Trancecorporeal

Chiara Pitrola

Hydrofeminist Rituals as Technology

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Chiara Pitrola is a hydrofeminist practitioner working with rituals as a form of technology to explore ecological questions. As a holobiont she acknowledges the bodily transits that allow her body to regenerate, inviting through her practice to do the same. She’s interested in transcorporeal flows and contemporary witchcraft. Her practice manifests images, videos and installations dealing with living organisms or organic materials. She also advocates for oral poetry as a form of spell and imaginative tool.

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https://chiarapitrola.xyz/

Cosmic Swarm · Be foam, Be soup

The installationTrancecorporeal intends to manifest transcorporeal transits through a ritualistic approach. It is inspired by horseshoe crab’s blue blood and critical towards their commodification for medical purposes.

The artist gathers hydrofeminist sacred spaces, questioning what is sacred today. The visitor is invited to manifest invisible transcorporeal transits, performing symbolic manoeuvres of restitution to a bigger shared vessel.

Horseshoe crabs are synched with the tides and moon cycles. Visitors can listen to a spell told by a tide. Spells antiquely were meant to control natural forces, while here the spell "Be foam, Be soup" arises to voice non-human needs.