Song Within a Sacrifice Zone

Publication information:

Castaño-Suárez, Orus. 2023. “Song Within a Sacrifice Zone.” in Uses and Abuses of Power in Alternative Spiritualities. Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.

Abstract

Abstract: In the video installation, Song Within a Sacrifice Zone, Orus documents how words fail to express grief for injustice within the hyperobject of the climate crisis. They achieve this through the use of abstract data self-portraiture and poetic abstraction.

The work is kept intentionally short and will screen three times during the installation’s duration. 

Presenter bio:  Orus Mateo Castaño-Suárez endeavours to engage with as diverse a population of thinkers as possible as a graduate student, spiritual practitioner, artist-curator, software designer, and writer. They curate exhibitions for their artist incubator Collective65 in partnership with a number of Toronto consulates. Their most recent show as Torus(2022), was presented in the Great Hall gallery in Canada's largest art and design university, OCADU. As a software designer, Orus is expanding the limits of interdisciplinary data modeling. They can be found tinkering at studiomto.com. 

Presenter affiliation: Ontario College of Art and Design University (OCADU)