MINU _ festival for expanded music | www.minufestival.com Eclipse | 26.11 20.00 | Ku.be.
An eclipse heralds the end of another world, among multiple extinctions. When the moon devours the Sun it is feared that night will prevail forever and the Tzitzimimes will descend to Earth to eat up men.
We embark with an evening that chronicles American histories and mythologies. The event is book-ended by performances of two narrative, graphic scores by Raven Chacon, while Naomi Rincón-Gallardo's three short-films that comprise The Tzizime Trilogy serve as the centerpiece.
American Ledger No. 1 is a narrative score for performance, telling the creation story of the founding of the United States of America. In chronological descending order, moments of contact, enactment of laws, events of violence, the building of cities, and erasure of land and worldview are mediated through graphic notation, and realized by sustaining and percussive instruments, coins, axe and wood, a police whistle, and a match.
The Tzitzimime were female deities in Aztec mythology. As such, they were related to fertility and rainfall, yet feared for their ability to descend to Earth and devour men during solar eclipses, when it was feared that darkness would prevail forever. Powerful Mesoamerican deities play central roles in Rincón-Gallardo's films, in which pre-Hispanic cosmology meets queer futurity in a bleak landscape of planetary cataclysm. Her films' characters are born out of local and planetary ecological emergencies, current and historic injustice and patriarchal oppression, carrying no illusion of a "bright" future:
Adapted to the ruins
We don't demand a future
We metabolize toxins
one more dose of cyanide!
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An eclipse heralds the end of another world, among multiple extinctions. When the moon devours the Sun it is feared that night will prevail forever and the Tzitzimimes will descend to Earth to eat up men.
We embark with an evening that chronicles American histories and mythologies. The event is book-ended by performances of two narrative, graphic scores by Raven Chacon, while Naomi Rincón-Gallardo's three short-films that comprise The Tzizime Trilogy serve as the centerpiece.
American Ledger No. 1 is a narrative score for performance, telling the creation story of the founding of the United States of America. In chronological descending order, moments of contact, enactment of laws, events of violence, the building of cities, and erasure of land and worldview are mediated through graphic notation, and realized by sustaining and percussive instruments, coins, axe and wood, a police whistle, and a match.
The Tzitzimime were female deities in Aztec mythology. As such, they were related to fertility and rainfall, yet feared for their ability to descend to Earth and devour men during solar eclipses, when it was feared that darkness would prevail forever. Powerful Mesoamerican deities play central roles in Rincón-Gallardo's films, in which pre-Hispanic cosmology meets queer futurity in a bleak landscape of planetary cataclysm. Her films' characters are born out of local and planetary ecological emergencies, current and historic injustice and patriarchal oppression, carrying no illusion of a "bright" future:
Adapted to the ruins
We don't demand a future
We metabolize toxins
one more dose of cyanide!
Entré: 150 kr
