The Mountain of Advanced Dreams is a research-based art project initiated by Mali Weil, critically focused on Interspecies Diplomacies, or on how to imagine different relationships with other living and non-living beings and territories. It layers philosophical, scientific, and speculative approaches with world-building elements and finds its narrative matrix in the two-channel video Rituals. Here the film is divided into three parts: three rituals structured around the themes of the body, language, devouring, death, and dreams.
Video, objects, performances, publications and a School of Interspecies Diplomacies and Werewolfish Studies—a nomadic platform for training and research on diplomatic practices—are all part of a worlding process aimed at devising fictional spaces capable of bridging past and future, diverse theories, practices, and disciplines, functioning as legal experiments for new ecologies.
Rituals | The Mountain of Advanced Dreams / Mali Weil - Photo: Mali Weil, Museo Madre
Exhibit
Rituals | The Mountain of Advanced Dreams
Mali Weil (IT)
Credits
Produced by Centrale Fies and Mali Weil (IT) with Festspillene | Nord Norge (NOR). Project supported by the Directorate-General for Contemporary Creativity by the Italian Ministry of Culture Under the Italian Council Program (2021) and by Fondazione Caritro, Regione Trentino Alto-Adige. | With The Financial Assistance of the European Union through the Culture Moves Europe implemented by Goethe Institut. | written, edited and directed by Mali Weil | photography Roberta Segata | costume design Filippo Soffiati | music Nicola Segatta | soloist countertenor Soloist Rafaele Pe | food artist Lorenzo Barbasetti di Prun | executive production Francesca Venezia, Eirin Lindtner Storesund, Mona Steffensen | sound Giacomo Plotegher
This project has been developed and is presented in the context of Tilling Roots&Seeds. Tilling Roots&Seeds is co-funded by the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union.
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