pirate potencies

oral tradition stories and the emergency of imaginary cartographies 

 

Before everything else

recognize the shipwreck

the sea has swallowed every island

including yours

everything around you

is sea and mirage

but you insist in reinventing

the archipelago

~ Alexandre Shiguehara

 

Terra incognita... this term appeared in the 16th century to signal unknown regions. Cartography at the time was illustrated with monsters, sea serpents, mermaids, quite different from today´s maps, photographed by satellites and void of any fantastic intervention. In our now known territory, the map is closed, all frontiers are defined. But the autonomous zone – the imagination – is open...  an invitation to drifting, to freedom. Utopia loses its primary meaning of nowhere and now denotes every possible place – that is where the pirate potency is taking us: to experience other times and spaces.

 

Using traditional stories to set us in motion, we will propose experimentations with the imagination, piratic par excellence. Contaminations, smuggling and subversions with words and images to create cartographies and uncapturable ways of coexistence.