NO MORE FIREWORKS
João Pedro Fonseca
This videoart / performance / installation explores a post-humanist narrative where meta-humans are self-sufficient yet retain human complexities. The title draws from fireworks, symbolizing diverse intentions in communication but sharing an ephemeral nature.
Currently, the "ghost" has become an increasingly appropriate metaphor for the way marginalized populations "haunt" everyday life, living on the edge of visibility and inspiring a mixture of fear and indifference. New technologies have given rise to a ghostly entropy, manifesting through the internet, smartphones, and digitized media as more spectral beings, living without anchoring to distinct locations in time and space. "No More Fireworks" unfolds within a post-humanist fiction, envisioning a scenario where the meta-human is a self-poietic being, entirely self-sufficient, yet still carrying ideological, belief, and existential adversities that characterize their human condition. The title is based on fireworks as an operation with different intentions: entertainment, aid, or terror, all burning the skies in an attempt to communicate, whether in a passive or active tone; these phenomena equally share the same form - they are ephemeral appearances.
post-nature; transmutative artifacts; phantom hardware; haunted machines; cybernetic spiritualism; molecular faith
3D scanning; point cloud; artificial intelligence
videoart; audiovidual installation; performance
Performance: Ana Oliveira e Silva, Lua Carreira, Filipe Baptista, João Pedro Fonseca
Video: João Pedro Fonseca
Installation: João Pedro Fonseca
Sound: João Pedro Fonseca
Technical director: André Teixeira