The Shape of a Circle in the Dream of a Fish
26-27 November 2022
Galeria Municipal do Porto at the Galeria da Biodiversidade, Porto, Portugal
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Photo: Dinis Santos/Galeria Municipal do Porto
The fifth edition in the General Ecology series The Shape of a Circle in the Mind of a Fish kicks off with a two-day live event in Porto, Portugal, and continues online and off-site throughout winter 2022/23.
What is a sense of self, when beings and landscapes exist in states of co-evolution and co-habitation? What rituals and practices, including but not limited to scientific research, help us to re-evaluate how we share this planet?
The Shape of a Circle in the Dream of a Fish considers the complex and multilayered question of dream life across species boundaries – reflecting on scientific advances in animal and plant consciousness, as well as shamanic and mystical encounters with them. Working to dissolve disciplinary binaries and encourage exchange between epistemologies, we are interested in asking questions and sharing stories that can challenge the anthropocentric paradigms that hold things in place.
Participants include: architect Yussef Agbo-Ola (Olaniyi Studio), philosopher Federico Campagna, psychologist and cognition researcher Nicola S. Clayton, artist and writer Onome Ekeh, artist and performer Cru Encarnação, behavioural ecologist Alex Jordan, religious historian Sophie Lunn-Rockliffe, artist and musician Nahum Mantra, vocal performer Hatis Noit, artist Giles Round, and artist and architect Rain Wu.
A programme of film screenings took place on 27 November in Porto, featuring the following moving-image works:
Mariana Caló and Francisco Queimadela, Palomacia, 2022
Rosalind Fowler, all is leaf, so to amplify the wonder, 2020
Derek Jarman, A Journey to Avebury, 1971
Dominique Knowles, Talequah, 2019
Ben Rivers, Ljen, London, 2022
Himali Singh Soin, Ritual Telepathy at the Relic Chamber, 2019
Hatis Noit. Photo: Dinis Santos/Galeria Municipal do Porto
Rain Wu. Photo: Dinis Santos/Galeria Municipal do Porto
Onome Ekeh. Photo: Dinis Santos/Galeria Municipal do Porto