PCAI is pleased to announce the screening of Cotton Chronicles by PCAI collection artist Natasa Efstathiadi at WORM in Rotterdam.
A night of short films curated by shadow circuits’ program maker Ruby Reding. The screening is part of the exhibition presented at MaMA Museum in Rotterdam. The shorts focus on labour and cargo ships, set against the backdrop of the current precarity of logistics in the context of inflation, automation and war. With the sea as a political and poetic landscape, the films explore globalisation, the pollution of our resources and the people who labour at different sites along the supply chain.
With works by Diana Al Halabi, the Waterfront Writers and Artists, Mohamed Abdelkarim and Natasa Efstathiadi.
Cotton Chronicles by Natasa Efstathiadi 2015, Courtesy of Polygreen Contemporary Art Initiative PCAI.
Cotton chronicles is what its title may describe, an account, a chronicle of an artist’s stay in Benin, a description of the workers’ activities at the working site, in a warehouse full of toxic and expired pesticide meant for cotton cultivation. A day to day travel-log of events, disparate impressions and landscapes, a celluloid journal edited on camera. One could consider this analogy: the celluloid short shots pasted one after the other are like an artist’s rough sketches on his sketchbook. Mystery can be found in small gestures, shot here and there, they could then be the verses of a poem.
Program:
Thursday, April 22
20:30-22:30
More information:
Activity aligned with Goals 1, 3, 4, 7, 8, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17
