Anabela Veloso, circled, around 2023. Photo: Anabela Veloso.
Press release, January 2022
circled, around is the last part of the participatory-266-days durational performance initiated in circled. circled was an installation at “Afgang 2022” on April-May 2022 at Kunsthal Charlottenborg, where visitors were invited to scoop some soil into a bag, take it and nurture it temporarily. circled, around is the moment that gathers the artist and the participants that took this score forward.
Speculating on possible relations created during this period and the meanings that soil might have gained, this gathering appears as a collective sharing of known, dreamt, or unthinkable ways of relating. Holding a fragment of soil, upholding the responsibilities that the gesture might request in the best way one knows, and returning it in a closing ceremony.
Anabela Veloso is an artist relocated from Portugal, living in Copenhagen/Malmö. Her current practice and research delve into relationality and the responsibilities within it – understanding where and how something lives to suggestively create, speak, and listen together. Anabela explores the self, the human, and the more-than-human as ecologies that expand circles of relations.
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circled, around er den sidste del af en 266 dage lang deltagelsesperformance indledt i circled. circled var en installation ved afgangsudstillingen 2022 på Kunsthal Charlottenborg, hvor besøgende blev inviteret til at skovle lidt jord i en pose, tage den med hjem og midlertidig pleje og passe den. circled, around er titlen på aftenens performance og bliver det øjeblik, der samler kunstneren og deltagerne, der først tog del i ceremonien.
Ved at overveje de mulige relationer, der er skabt i den 266 dage lange periode, og de betydninger jord mellemtiden kan have fået, optræder denne samling som en kollektiv deling af kendte, drømte eller utænkelige måder at forholde sig på. Samlingen indrammer forløbet fra at bære et fragment af jord, opretholdelse af ansvaret som gestussen anmoder om, og returnere det i en afsluttende ceremoni.
Anabela Veloso (1992) er en kunstner fra Portugal bosiddende i København/Malmö. Hendes nuværende praksis og forskning dykker ned i det relationelle og det iboende ansvar i dette og søger at forstå hvor og hvordan noget lever for at skabe, tale og lytte sammen. Anabela undersøger selvet, mennesket og det mere-end-mennesket som økologier der udvider cirkler af relationer.
Day: 11th January, 2023. Time: 17-18.30.
Place: Kunsthal Charlottenborg (Cinema Room).
Requirements: a bag of soil [This event is for participants that attended circled at “Afgang 2022” exhibition April-May 2022]. Free admission. Facebook Event.