[spectre] The CIRCA project

[Fernando Velázquez]

*THE CIRCA PROJECT________________________________________________*


OPEN CALL


*Circa*

from Latin

around/about/roughly/approximately

abb] ca. or c.


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IT WAS IN THOSE DAYS THAT WE INFECTED TIME.

THE STREETS BECAME EMPTY, THE SKY RECOVERED THE BLUE, SILENCE FALL OVER
CITIES AND LIVES.


WHO AM I?

WHO ARE WE?


QUARANTINE OF DESIRE.

IS THIS AN END, OR A NEW BEGINNING?

COCOON.

METAMORPHOSIS.

LOOP.


*Tarquisiómines*, Éfeso, 11 BC-ca.


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CIRCA, ADVERB OF THE UNCERTAINTY.  FLOATING TIME/PLACE.


FOR US, SAPIENS OF THE 2020, MORE THAN EVER, TIME IS SUBJECTIVE.

MORE THAN EVER FUTURE MEANS NEXT HOUR.

MORE THAN EVER FUTURE IS UNCERTAIN.


BUT IN A  WORLD SATURATED BY CONTRADICTIONS AND INEQUALITIES, UNCERTAINTY
DOESN'T NECESSARILY HAVE A NEGATIVE BIAS.

IT CAN BE A TIME OF REBIRTH AS INDIVIDUALS AND AS A COLLECTIVE OR IT CAN BE
AN INSIGNIFICANT PAUSE TO ALL START AGAIN AS IT WAS.


URUGUAYAN WRITER EDUARDO GALEANO
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9iqi1oaKvzs> CREDITS TO FERNANDO BIRRI,
AN ARGENTINIAN FILM DIRECTOR, THE IDEA THAT UTOPIA IS ON THE HORIZON,
THEREFORE IT IS UNREACHABLE, BECAUSE EVERY TIME WE GIVE A STEP AHEAD IT
ALSO MOVES A STEP FURTHER. THE MORE WE SEEK FOR IT, MORE IT ESCAPES US. SO,
WHAT IS UTOPIA FOR?, BIRRI SAYS: IT IS FOR WALKING.


AFTER THE DEFEAT OF SOUTH AMERICAN DICTATORSHIPS, IN THE EARLY 80’, GALEANO
CLAIMS FOR THE RIGHT TO DREAM AND DELIRIUM. 40 YEARS LATER, DAVI KOPENAWA*,
PAJÉ (SHAMAN) OF THE YANOMAMI TRIBE OF THE BRAZILIAN RAIN FOREST ADVICE THE
FALLING SKY, AND AILTON KRENAK**, OTHER INDIGENOUS LEADERSHIP, SUGGESTS
IDEAS TO DELAY THE END OF THE WORLD.


KOPENAWA QUESTIONS THE NOTION OF PROGRESS AND DEVELOPMENT ADVOCATED BY "THE
COMMODITY PEOPLE” AKA THE WHITE MAN. AFTER 30 YEARS OF FIGHTING FOR THE
FREEDOM OF HIS PEOPLE, FOR THE RIGHT TO KEEP HIS CULTURE ALIVE AND FOR THE
SURVIVAL OF THE RAIN FOREST, HE BELIEVED THAT WE ARE ALREADY LATE, MAY BE
TOO LATE, TO AVOID THE FALL OF THE SKY. FOR SHURE, FOR HIS PEOPLE, IT WAS
ALWAYS LATE.


IN TURN, KRENAK REJECTS THE IDEA OF HUMANITY AS SOMETHING SEPARATE FROM
NATURE (HYPOSTESIS VERIFIED IN LESS THAN A MONTH OF HUMAN INACTIVITY) AND
CLAIMS FOR THE RETURN TO THE ANCESTRAL KNOWLEDGE.


YORUBA PEOPLE DOESN’T NEED CIRCA ADVERB, FOR ALWAYS THEY KNEW THAT TIME IS
MULTIDIMENSIONAL. WHITE PEOPLE SPENT HUNDRED OF YEARS TO DISCOVER THAT, AND
ARE STILL NOT AWARE ABOUT WHAT THIS COMPLEX WAY OF UNDERSTANDING EXISTENCE
MEANS AND HOW TO PRACTICE IT IN THE EVERYDAY LIFE.


TODAY, NOT TODAY CIRCA, TODAY, I MEAN, AT THIS MINUTE, AT THIS SECOND, WE
ARE ALL CHARACTERS IN A  DYSTOPIC FILM IN WHICH WE ARE DEPRIVED OF OUR
GREATEST GOOD, THE POSSIBILITY OF BEING TOGETHER. FAKE NEWS, DEEP FAKE,
FAKE FAKE NEWS, TONS OF DATA BUT NEVER SO MUCH, MEANT SO LITTLE.


RELAX THE STRINGS OF TIME AND LIVING FLANING AMONG DIVERSE, PARADOXAL,
COMPLEMENTARY COSMOLOGIES AND BELIEFS, RECALL AND UPDATE ANCESTRAL
KNOWLEDGE AS A WAY TO EXPAND OUR CONSCIOUSNESS, PERHAPS IS THE ONLY WAY TO
POSTPONE THE END OF THE WORLD.


