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Contributors
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First Name
Melanie
Surname or Business Name
Bonajo
Years Affiliated
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2018
Birth Date
1978
Birthplace
Netherlands
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Artist
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<strong>Melanie Bonajo</strong><span>’s (Netherlands/United States) work examines the paradoxes inherent to ideas of comfort with a strong sense for community, equality, and body‐politics. Through her videos, performances, photographs, and installations, she studies subjects related to how technological advances and commodity-based pleasures increase feelings of alienation, removing a sense of belonging in an individual. Captivated by concepts of the divine, Bonajo explores the spiritual emptiness of her generation, examines peoples’ shifting relationship with nature and tries to understand existential questions by reflecting on our domestic situation, ideas around classification, concepts of home, gender, and attitudes towards value.</span>
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Library
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None
None
Contributor Type
Filmmaker
Theme
Place.Labour.Capital.
Climates. Habitats. Environments.
None
Climates. Habitats. Environments.
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United States
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Melanie Bonajo
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Feminism
Technology
Modernity
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Melanie Bonajo
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Short Description
This screening series features artist videos, documentaries, and filmic essays that examine how the image and the sonic create immersive ways for multiple sensorial elements to come together and form a singular space.
Programme Type
Screening
Location
Onsite (CCA)
Offsite
Online
Onsite (CCA)
Collaboration
No
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No
Education
No
Theme
Place.Labour.Capital.
Climates. Habitats. Environments.
None
Climates. Habitats. Environments.
Audience
General
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Special Screening: Maybe I hadn’t been paying attention
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<div class="event_single_dates text__exhibitions">8 Jun 2018, Fri 07:30 PM - 09:00 PM</div>
<div class="event_single_venue">The Single Screen, Block 43 Malan Road</div>
<br />Inspired by Tarek Atoui’s current exhibition <i>The Ground: From the Land to the Sea</i> at NTU CCA Singapore, this screening series features artist videos, documentaries, and filmic essays that examine how the image and the sonic create immersive ways for multiple sensorial elements to come together and form a singular space. <i>Maybe I hadn’t been paying attention</i> is further guided by the Centre’s overarching research topic CLIMATES. HABITATS. ENVIRONMENTS. by focusing on artistic interpretations that reflect our present-day ecology, bringing attention to global issues we tend to overlook, and by observing how we navigate different environments, particularly through aural perception.<br /><br /><p><span><strong>SELECTIONS</strong></span></p>
<p><strong><em>Night Soil — Nocturnal Gardening</em></strong><br /><strong>Melanie Bonajo, 2016, 49 min 47 sec</strong></p>
<p><em>Nocturnal Gardening</em> portrays a group of women living by alternative norms who have each, on their own, established communities. The women stand for sensitivity, connection, and communication with other communities, plants, animals, and elements. They attune their energy to the ecosystem around them with an enhanced sensibility. They are friends with the Earth and dependent members of the community of Nature. They explore new ways of togetherness and do so in a pragmatic, personal way. This film is a conversion of human psychic content into an imagery that enhances our moral landscape for our own decision making, in terms of ecology and interdependent values, as well as in the care for ourselves, our neighbours, and our earth.<br /><br /></p>
<p><strong><em>Sounds from Beneath</em></strong><strong> </strong><br /><strong>Mikhail Karikis & Uriel Orlow, 2010–11, 6 min 41 sec</strong></p>
<p>In <em>Sounds from Beneath</em>, a desolate disused colliery in East Kent, once populated with workers, machines, and the sounds of their activities, is brought back to life through song. The video centres around a choral piece for which Mikhail Karikis invites an ex-miners’ choir to recall and sing the subterranean sounds of a working coal mine. It transforms into an amphitheatre resonating sounds of explosions in the ground, machines cutting the coal-face, shovels scratching the earth, and the distant melody of the Miner’s Lament, all sung by Snowdown Colliery Welfare Male Voice Choir grouping in formations reminiscent of picket lines.</p>
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2018-06-08
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Melanie Bonajo
Mikhail Karikis
Uriel Orlow
Coverage
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Europe
North America
Subject
The topic of the resource
Ecology
Nature
Performance