Amanda Maciel Antunes  Where We Go From Here: Public Film Premiere and Performance 

Oct 17,  2021, 7pm

Listed by Curate LA on “This Week’s Must-See Art Events”

Join us on October 17th at 7:00 PM, for new performance art by Amanda Maciel Antunes and the public premiere of her film, Where We Go From Here, shot between 2018-2019 during residences in the Amazon, Brazil, and Los Angeles. Commissioned by Luna Anaïs Gallery, the performance is part of Ithaca, Amanda's solo exhibition on view now through October 28th that responds to Homer's Odyssey through a feminine lens. Produced by Ilona Berger.

Performance and screening will take place outside in the yard of Tin Flats, and the exhibition will be open for viewing.

RSVP to: director@lunaanais.com

“How does the perceived permanence or temporality of our location affect us? Where We Go From Here is a film intended to recreate the experience of being in different places at the same time. The recording of my departures from each location in the film; the Amazon's Rio Negro, my hometown in rural São Paulo, the extreme south of South American island of Florianopolis, and finally Los Angeles, CA;  as an attempt to understand the interconnectedness of my notions of home and memory. 

I want to test the limits of response when the mundane and unexpected coexist. I want to know how we perceive reality and its relationship to the landscape and our collective memory. No one remembers everything, nor in precisely the same way. My experiences of distance, migration, and identity from the places both in my past, present and future, allows for a particular sensitivity to the themes of this performance.“ - Amanda Maciel Antunes 2021

When going back to Ithaca One must be advised To dissuade from mankind

What if Homer was a woman What if the hero of the tale

Was the muse

What if leaving Ithaca

Had always been

Her destination

- Amanda Maciel Antunes, Ithaca,  v.3 2021

To learn about performance by Amanda Maciel Antunes, visit the artist’s website: art.amandamacielantunes.com

See Unframed Docs: Amanda Maciel Antunes. 10:08 min. (video by Unframed Docs)