IN DARK TIMES WHEN SCIENCE IS BEING DISCREDITED, BRAZILIAN NEUROCIENTIST
SIDARTA RIBEIRO REVEALS THE HISTORY OF DREAMING, ELUCIDATING THE ROLE OF
DREAMS IN HUMAN EXISTENCE. THEIR RELATIONSHIP WITH THE ORIGIN OF BELIEFS,
WITH HEALTH, AND WITH THE POTENTIAL OF TRANSFORMATION RELATED TO THE
ABILITY TO PLAN AND TEST POSSIBLE FUTURES. THE CONTRIBUTIONS OF RIBEIRO AND
THE HUNDREDS OF SCIENTISTS ASSOCIATED IN THIS RESEARCH, ALSO UPDATES
FREUD'S IDEAS, PROPOSING ANALOGIES BETWEEN THE BRAIN PARTS, AND THE
RESPECTIVE FUNCTIONS THAT WOULD BE ASSOCIATED WITH THE AUTHOR'S THEORIES.


"DREAM ENABLES THE INTERFACE BETWEEN YESTERDAY AND TOMORROW, WITH THE
POTENTIAL TO STRONGLY IMPACT THE DREAMER WITH EVERY AWAKE. THEREFORE, IT’S
PLAUSIBLE THAT THE PROPERLY HUMAN CONSCIOUSNESS, WITH ITS HUGE CAPACITY TO
NARRATE THE PAST TO IMAGINE THE FUTURE, DERIVED FROM THE INVASION OF THE
VIGIL BY DREAM. THE DREAMS SHOULD HAVE BEEN THE FIRST MENTAL SPACE FOR
SIMULATING IDEAS.

LONG BEFORE OUR ANCESTRALS LEARNED TO DO THIS WHEN AWAKE.

THE GRADUAL EXPANSION OF THE ABILITY TO TELL STORIES AND TRAVEL MENTALLY IN
TIME WAS THE FUEL OF HUMAN CULTURAL EXPLOSION IN THE LAST MILLENNIUMS."


THE CIRCA PROJECT INVITES ARTISTS, PHILOSOPHERS, WRITERS AND SYMPATHIZERS
TO REFLECT, COMMENT, COMPLAINT, SHARE IDEAS IN THE FORM OF IMAGE, VIDEO,
TEXT, AUDIO, BOOKS, LINKS, FILTERS FOR SOCIAL NETWORKS, VIRTUAL AND
AUGMENTED REALITY TANGENT TO THE FOLDS OF THE ADVERB CIRCA. AN INVITATION
TO THINK AND CREATE NO-PLACES, CALVINIAN INVISIBLE CITIES, BORGEAN
LIBRARIES, NEW AND BABYLON CITIES, NOMAD SUBJECTIVITIES.


LET SHARE ANGUISH, FEARS, HOPE, LOVE,  LET LEARN FROM EACH OTHER, LET
BELIEVE, LET'S RETHINK THE PAST, THE PRESENT AND THE FUTURE FROM OTHER
ECOLOGIES, LET'S EXPLORE THE PLACEBO EFFECT OF LANGUAGE AS A HEALING POWER,
LET’S DREAM, LET’S WALK.


THE CONTRIBUTIONS WILL BE PUBLISHED ON THE WEBSITE, INSTAGRAM AND FACEBOOK
OF THE PROJECT.


BY THE END OF THE LAST QUARANTINE, Ca, AN EXHIBITION AND BOOK OF THIS
COLLECTIVE REPOSITORY OF 2020 ZEITGEIST  MAY BE ACCOMPLISHED BY CROWDFUNDING
.


*

https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674724686


**

https://www.companhiadasletras.com.br/detalhe.php?codigo=14722


***

https://www.companhiadasletras.com.br/detalhe.php?codigo=14471


*TECHNICAL INFO*


*IMAGES *W 2000PX MAX/H 1500Px MIN/ RGB/JPG, PNG, AN.GIF/1.5KMB MAX.

*VIDEO *1280 X 720/30FPS MAX/15 SECONDS/MP4

LARGEST MATERIAL CAN BE SENT AS A YOUTUBE OR VIMEO LINK.

*TEXT *160 CHARACTERS MAX (STATEMENT) 0R 2500 CH (MICRO ESSAY). ANY
LANGUAGE. ENGLISH TRANSLATION MUST BE SENT.

*SOUND *1 MINUTE MAX/MP3

LARGEST MATERIAL CAN BE SENT AS A SOUNDCLOUD OR BANDCAMP LINK.

*BOOK/DOCUMENT *PDF/5MB MAX

*LINK *WEBSITE ADDRESS

*PLAYLIST* LINK

*VR/AR/SOCIAL NETWORKS FILTERS/ ETC/ *PLEASE SEND  AN E-MAIL


*1 ITEM PER ARTIST*


*PLEASE SEND YOUR CONTRIBUTIONS TO*

the.circa.project.call[at]gmail[.]com


*Subject:* artist name, artwork name (otherwise will be credited as
"untitled"), city (ca.), country (ca.), year (ca.)


*Include*

Artist's website & instagram accoint and other info you want.


*By submitting material your series you authorize the publication on the
project’s website and social networks and confirm authorship.*
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