Abstract
Berwick Film and Media Arts Festival UK Prof May Adadol Ingawanij's curated section entitled Animistic Apparatus.
The Migrant Ecologies Project is a collaborative project that brings together various art practice-led inquiries into questions of culture and nature in Southeast Asia. Animistic Apparatus presents two installations—Railtrack Songmaps and Teak Road—from the Singaporean project.
Railtrack Songmaps is a multimedia assemblage of relations between people and birds along the rail-tracks at Tanglin Halt, a historic quarter of urban Singapore undergoing social and environmental change. This iteration releases the stories, bird calls and Malay pantun poetry into Berwick’s old jail cells.
Teak Road contains hand-animated print-fragments of a teak bed found in a Singapore junk store. A project on memories of wood, trees and people, the film traces material, genetic, historic and poetic journeys of this bed to the site of the original tree through DNA tracking technology.
The Migrant Ecologies Project is a collaborative project that brings together various art practice-led inquiries into questions of culture and nature in Southeast Asia. Animistic Apparatus presents two installations—Railtrack Songmaps and Teak Road—from the Singaporean project.
Railtrack Songmaps is a multimedia assemblage of relations between people and birds along the rail-tracks at Tanglin Halt, a historic quarter of urban Singapore undergoing social and environmental change. This iteration releases the stories, bird calls and Malay pantun poetry into Berwick’s old jail cells.
Teak Road contains hand-animated print-fragments of a teak bed found in a Singapore junk store. A project on memories of wood, trees and people, the film traces material, genetic, historic and poetic journeys of this bed to the site of the original tree through DNA tracking technology.
| Original language | English |
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| Place of Publication | Berwick-upon-Tweed |
| Publisher | Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival |
| Media of output | Film |
| Publication status | Published - Sept 2019 |
| MoE publication type | F1 Published independent work of art or performance |
| Event | Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival - Berwick-upon-Tweed, United Kingdom Duration: 19 Sept 2019 → 22 Sept 2019 https://www.bfmaf.org/programme/2019/exhibitions |
Keywords
- Art and Ecology
- Animisms
- Experimental Cinema
- Installation
- Urban Ecologies
- Migrant Ecologies
- Humans and Birds
- Humans and Trees
Field of art
- Film
- Contemporary art