‘Poetics of Colour nu.1’ is an art intervention by Jatun Risba inspired by an ongoing research about the Atlantic Slave Trade History and Vodou & Winti rituals connected to the region of Zeeland, NL. The track in the video is a poetic interpretation of selected folksongs written in Surinamese Creole language with English translation taken from the (1975) book "Creole drum. An Anthology of Creole Literature in Surinam" by Jan Voorhoeve & Ursy M. Lichtveld. The use of the blood and costume are inspired by Vodou religion. However, the artist detours the common associations and practices in Vodou rituals by staging a queer, androgynous version of the male Loa Baron Samedi, the stylish and sophisticated Spirit of the Dead and probably the most infamously famous character in the Vodou pantheon. The blood used in the action is artist's personal, non-violently harvested menstrual blood, the "blood of life". In this way, ‘Poetics of Colour nu.1’ offers a juxtaposition to the practice of animal sacrifice in Haitian Vodou ceremonies that functions also as a commentary and response to the contemporary conflict in Ukraine. Premiere screening at the exhibition Leeuwenpoort artists at CBK Zeeland, Middelburg, Netherlands. (Source: Jatun Risba)
Production: Jatun Risba, 2024
This video extract documents the Be-coming Tree: Tipperary performance for camera by Jatun Risba during their research Artist in Residence period at Instant Dissidence in Cloughjordan Ecovillage, Ireland in January 2024. The performance is a re-inaction o...
Production: Jatun Risba, 2023
Shot in the vicinity of the coal-fired power plant Cerano in Puglia, Italy, the video enerRrgy depicts a somatic perturbation in vicinity of the clash between naturally available sources of power (sun, tides, movement) and extractive industries of energy....
Production: Jatun Risba, 2023
Live sound composition and improvisation in an old-fashioned ceramic studio. The use of ritual objects (mala, bell) and the androgynous Baron Samedi outfit are inspired by spirit possession rituals (voodoo & winti) connected with theTransatlantic Slav...
Production: Jatun Risba, 2022
A lightning, hit and run incursion into the most intimate space of an operating hospital: the restroom. A dancing rapture that overturns the medical gaze inside modern health institutions which marked the artist’s sexual and personal upbringing in i...
Production: Jatun Risba, 2022
Be-coming Space is a transpersonal and transmundane initiative with no beginning and no end, facilitated by Jatun Risba (Rikzang Lhamo). During a 38-days long self-isolation period, from the 10th of January until the full moon on the 16th of February 2022,...
Production: Jatun Risba, 2020/21
Be-coming Tree is collection of four videos documenting the seasonal durational live-streamed performative acts by Jatun Risba in Panovec forest in Nova Gorica, Slovenia during the pandemic year 2020/21. The artwork enacts an encounter between the stream...
Production: Jatun Risba, 2020/21
Be-coming Tree is collection of four videos documenting the seasonal durational live-streamed performative acts by Jatun Risba in Panovec forest in Nova Gorica, Slovenia during the pandemic year 2020/21. The artwork enacts an encounter between the stream...
Production: Jatun Risba, 2020/21
Be-coming Tree is collection of four videos documenting the seasonal durational live-streamed performative acts by Jatun Risba in Panovec forest in Nova Gorica, Slovenia during the pandemic year 2020/21. The artwork enacts an encounter between the stream...
Production: Jatun Risba, 2020/21
Be-coming Tree is collection of four videos documenting the seasonal durational live-streamed performative acts by Jatun Risba in Panovec forest in Nova Gorica, Slovenia during the pandemic year 2020/21. The artwork enacts an encounter between the stream...
Production: Jatun Risba & Cultural Centre Záhrada (Banská Bystrica, Slovakia), 2020
The video 'Be-coming Cow' was realized during an art residency of Jatun Risba at the cultural centre Záhrada (“Garden”) in Banská Bystrica, Slovakia in the end of Summer 2020. The field research in form of a 3-days cohabitation p...