Pamela Breda

Pamela Breda

(1982) is an artist and filmmaker living in Vienna. She has been artist-in-residence at several international art institutions, including the Cité Internationale des Arts (Paris), the Pratt Institute (New York, USA) and the Botin Foundation (Santander, Spain). She has been awarded several prizes and art grants, including the IMéRa Grant (Marseille), Cantica 21 (MibaC) and the Italian Council Prize (MibaC). Her films and artworks have been shown internationally. His research focuses on visual tropes and cultural traditions, the contingency of the artistic process and its multiple outcomes.

Her artistic practice will focus on investigating under-represented European shamanic practices in light of recent academic reappraisals of indigenous cosmologies and human-nonhuman relations. The aim is to critically assess the role of shamanism through experimental and expanded cinema. Blending artistic practice and research, anthropology and sensory ethnography, the research aims to provide new perspectives on shamanic worldviews and amplify under-represented voices. The residency will result in the first film of a trilogy and an artist’s book.