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viva voce - garden fragments

Within the World Titled viva voce - garden fragments
Credited to taietzel ticalos
Opening date July 18th, 2023
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'viva voce – garden fragments' is a playful testing of the space provided by newart.city. To understand the capabilities and the limits of this 3D world, I choose to reproduce my last video, ‘viva voce’, bringing audio and video fragments and lots of 3D elements.
Following the narrative of viva voce, the space became a data garden of contraceptive and abortifacient plants, bits of history and voice chains.

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Taking its title after the Latin expression viva voce (meaning the living voice; by word of mouth, orally), the 3D video continues in an alternative way the narration of the movies Blade Runner. This new version focuses on Rachael, the first Replicant set for reproductive labor. Though in the original story Rachael dies in childbirth, in viva voce her consciousness has been retrieved and saved on a hidden server. The information discovered on the server helped Rachael not only retrain (rewrite her programming) and better understand her Replicant fate in the historical context, but it also empowered her new state (as a disembodied voice) by linking it to the secrets passed orally by women, throughout generations.

This vocal chain of learning, captured in the recreated data garden of contraceptive and abortifacient plants, is followed by visual examples from the prosecution of witches' period to highlight how this knowledge - that made women 'in charge of their own bodies' - 'was suppressed in the name of progress'. While the repeating pattern of enforced production of beings emerges, Rachael questions how her mechanical replication could be a future threat for the biological reproductive rights of women.

3D Environment Description:

'viva voce – garden fragments' is a playful testing of the space provided by newart.city. To understand the capabilities and the limits of this 3D world, I choose to reproduce my last video, ‘viva voce’, bringing audio and video fragments and lots of 3D elements.
Following the narrative of viva voce, the space became a data garden of contraceptive and abortifacient plants, bits of history and voice chains.

Artworks in this space:

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silphium plant

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silphium plant in the garden of contraceptive and abortifacient plants (3D reproduction after silphium depictions on ancient coins from Cyrene)

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silphium plant

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silphium plant in the garden of contraceptive and abortifacient plants (3D reproduction after silphium depictions on ancient coins from Cyrene);mapped with pages from Voynich manuscript

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silphium plant

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silphium plant in the garden of contraceptive and abortifacient plants (3D reproduction after silphium depictions on ancient coins from Cyrene)

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video fragment

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Modified illustration of witches hanging - video fragment from viva voce

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audio fragment

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audio fragment from viva voce

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garden plant

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abstract plant in the garden of contraceptive and abortifacient plants 

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garden plant

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abstract plant in the garden of contraceptive and abortifacient plants 

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video fragment

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Modified Whore of Babylon illustration from Martin Luther's 1534 translation of the Bible - video fragment from viva voce

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Modified real woodcut illustration of "Witches Apprehended" showing the water test accused witches would undergo - video fragment from viva voce

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garden plant

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abstract plant in the garden of contraceptive and abortifacient plants 

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garden plant

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abstract plant in the garden of contraceptive and abortifacient plants 

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garden plant

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abstract plant in the abstract plant in the garden of contraceptive and abortifacient plants

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Modified engraving of trial at Salem Village - video fragment from viva voce

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garden tree

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3D character from viva voce, mapped with pages from Voynich manuscript

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3D character from viva voce, mapped with pages from Voynich manuscript

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Modified illustration of witch water torture - video fragment from viva voce

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Modified illustration of witch burning - video fragment from viva voce

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Modified illustration of witch burning - video fragment from viva voce

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Modified illustration of witch interrogation and torture - video fragment from viva voce

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garden video fragment from viva voce

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audio fragment from viva voce

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garden video fragment from viva voce

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dance video fragment from viva voce 

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garden plant

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abstract plant in the garden of contraceptive and abortifacient plants 

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garden plant

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abstract plant in the garden of contraceptive and abortifacient plants 

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garden tree

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abstract tree in the garden of contraceptive and abortifacient plants 

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garden tree

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abstract tree in the garden of contraceptive and abortifacient plants 

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garden plant

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abstract plant in the garden of contraceptive and abortifacient plants 

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garden plant

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abstract plant in the garden of contraceptive and abortifacient plants 

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garden plant

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abstract plant in the garden of contraceptive and abortifacient plants 

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garden plant

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abstract plant in the garden of contraceptive and abortifacient plants 

