a larger series of collaborative works titled Pororoca.
The series was launched in 2006 and evolved through extensive field-artworks conducted by Pa Ra at diverse natural, archeological and urban sites, ranging from the Amazon river estuary to Mayan ceremonial grounds to the United Nations Plaza in Manhattan.
Pororoca translates as the ‘great roar' from Tupi-Guarani language, and refers to an annual natural phenomenon, a tidal wave of immense and often destructive powers, which partially reverses the flow of the Amazon river in its estuary each spring. In the context of the performance, pororoca signifies the nature’s innate transformative abilities to renew and to divert the established course into a new framework, even if through a cathartic experience.
Pororoca performance evolves around three thematically interrelated movements: Jangala, Huewomanity & Digitala. Each part is comprised of live sound and spoken word composition interchanged with performative physical actions and videos.
The work opens with Jangala, the first movement evolving around the theme of nature’s wilderness and its current ecological fragility. It is then poetically and sonically juxtaposed to Huewomanity, performance’s second part introducing the notion of balanced human interrelations and the indigenous discourse. These sonically and verbally articulated motifs further coalesce to comprise the third sub-narrative titled Digitala - an Information Technology-enabled immanent social renewal, which is symbolized by the tidal wave movement of Pororoca, the Great Roar.
The length of the work may vary depending on exhibition's context from 30 min to 1 hour.
Performance is presented within a site-specifically conceived installation with custom-built vintage sound system, jungle plants and architectural-sculptural elements.
Terminology
* Jangala translates from Sanskrit as thick vegetation or dry earth
* Huewomanity is an artistic neologism derived from English humanity
* Digitala is an artistic neologism combining Latin digit - fingers, numbers; and Sanskrit tala - palm, clapping, rhythmic (mathematical) composing.
Summary
Pororoca performance is an interdisciplinary work which I would describe as an ‘install-action,’ when a temporary environment constructed live through a series of pre-conceived, rehearsed, composed and improvised physical and sound actions.
In our approach, we consider our musical compositions which involve Indian tabla drums, electric bass and amplified voice as sculptural or percussive elements of the work overall.
To build itself formally, Pororoca performance employs structural components from both, eastern and western musical composition relying on the notions of movements, interludes, and talas. Thematically, the new lives of the two first-generation immigrants from different parts of the world to the Americas are signified throughout the performance as they discover mutual concerns, interests, and freedoms. Such confluence of lives lends the work a certain humanistic focus, which grows to become an overall underlying theme, as often revealed as it is concealed and encoded via spoken word, physical actions and sonic moods.
Employing Pororoca wave natural phenomenon as a symbol of ecological renewal, the performance seeks in its aspiration to express the wave’s impactful flow or drive, and to bring it on to the viewers the exhilarating, if at times dangerous sense of freeing.. .
p.s. our next upcoming Pororoca project is to take place on natural site of Ilha Do Marajo in the Amazon river estuary in Brazil in February 2017.
pa ra
august 2016
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Organizer
Pa Ra Detzki
Organizer
New York, NY
