Valentina Desideri and Denise Ferreira da Silva cultivate a collaborative practice informed by their research across philosophy, political theory and body-based knowledges. Sensing Salon presents a reading of Cosmopolis #2 performed through various tools such as Tarot, Astrology, Political Therapy and Reiki. Centered on an awareness of how emotional, societal and political dimensions are intertwined, the project explores sensing and sense-making as processes central to both healing and art. Desideri and Ferreira da Silva will lead tarot workshops with the public to articulate possibilities for intellectual and political agency through alternative, non-scientific knowledge systems.
Valentina Desideri, born 1982, Rome, Italy
Lives and works in Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Denise Ferreira da Silva, born 1963, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Lives and works in Vancouver, Canada
Sensing Salon, 2019
Mixed media
Commissioned for ‘Cosmopolis #2: rethinking the human’
Courtesy of the artists
Presented with the support of Canada Council for the Arts
Designers : Arely Amaut, Amilcar Packer
Translator : Nicolas Pertsov