#002 Dispossession is an exercise in challenging the way we produce knowledge. In this work Rikka explores the history of her family - it is a story of translation, migrations, diaspora, memories, identity, and cultural tradition. The visual part of this work was made in collaboration with fo7ons - it is accompanied by a sensitive sound composition by a Brazilian producer charlie noir. The fragile yet brave discourse of the artwork is so tuned and complete that it seems you can read the feelings of the story by closing your eyes and listening to the ambient proposed by charlie. It includes the travels, the emptiness, the reality distortion, the sublime storm, and a sea that unifies everything as a common and elemental mother. It is all about the tension between belonging and not belonging.

This mutual understanding between the collaborating artists shows that they can resonate with each other’s practices by sharing similar experiences or feelings about their social environment.

"#002 Dispossession" is the second chapter in {{{MOTHER/ship}}}: time capsule for future generations series, a video installation and crypto article that seeks to intertwine personal narrative, family memories, speculative design, and situated knowledge.

"Dispossession" presents an article structure, in which historical research and autoethnography as an anthropological methodology are mobilized to produce a critical analysis, focusing on issues such as migration, race, decoloniality, and identity. However, when the "main history" has already failed with so many that were obliterated by hegemonic paragraphs and vertical writing, what alternatives frameworks do we have to produce new social imaginaries to continue telling our stories? So, this piece is an exercise of how other structures could challenge how we produce knowledge by catalyzing our ability to dream.

Dimension: 1555x874px
Duration: 3m54s@24fps
Format: mp4/sound

Artwork by RIKKA in collab w/ fo7ons 
Music by charlie noir

#002 Dispossession — MOTHER/ship

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Listening is a perception that is often left behind in artistic circuits and industries. Since the 1970s when sound art appeared as a separate discipline, different strategies were used to make sound and listening exercises more notorious or conscious. Even though these strategies helped to put sound on stage (music, noise, and various compositions), it has other means of distribution, separate from visual art. Today we also find an NFT circuit that has relegated the audio to silence in a similar way to the platforms in which we access content (like social media, streaming platforms, and video games). Although there is a level of concern around this situation, the sound still seems to be put in second place: it is turned off by default.

Listening is a highly charged emotional experience, operating in that part of a symbolic field that we are not prepared to approach. What exactly do we miss when we forget to turn on the sound of an artwork? Can this aspect of the crypto art reveal something about our modernity? How does this particular sound look like?

This selection of tokenized artworks allows us to see and listen at the same time. Here we look at the aesthetic climate of a region, exploring artistic strategies between digital and discursive tools created to express ideas and feelings through sound.

Sounds of Mutation

Listening as an aesthetic climate of a region.

#002 Dispossession — MOTHER/ship

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