Anthropology & Art
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Perennial Mediations
Multispecies Imaginaries: The Art of Living in an Uncertain, Contingent World
Curatorial Project
As part of my involvement with the ON MEDIATION platform, I'm a junior curator under lead curator, Christian Alonso, for this multimedia exhibition at La Capella.I also co-authored a piece titled "cultivating a multispecies sensibility: a graphic guide."
Photo essay
Members of the Naqshbandi Haqqani Sufi order often "stamp the earth with the name of God" (Werbner, 1996), meaning they sacralize, through the performance of salat (prayer), otherwise secular spaces. In this case, the space is a half-empty parking lot on highway E-5 from Sevilla to Madrid.
Exhibited at the Shared Sacred Project at the University of Cambridge.
Documentary
(2018) A 14-min ethnographic documentary about the zikr, the continuous chanting of the 99 names of God in Sufism.
Gifs
Rhythms of sounds and bodily movement align in ecstatic moments of Faan'a, the Sufi concept of the elimination of ego in the love of god.
Photo essay
Master-disciple relationship, a link in a chain that connects contemporary Sufis to the Prophet.
Speculations on Islamic Sonic-Aeolic Cosmotechnics
Text and sounds
Working together with Anthropologist of Technology Chakad Ojani on a project for the Fragmentary Institute of Comparative Timelines. I created an experimental ethnographic recording from a place in a timeline that does not exist, beyond EuroAmerican modernity.
Ph.D. Project
Contemporary secular spiritual practices of conscious dance integrate music in the pursuit of connection. How do students of Ecstatic Dance conceive, operationalize and deal with this mediating relationship?
Video (6 mins)
A collaboration with dancer Eva Trapeznicova. An exploration in the anthropology of the body and media perspectives of religion.
Arte Vital (en español)
Images and videos
Arte Vital is an ongoing artistic collaboration with dancer and Gestalt therapist Faust Espejel. These are a series of videos and photos of various ceremonies and rituals involving life and death, taking place in Barcelona and in the surrounding territories.
Photo essay & short video
Exploration of the relationship between embodied practices like dancing, and spiritual pursuits in/out of western modernity in "spirituality" festivals in northern Spain.
Punjab em Portugal
Photo essay & sound recordings
A portraiture series and sound recordings of interviews done with Punjabi farmers living in the small rural town of Odemira, in the south of Portugal, done in collaboration with photographer Kat Puchowska.
A selection of my travel photographs.
A collection of Live sets that I mix as a DJ-Facilitator for Ecstatic Dance.