Jatun Risba - Be-coming Tree Tipperary (03:24)
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...
No. 1715
"Merkato (trailer)"
Artist: Jatun Risba
Title: Merkato (trailer)
Duration: 09:19 (trailer 01:17)
Year: 2023
Genre: Documentary video
Production: Jatun Risba
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MORE"Merkato" is the 3rd video essay filmed by artist Jatun Risba during a field research in central Ethiopia in the beginning of 2015. It offers an insight into the social choreographies and the material culture of the Merkato marketplace in Addis Ababa. Merkato is the largest open-air market in Africa, covering several square miles and employing an estimated 13,000 people in 7,100 business entities. The filming was facilitated by the precious help and assistance provided by Melak Alemayehu and Ermiyas Alemu. (Source: Jatun Risba)
Jatun Risba - Poetics of Colour nu. 1 (07:44)
Production: Jatun Risba, 2024
‘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 inte...
Production: Jatun Risba, 2024
‘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 inte...
Jatun Risba - enerRrgy (09:07)
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
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....
Jatun Risba - payasi-winti (05:20)
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, 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...
Jatun Risba - Possibility of a Relation (06:00)
Production: Jatun Risba, 2023
In the work ‘Possibility of a Relation’, the artist Jatun Risba traces in the air and in the space an alchemic matrix for the webs of conviviality to come. A transparent one square meter film – symbolizing the burden of the rising cost o...
Production: Jatun Risba, 2023
In the work ‘Possibility of a Relation’, the artist Jatun Risba traces in the air and in the space an alchemic matrix for the webs of conviviality to come. A transparent one square meter film – symbolizing the burden of the rising cost o...
Jatun Risba - Worship in Spirit and Fire (trailer) (10:37 (trailer 01:12))
Production: Jatun Risba, 2023
The video essay "Worship in Spirit and Fire" was filmed during an independent field research about ancestral ceremonies, dances and Zār spirit possession rituals conducted by artist Jatun Risba in central Ethiopia in the beginning of 2015. The fieldwork...
Production: Jatun Risba, 2023
The video essay "Worship in Spirit and Fire" was filmed during an independent field research about ancestral ceremonies, dances and Zār spirit possession rituals conducted by artist Jatun Risba in central Ethiopia in the beginning of 2015. The fieldwork...
Jatun Risba - Worship of Earth and Togetherness (trailer) (13:51 (trailer 01:40))
Production: Jatun Risba, 2023
The video essay "Worship of Earth and Togetherness" is the outcome of an independent field research on work songs, folk troubadours (azmari) and traditional social customs, rituals and festive events conducted by artist Jatun Risba in central Ethiopia in...
Production: Jatun Risba, 2023
The video essay "Worship of Earth and Togetherness" is the outcome of an independent field research on work songs, folk troubadours (azmari) and traditional social customs, rituals and festive events conducted by artist Jatun Risba in central Ethiopia in...
Jatun Risba - Blitzangriff (trailer) (04:20 (trailer 00:30))
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
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...
Jatun Risba - Be-coming Space (05:05)
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, 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,...
Jatun Risba - Be-coming Tree Polyptych (Spring) (03:01)
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...
