MauMau Blood Dreams pursues the origins of story. From neolithic Galicia, where symbols were carved in rocks that recorded hunts, conflicts and stories, that later became savage folktales, to France where they were re-written in the 17th century as stylish dream-like, magic fairytales with happy endings. Still, the original folktales continue to influence culture. They reveal a more brutal consciousness than we believed we had. Why do we keep telling ourselves the same stories?
“The folktale is the primer of the picture-language of the soul.” Joseph Campbell.
FILM
Moon is a Dagger, Die Leere Mitte. Revista Procedimentum.
Red Hood, JokerJokerTV 08:36.
POSTCARDS
Collage, photography. Series of eight archival pigment prints, matte heavyweight paper. 12.7 x 17.7 cm., 5 x 7 inches.
Contemplates human relationships with the natural environment. The title is attributed to the legendary Tang era (618–907) Dao-poets Shide and Han Shan, two hermits living in nature, depicted laughing and pointing at the moon in Asian painting for centuries. Poet Gary Snyder’s 1950’s translations of selected Cold Mountain poems, and characterisation of the hermit, are realised in Jack Kerouac’s 1958 novel, The Dharma Bums.
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Cold Mountain Moon at Arteidolia Press NY, Rafael Gonzalez music. 38th Stuttgarter Filmwinter Festival, Stuttgart, Germany, January 15 - 22, 2025
Hunters Heart at Ranger Magazine, Rafael Gonzalez music. Dialogue At The Rivers, LOSDOK, Amsterdam, 2023
Surfers Soul at Ranger Magazine, Hal McGee, Rafael Gonzalez music.
Farmers World, Speech Index music.
...asks, ‘Are we ready?’ What are our notions of space? Can we accept varied life forms, and transformations and challenges to our bodies and minds?
FILM
No One Speaks of Lorette, Vulcan Ironworks music, at Otoliths.
My Bot Dancing 2the End, Diana Magallon music, at Otoliths.
There is Void, Jonathan Minton poem, Diana Magallon music, at Word for /Word.
Time is Untape, Jeff Crouch text, Diana Magallon music. March 2025 at Word for /Word.
Friday Night, Golden Estella and Valentin Narvaez music.
Cornflakes Hullabaloo, Vulcan Ironworks music, at Otoliths.
Hinchinarfer, Vulcan Ironworks music, Jeff Crouch designs, at Otoliths.
Shinzo Co-Star, gif-book, at Otoliths.
Null (result) &Void, gif-book. March 2025 at Word for /Word.
Proposes radical dream-based practices for earth and solar system commons stewardship and the future of humanity. In this moment of increasing planetary crisis, Planet of Dreams suggests alternative practices: native land processes, mythology, speculative-futures architectural schemes, magic, Shaman practice, Jungian dream work, poetry, time-based works, asemic code, and conceptual performance. How can the dream state guide us?
FILM
Goose Moon Owl, Cecelia Chapman sound, at Arteidolia Press NY.
Nuclear Forest, Jeff Crouch music, Calamari Press.
Wolf Queen, Jeff Crouch music, at Arteidolia Press NY.
Magic Dream, Diana Magallon and Gabriel Valecillos music, at Arteidolia Press NY.
Nomad Dreams, the Sorceress, the Flying Saucer and the Moon, Jeff Crouch music, at Video Sound Archive.
Last Time Tomorrow, at Otoliths. The One, International Digital Art Biennale, Toru, Poland, 2024. Suszarnia Gallery, Włocławek, Poland, November 22, 2024 - January 25, 2025.
DreamTown USA, Jeff Crouch music, poetry, at Calamari press.
Dream Come True, Cecelia Chapman sound.
SpaceLife Dreams, Jeff Crouch music.
The Dream Collector. Book, photography, collected dreams, at Otoliths.
Oracle Books. Two books, drawing, personal print stamps, stab binding.
I Have Known Rivers. Series of 3 watercolors.
Shaman Trees. Series of 4 photographs.
Vacation culture, consciousness and capitalism. The marketing of holiday. The vacation migration is compared to early nomadic tribes led by their shaman on the tracks of game. But now, the game pursued is a state of mind advanced by corporate interests to produce a workers' consciousness tolerant of capitalist slavery.
The selling of adventure absent in workers regulated lives, the colonisation of vacation areas, worker migration, and the use of nostalgia and memory to control workers’ minds are examined. A nomadic shamanic consciousness is proposed, anima mundi, connection to nature, mindfulness of the interconnectedness of all.
Club Paradise: don’t be a tourist @Interalia Magazine.
FILM
Moon on Fire Meditation, Habitat - Nonstop, Amsterdam 2024
Race the Sun Meditation, Jeff Crouch music, at Compostxt.
Cabo Peligro, Rafael Gonzalez music, at Interalia Magazine.
Welcome, Cecelia Chapman sound.
Last Exit, Jeff Crouch music, at Interalia Magazine.
Tears in the Night, Jeff Crouch music, at Tip of the Knife.
Club Paradise, Blaine Reininger music, at Interalia Magazine.
Trouble in Club Paradise. Series of 12 polaroid photographs reimagine notorious vacations on Lake Wequaquet.
Mail collaboration series of 13 postcards: Posted with Rafael Gonzalez at Utsanga. Sent with Jeff Crouch at UnlikelyStories.
Series of 6 photographs of tourist activities: Bone Tree, Adventure Park, Pirates Cove, Skull Island, Float Choices.
Cruise Collection tshirts: Don't Be A Tourist and Memories Are Made Here.
A short film anthology of 11 Chapters by Berlin based American composer Sean Derrick Cooper Marquardt. Produced and filmed by Cecelia Chapman. The collaboration explores the interplay between Chapman's video interpretation of Marquardt's subtle drone compositions and titles that address what it is to be human in the age of the drone. Chapman interprets Marquardt’s original titles to question the militarisation and commodification of knowledge, and the friction between technology corporations and local communities on the San Francisco Peninsula and Silicon Valley.
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Cotuit Center for the Arts, Chapter 1 and 10, selected film 2007- 2021, 2021
TimeSpecific, Chapter 11, 2021
Acud Macht Neu, Berlin, Drone Drama: Music for the Dead, 2020
Loophole Berlin, Chapter 10, 2018
Primal Uproar III, Hamburg, Germany, Chapter 10, 2018
Interalia Magazine, Chapter 9, 2017
Magmart Video Festival 10, Drone Drama: Music for the Dead, 2017
Traumathek, Cologne, Germany, Drone Drama: Music for the Dead, 2017
UnlikelyStories, Chapter 8, 2016
Red Fez, Chapter 1, 2016
SlowForward, Chapter 10, 2016
DotsWaves TV, London, Chapter 3, 2016
UnlikelyStories, Chapter 6, 2016