D06 → place matter(s)
How might we discover new ways of relating to a symbolic space and all its matter(s)? Florinda Camilleri and Abigail Agius address this question through a mixed media installation and performance video which expose their process of interdisciplinary research carried out in Castille Place between November 2021 and January 2022. This collaboration entangles with Camilleri’s artistic-academic research into non-anthropocentric ways of being-within Maltese landscapes.
In place matter(s), Agius and Camilleri intra-act with feminist posthumanist theory as an alternate position from which to learn, think, and be within the complex layers at play in Castille Place. Through visual art and sited dance practices, the place’s matter(s) are encountered, touched, listened to, questioned, danced with, strung together, cared for, and speculated upon. Matter(s) are then re-materialised through drawings, maps, photos, text, textile, and video. At the core of this process lies their desire to disrupt standard ways of being-with the world, so as to discover alternate narratives, joyful histories and possibilities of being otherwise.
Artistic Direction, Research & Performance - Florinda Camilleri
Collaborator - Abigail Agius
Photography, Filming & Editing - Niels Plotard
Curators - Margerita Pule’, Elise Pisani
Presented as part of The Ordinary Lives of Women exhibition, in the Art + Feminism program of Spazju Kreattiv, Valletta, Malta