Nature Meditation, Screening, and Discussion

About the works and artists:

“I’ve Got to Tell You Something,” 20 minutes, by Amanda Maciel Antunes (aka dama)

“I’ve Got to Tell You Something” by Amanda Maciel Antunes (aka dama) is a unique, 90-foot work of performance art/sculptural cloth engendered by the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown. It is a portrait of an action of resistance and an appeal to the intention of memory and stillness.

Antunes is a Brazilian artist based in Los Angeles. Her transdisciplinary practice merges language and durational performance to create paintings, photography, sculpture, sound, film, and assemblage. She is an autodidact and works in collaboration with public libraries, nature, and shared spaces as points of departure, reflecting on the selective nature of memory, inherent language and anthropological references. Antunes has shown nationally and internationally and recently published her book Second Birth with HEXENTEXTE, a Los Angeles-based feminist project. She is also a librarian at the Philosophical Research Society, where she hosts a monthly study group on women Surrealists.

Website: amandamacielantunes.net / IG @amandamacielantunes

Terrestrial screening (5min.) and Nature Meditation (30 min. activity), by Faith Johnson

Terrestrial is a series of intimately ethereal moments with the natural world. All shot on an iphone during ritual practices of meditative engagement with a sensitivity to the subtle language of the more-than-human world. It is meant to privilege the perspective of the Earth with the human presence blending gently into the landscape. Terrestrial highlights the complex magic that surrounds us and our interconnection - not only physically - but emotionally and spiritually to this biosphere.

The accompanying Nature Meditation is a guided activity to connect with the consciousness of the natural world through observation, meditation, and reflection.

Faith Johnson is an interdisciplinary artist working with communal and individual visioning, alternative forms of knowledge, intuition, extrasensory perception, and communication with the sentience of the natural world. She is interested in revealing the magic and beingness of Earth through deep listening to the subtle languages of nature. Johnson explores these concepts in her interactive installations and experiences, participatory processes, performative actions, and videos. Her work is an invitation to engage the collective imagination in perceiving and cultivating our more subtle connections to each other and the natural world."

www.FaithJohnson.net / Instagram: @WaterKeepersLibrary / www.facebook.com/FaithJohnsonWaterMuseum/

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