Jungle Machine
JUNGLE MACHINE I, 29 Oct 2010 — Produced by Soopa and Serralves Museum, Porto, Portugal. JUNGLE MACHINE II, 21 Nov 2013 — Produced by Soopa and Festival Accès(s), Pau, France.
team:
Direction: Jonathan Saldanha; Concept Jonathan Saldanha, Benjamin Brejon; Text editing / montage: Manuel Neto, Benjamin Brejon, Jonathan Saldanha; Music: Jonathan Saldanha, Benjamin Brejon; Prismatic video sources: Jonathan Saldanha, Catarina Miranda, Benjamin Brejon; Video archives & lazer manipulation Ewen Chardronnet; Voice / body: Diogo Dória; Poster: Dayana Lucas, Jonathan Saldanha; Silkscreen print: Oficina ARARA; Photo: Silvana Torrinha, Jonathan Saldanha; Production: SOOPA
To enter this Jungle means to submit to the absolute indifference and lack of distinction between inner and outer world.
Conceived from the assembly of fragments of the book "The Crystal World" by JG Ballard and "Heart of Darkness" by Joseph Conrad. The piece is divided into two mutually implicated flows of extended duration, Report#1 and Report#2, proposing an experience of environmental and cosmological immersion in a prismatic and fictional Jungle.
In this Jungle there is a constant translation and expansion of body limits, both organic and mental, trapping them in an envelope (a cave, a cavity) with multiple entries: a space for echoes, visitations, drifts and constant dream infiltrations. The Jungle is, accordingly, a machine (symbolic, sensory and sonic) of fictions, streams and underground intensities in which we enter, while we remain ourselves parts of this contamination machine.
