Resonant cadences in Guatavita lagoon

The project is based on transdisciplinary research about Guatavita Lagoon and seeks to point out the need to become aware of the importance of the agency of non-humans (in Bruno Latour's terms: rivers, lagoons, plants, animals, volcanoes, bots, etc.). The research begins with fieldwork in which two activities were carried out: on one hand, a database was created with information from various sensors (temperature, pressure, soil moisture, water flow, etc.) with a weather and monitoring station; on the other hand, a sound file was recorded built from various walks around Guatavita Lagoon. In the next stage, the data was analyzed, ordering and classifying the most significant. Then, the information was processed with SuperCollider, to generate both digital sounds and low wavelength sounds that have vibrational effects.

The final product is a light, vibrational and sound installation that has at its center a sculptural piece in the shape of a bowl that will contain water. There vibrate the sound files recorded at the lagoon and the sonification of the databases, with the purpose of making reference to the aquatic culture of the Muiscas. Through an aesthetic exercise of trans-species translation, the piece proposes non-humans as subjects that are not sufficiently interpreted; which subverts Western epistemologies that pose the entities of the world as objects that lack being studied.