An audiovisual, ecological and contemplative exploration of the Darién jungle at the Pereira Art Museum

As of this March 16, Darién will be open to the Pereiran public, an audiovisual, ecological and contemplative exploration of the Darién jungle, developed with the aim of reflecting and extending the relationship between the human and the non-human, seeking to raise awareness about the environment and assume the importance of remembering and recognizing the territory in the face of its constant transformation.

It is a joint production between the Pereira Art Museum and the International Image Festival of the interactive installation Darién: Symbiosis by ÉTER Lab, as part of a curatorship around the Anthropocene.

'Darien: Insectus'

The work to be presented at the Pereira Museum proposes a poetic exploration of the territory and the ecological scales present in the Darién jungle, especially highlighting the contrast between micro and macro life. The insect is here understood as a basic life form, a miniature universe, a micro-object, an almost invisible atom in the jungle, a grain in the cacophony, among vaster objects such as the sea and the sky. By contrasting both scales, a situation is evidenced in which the most abstract and lively forms, large and tiny, collapse; a minimum of information with the grand opening of macro-cosmic events.

It is then necessary to establish in the jungle a mediation that weaves together the microsonic and the macrosonic, the panorama with the pixel; the insect, as a minimal form of life in listening, and the sea, as an absolute form of a territory, as a world where fiction is none other than perceiving each form in its purity, in its transformation or in its mere image. In this way, an exploration of the internal matter of the jungle is presented on a micro scale, in sound terms, contrasted with the most macro of the environment: the sea, represented in silence and merely visual. Thus, an audiovisual reading of the dark ecology present in the Darién jungle is proposed, suggesting, through deterritorialization and aesthetic play, a world open to the viewer, free of man as an intervenor of space and apt for speculation of new routes after the Anthropocene. .

Although sound predominates in the work most of the time, the visual is incorporated through intermittent games, simulating frenetic representations, but also integrating contemplative timelines. The visual is limited to landscapes of sea, land and sky. The sound deals with the insects of the jungle, virtually altered to generate musical rhythm, thus building synchronized temporal structures to weave an audiovisual narrative from the idea of how the environment appears and disappears and how nature is and is not. Therefore, it tries to approach the relationship of man with the territory from the experience of an ethereal, indeterminable, dark, raw jungle, not present for touch.

About ETER Lab
Éter is an art and philosophy laboratory dedicated to the technological exploration of sound, word and image. In addition to constantly carrying out actions such as installations, concerts and workshops, we maintain several permanent projects, such as the magazine (oasis), the Darién audiovisual project, the events of La Semana de la Escucha and the series of publications Ediciones ÉTER.