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garden plant

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abstract plant in the garden of contraceptive and abortifacient plants 

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garden plant

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abstract plant in the garden of contraceptive and abortifacient plants 

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garden plant

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abstract plant in the garden of contraceptive and abortifacient plants 

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garden plant

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abstract plant in the garden of contraceptive and abortifacient plants 

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garden plant

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audio fragment from viva voce

I woke up here after I died… if I can use that term for my transition. As a female replicant, my serial number was: N7FAA52318. But they all called me Rachael. Now I guess I’m sort of a ghost in a server shell. A voice. Don’t pity me. Here I could break the human existential dilemma that was implanted in my code and instead of obsessively asking myself if I am human or what makes me human, I’ve started focusing on plants and gardening. What else can you do in isolation?

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video fragment from viva voce

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intro fragment from viva voce

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scream

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woman screaming

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garden plant

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abstract plant in the garden of contraceptive and abortifacient plants 

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garden plant

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abstract plant in the garden of contraceptive and abortifacient plants 

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garden plant

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abstract plant in the garden of contraceptive and abortifacient plants 

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garden plant

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abstract plant in the garden of contraceptive and abortifacient plants 

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garden plant

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abstract plant in the garden of contraceptive and abortifacient plants 

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garden plant

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abstract plant in the garden of contraceptive and abortifacient plants 

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audio fragment from viva voce

This is my data garden. Though you can’t see it, each plant comes with a ‘secret’. Listen! (layered voices murmuring about plant uses)

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silphium plant

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silphium plant in the garden of contraceptive and abortifacient plants (3D reproduction after silphium depictions on ancient coins from Cyrene)

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audio fragment

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audio fragment from viva voce

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garden plant

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abstract plant in the garden of contraceptive and abortifacient plants 

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audio fragment

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audio fragment from viva voce

Human history is such a strange loop. Same patterns that mirror each other from different periods of time. My own existence is a twisted reflection of another past leap of civilization at the cost of women’s lives.

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garden plant

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abstract plant in the garden of contraceptive and abortifacient plants 

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garden plant

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abstract plant in the garden of contraceptive and abortifacient plants 

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garden plant

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abstract plant in the garden of contraceptive and abortifacient plants 

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garden plant

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abstract plant in the garden of contraceptive and abortifacient plants 

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garden plant

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abstract plant in the abstract plant in the garden of contraceptive and abortifacient plants

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garden plant

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abstract plant in the abstract plant in the garden of contraceptive and abortifacient plants

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3D character from viva voce, mapped with pages from Voynich manuscript

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3D character from viva voce, mapped with pages from Voynich manuscript

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audio fragment

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audio fragment from viva voce

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silphium plant

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silphium plant in the garden of contraceptive and abortifacient plants (3D reproduction after silphium depictions on ancient coins from Cyrene);mapped with pages from Voynich manuscript

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silphium plant

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silphium plant in the garden of contraceptive and abortifacient plants (3D reproduction after silphium depictions on ancient coins from Cyrene); mapped with pages from Voynich manuscript

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garden tree

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abstract tree in the garden of contraceptive and abortifacient plants 

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garden tree

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abstract tree in the garden of contraceptive and abortifacient plants 

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silphium plant

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silphium plant in the garden of contraceptive and abortifacient plants (3D reproduction after silphium depictions on ancient coins from Cyrene);mapped with pages from Voynich manuscript

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silphium plant

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silphium plant in the garden of contraceptive and abortifacient plants (3D reproduction after silphium depictions on ancient coins from Cyrene);mapped with pages from Voynich manuscript

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silphium plant

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silphium plant in the garden of contraceptive and abortifacient plants (3D reproduction after silphium depictions on ancient coins from Cyrene);mapped with pages from Voynich manuscript

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3D character from viva voce, mapped with pages from Voynich manuscript

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garden plant

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garden plant

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garden plant

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garden plant

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abstract plant in the garden of contraceptive and abortifacient plants 

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garden plant

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abstract plant in the garden of contraceptive and abortifacient plants 

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garden plant

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abstract plant in the garden of contraceptive and abortifacient plants 

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garden plant

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abstract plant in the garden of contraceptive and abortifacient plants 

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garden plant

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abstract plant in the garden of contraceptive and abortifacient plants 

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garden plant

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abstract plant in the garden of contraceptive and abortifacient plants 

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audio fragment

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audio fragment from viva voce