MÍMESIS (Dreams, animals and tuning forks)
Asian Premiere
Julián Galay Argentina, Germany 2024 45 min No Rating
A performance lecture that draws unexpected connections between animal behaviours and human systems of knowledge.
MÍMESIS is a performance lecture that consolidates six years of research about the relationship between animals and institutions that Galay conducted for his film Intersections. Personal reflections are interwoven with artistic and scientific theories in a poetically associative way, accompanied by site-specific resonant vibrations performed by the artist. The polyphony of sounds and voices created invites the audience to participate in a moment of solidarity by thinking and listening.
Galay draws connections between the artistic representation of animals and the history of language, as well as between the presence of acoustic phenomena in nature and evolved forms of communication. Dreams and the unconscious become a place where humans, animals and other species can find common ground through their memories and lived realities. In Galay’s conception, mimesis is more than representation through imitation – it is a creative practice that generates new ways of being and imagining.
Synopsis Writer: Sam I-shan
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28 Nov, Fri 7:00PM / 159 min
Oldham Theatre
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MÍMESIS (Dreams, animals and tuning forks)
MÍMESIS (Sueños, animales y diapasones)
Julián Galay
Argentina, Germany
2024
Spanish
45 min
No Rating
Asian Premiere
Julián Galay
Filmmaker and musician Julián Galay works across image, sound and language. His films and performances explore the hidden life of architecture and science, linking them to the postnatural. He collaborates with film collective Antes Muerto Cines and co-directs music label Sello Postal. Intersections premiered at FIDMarseille and MÍMESIS is commissioned by MACBA in Barcelona and the Institut for Postnatural Studies.
Julián Galay
