Solar light-beings

Abstract

A video art piece, an audiovisual experiment, a solar fabulation. A process of co-creation between human and nonhuman creatures. An instantiation of modes of existence that do not exist (according to our anthropocentric standards of existence). An animal-image. Sunlight-creatures, morning sun. A beam of sunlight transformed into hand-distorted reflections. Reflections that not only multiply the light, but also unsettle boundaries, bend realities, and open cracks for existences that slip beyond the visible and the nameable. An animal-music. Sounds of the sun, sounds of the wind, sounds of human and nonhuman beings. An animal-dance, a dance that distorts the rational and celebrates the irrational, the unclassifiable, the not-knowing. A space outside space, a time outside time. A darkness in which everything is possible. A solar fabulation, in the fissures between the known and the unknown, between reality and fiction.

Light-beings: other kinds of matter. Magical matter, matter made of poetry, delighting in its own inexplicability. A magical and poetic composition in which the sun is not merely the source of the light that shapes the creatures, but is itself a composer. The sound of solar wave frequencies is also part of the composition—lower frequencies, almost inaudible to humans… (headphones are recommended for a more intense audiovisual experience). The animal-image and the animal-music of this audiovisual experiment meet in their refusal of rationalizations; they are images and sounds fabulated in partnership with the sun, not to represent or explain the sun. A partnership between humans and nonhumans, moving toward the end of the world (the anthropocentric, patriarchal/colonial/capitalist world ruled by human exceptionalism), moving toward the instantiation of other possible worlds.