Video Installation: One Tree
Performance Studies visiting scholar Katia Maciel will present two video installations alongside collecive poetry in two performances with the Emily Harvey Foundation.
Two Trees // by Katia Maciel
Centering on trees, Brazilian artist and poet Katia Maciel will be presenting multimedia performances at the Emily Harvey Foundation on two events, May 10 and May 14, 2022.
In dialogue with an action by Fluxus artists George Maciunas and Jonas Mekas—who planted trees in the industrial streets of Soho in 1968—Katia Maciel will present two video installations complemented by collective poetry reading and experimental sound. "Two Trees" enacts planting through the reading of poems centered on trees.
May 10, 6:30–8:30 pm
Video Installation: One Tree
A tree breaths in and out in a motionless landscape.
With the performative reading of poets from New York and Rio de Janeiro of a collective poem
May 14, 5–8:30 pm
Video Installation: Track
An infinitive travelling shot of a softly gliding tree trunk.
With the participation of two musicians and poets performing inside and outside the building
Katia Maciel is an artist, a poet and a Full professor at Federal University of Rio de Janeiro and a Visiting Scholar at New York University. She holds a PhD in Brazilian cinema and a Post-PhD on film installation. She works and researches at the intersection of art, cinema and poetry always in relation to a performing body. She is the author of Poet, Hero and Idiot: The cinema thinking in Brazil (2000) and editor of Cinema Yes (2008), Transcinemas (2009), co-editor of Poetry and Video Art (2013), The idea of cinema on Brazilian contemporary art (2020) among others. She also published six books of poems, the last one is entitled Slides, launched in 2021. She teaches courses on Brazilian contemporary art and poetry-performances. Her films, installations and performances were exhibited in museums and galleries in many countries, including, solo shows at Museum of Modern Art in Rio de Janeiro (Rio de Janeiro), Paço das Artes (São Paulo), Maison Européenne de la Photographie (Paris), Fundación Telefonica (Buenos Aires) and Museum de la Tertulia (Cali).
If you’re interested in participating please email Katia directly at: kmacieltoledo@gmail.com
