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Desenterrando papitas

(2024-)

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Project under development between Boyacá and Nariño lands in Colombia

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Digging up little potatoes [1]. Listening as a medium between invocation and evocation of the territory.

 

Abstract

Digging up little potatoes, is an experimentation articulated within the need to question the exercise of phonography and its impacts in terms of sound extractivism. It is an experimental proposal to reflect on the Andean territory, anthropological practices and the cultural dynamics associated with the potato tuber, from the exercise of participatory field recording and the sound abstraction of the decontextualized record.

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Sound reveals matter, in its most abstract and mysterious dimension. Listening, like farming, requires time, patience and love. In what ways can art connect us to the earth from micro-political, micro-biological, micro-perceptual perspectives? Even bonding with a plant as if it were our own autobiography, as if it were our own autobiography?

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To claim the micro scale means to listen again, as a medium, to communicate as spiritists attentive to phenomena, listening to surfaces, descending from our verticality, even underground. Sound waves travel through our matter, in a porous listening that makes us one with those we are listening to.

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[1] Desenterrando papitas, is a reflection written in Spanish that was born precisely from the diminutive, as a way of approaching the potato from the point of view of affection.

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