New Sun, 2020
by Yuri Tuma
The project
NEW SUN wants to break away from linguistic and rational constructions when trying to create possible utopias and/or dooms, fictions and/or futures that reflect on coexistence.
Within us lies a collective and informative genetic more-than-human memory that can potentially be awakened through sound alone. When we speak of doom we might as well be speaking of a time before “creation”; doom is full of chaotic activities, but it could also be a time of slow silencing and emptying of time and space.
The piece was created by mixing walk spaces together with phonetic poetry and musical composition derived from burnt music sheets. To imagine a NEW SUN is to imagine the end but also the beginning, the birth, the transformation towards a new existence.
Art pieces
The collection consists of five stages of a NEW SUN, each born from meticulously manipulated photography, reimagining celestial energy through abstraction, and two video artworks (captured from a 3D environment together with an original 8-minute musical composition) that invite viewers into a virtual realm of ethereal light and motion.
Making of
About the artist
Yuri Tuma is a multidisciplinary Brazilian artist living in Madrid who focuses on the investigation of contemporary narratives related to sonic ecologies through collective practices, sound art, installation, and performance as a way to address and reevaluate the human/animal binomial imposed by science and Western thinking.
In early 2020, he co-founded the Institute for Postnatural Studies (IPS) in Madrid, a platform that focuses on the relationship between contemporary artistic practice and the necessary revision of the concept of nature. More actively, in addition to academic programming and artistic direction, he coordinates the Institute's publishing project, Cthulhu Books, to become a showcase for the political potential of imagining new worlds and possible futures for the planet through academic and artistic research.
Starting in 2021, in addition to participating in residencies and coordinating workshops around interspecies thinking and sound ecologies, Tuma works with educational and mediation programs through sound art and performance at Spanish institutions such as Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Matadero, La Casa Encendida, INLAND, among others.
