Meet the Artist
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Tiny Domingos's artistic practice combines space-related work with conceptual approaches surrounding issues on economy, identity and pop culture. His work includes photography, drawing, sculpture and installations, focusing on data visualisation, econometrics and risk management.
Resonances III Project
Landslide
The focus of his installation for Resonances III, Landslide, is on seismic data and two structures which are composed by specific actuators that are able to simulate seisms in a smaller scale than the natural ones. The backdrop of Landslide is the current questioning of scientific certainty and the danger of collapse of our civilisation due to environmental degradation, climate change and socio-political dysfunctions.
Tiny researched the effect and scale of natural disasters. In the experiment Flank collapse, the team at the JRC converted economic data so that it could be used to simulate a seismic event. In this way, Tiny was able to draw connections between natural disasters and economic crises, and produce the Price of Volatility, an outdoor sculpture inspired by the relationship between these two types of event and respective datasets (see image below). As it swayed in the wind it became the perfect representation of how our lives are always unstable. As Tiny put it, of panta rhei, the ancient Greek saying from Heraclitus, “everything is in motion”.
A collaboration between Tiny Domingos,Francesco Mugnai, Pierre Pegon, Luca Barbaglia and Luca Tiozzo Pezzoli.
Continued collaboration @ JRC (2021)
Tiny was in residence at the JRC Ispra site in November 2022, and used this time to pursue interdisciplinary conversations about resilience, risk reduction, situational awareness, big data and climate change adaptation, under the umbrella of the EC’s Green Deal and digital transformation strategy. He worked alongside Monica Cardarilli and connected with researchers across a variety of other units. His ongoing research Landslide looks at resilience to crises and natural and/or manmade disasters.
LANDSLIDE is tangential to the Green Deal and Digital Strategy of the European Commission and the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction of the United Nations. Moreover, it touches on the current climate crisis discussions and the post-humanist perspective of "de-centring the human", bridging the Human/Non-Human divide.
Tiny’s work hopes to showcase some of the great projects operating in the JRC, and connect colleagues from various units who are working on these issues. The overall aim is to increase awareness and approach resilience, thanks to the curiosity, enthusiasm and passion of the JRC scientists. Whilst no project was produced, theirs was an awesome example of the value and benefit of continued art-science collaborations at JRC, for all parties involved.
Presentation of Residency (30/11/2021)
Artist in residence Tiny Domingos and scientist Monica Cardarilli presented the collaboration that had begun with Tiny’s residencies in November 2021 at JRC on 30/11/2021.
Under the theme "Not all crises can be prevented but you are not alone", they discussed how risk management, eco-sustainability, resilience and remediation meet in the framework of art and science. The talk invited the public to look at nature under a different light, and face the future with confidence through a plural approach that includes science, art and planetary health. Tiny and Monica spoke about the need to ferment agency, to open up perspectives on soil (usually seen as solid foundation and inert matter), the fatality of natural disasters and geo-hazards, and more generally how transdisciplinary approaches such as SciArt help move towards towards global resilience. Tiny Domingos guided us through his research for the LANDSLIDE project and presented the main works produced for the Resonances III / DATAMI Festival. Monica Cardarilli spoke about the numerous correlations and implications of landslide disasters and the need for a holistic approach to them.
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Tiny Domingos and JRC scientist Monica Cardarilli gave a presentation on Landslides, structured in three parts. First, Tiny’s past (and ongoing) fascination with landslides as critical masses that reconfigure the ground, which had motivated his work for Resonances III. Next, the present connection with Monica, who worked on landslides for her PhD, and their shared interest in risk management and resilience. They advocated for flexibility and a readiness to adapt when faced with changes or natural disasters; so we can land smoothly, instead of falling. In such shifting circumstances, Tiny stressed the need to reconnect to the soil, and understand that it is alive and subject to change as we are.
They discussed the importance of art in these scenarios, as art can help us face and overcome change, humanising science and connecting it to society. Metaphors in art and literature thus intersect the natural phenomena of landslides in multiple forms, including scientific databases and models, inspiring people towards change and resilience. In curiosity we find innovation.
Lastly, with an eye to future developments, they proposed more collaborations within the JRC, with a “resilience chain” of people working together through trauma, to recover a balance with the natural world, facilitated by the bridging role of SciArt. This work should be grounded in the notion that we need more respect to achieve the convergence of human and natural. In this way, we can move on from crises and get a step closer to NaturArchy, deriving hope and re-connection from the soil.
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