intersecting mediterranean(s)
desde la perspectiva de sus ríos regionales
Elizabeth Gallón Droste & Daniela Medina Poch
Multi-media installation and two channel video performance
4x5x3m, 50”, 14” and variable dimensions,
Calabria, Italy and Berlin, Germany, 2021
intersecting mediterranean(s)
from the perspective of its regional rivers
Elizabeth Gallón Droste & Daniela Medina Poch
Multi-media installation and two channel video performance
4x5x3m, 50”, 14” and variable dimensions,
Calabria, Italy and Berlin, Germany, 2021
esp.
Las aguas del presente son un archivo vivo de las relaciones que mantienen con humanos y más-allá-de-humanos en una compleja red de temporalidades entrelazadas. Contienen información sobre los lugares y cuerpos con los que se han relacionado. ¿Cuáles son los mitos, historias e imaginarios del Mediterráneo que se están tejiendo en este momento?
Bajo una mirada occidental del planeta, el Mediterráneo, como su nombre indica, fue concebido como el centro del planeta conocido. Como un espacio fluido, ha sido una superficie proyectada de futuros disputados y disputables a través de los cuales se ha ejercido violencia sistemática por parte de naciones privilegiadas hacia diferentes formas de vida.
Transformando la heterogeneidad en homogeneidad, el Mediterráneo y sus flujos de vida han sido apropiados por el mundo europeo occidental como mercancías. Guiados por la pregunta de qué está actualmente en el centro y qué merece nuestra atención urgente, buscamos contribuir a desplazar la mirada eurocéntrica sobre el Mediterráneo. Para ecoar algunas de sus historias eclipsadas, abordamos el Mediterráneo en plural como un cuerpo de agua salada que conecta una red de ríos de agua dulce que fluyen entre sí, navegando fronteras y costas a diferentes profundidades y superficies. Como un cuerpo interconectado con múltiples agentes—humanos y más-allá-de-humanos—, coopera y configura su paisaje acuático. Nuestro objetivo es reconocer los imaginarios sistemáticamente invisibilizados del Mediterráneo y explorar este último como una región compleja para contribuir a un reensamblaje más amplio de las identidades e imaginarios en torno a las culturas mediterráneas en su pluralidad.
Intersecting Mediterraneans(s) ha sido desarrollado a través de tres formatos o configuraciones que están en diálogo.
Intersecting Mediterranean(s) es una pieza de investigación e instalación que involucra 36 metros de tejido y una serie de audio multicanal. El tejido conecta el río con el mar y, como una membrana receptiva que lleva memorias, mitos, relaciones y afectos que nutren el Mediterráneo, se convierte en un archivo vivo de este encuentro. El textil da visibilidad a la corriente; al registrar la dirección y manifestar el ritmo, se activa por las voces intersectadas de los ríos Nahr Ibrahim, Po, Isonzo/Soča, Neretva, Cem/Cijevna, Düden, Kishon, Nilo, Medjerda, Chelif, Moulouya, Ebro y Ródano, entre otros. Alrededor del tejido hay una instalación audiovisual que involucra dos performances de video, presentadas separadamente y reproducidas en loop. Intersecting Mediterranean(s) desde sus Ríos Regionales busca reconocer las especificidades de los contextos y flujos de vida que alimentan el Mediterráneo.
La segunda pieza, Intersecting Mediterranean(s) 2022, es un video de 7 minutos que contiene imágenes del tejido en movimiento desde el río Lao hasta el mar Mediterráneo y una composición acústica de las historias que se recopilaron.
Intersecting Mediterraneans: A Sonic Submergence es una configuración digital de 'Intersecting Mediterraneans' comisionada por EXNUNC que invita a los visitantes a sumergirse e interactuar con un paisaje sonoro aparentemente caótico, que teje fragmentos de repertorios acumulativos destrozados de memorias, afectos y fragmentos de conocimiento, tanto de aguas como de tierras. EXN Lagoon está comisariado por Chiara Cartuccia. https://www.ex-nunc.org/intersecting-mediterraneans.
Con las voces e historias de ríos de
Boushra Adi, Martha Ardila, Shiran Berkobich, Zahra Berramdane زهرة بنرمضان, Abla Eloudghiri, Lucía Gallón, Juditt Gatt, Miriam Gatt, Francisca Hartmann, Lea Mijaçika, Dina Mimi, Francesca Onagro, Ivana Papic, Lara Tabet, Kaliroi Tsolakidou, Blanca Utrillas, Duna Vallès
Tejidos con partículas de río, estuario y mar Mediterráneo que llevan voces que narran mitos, proyecciones, intuiciones y recuerdos.
*video bajo solicitud
activated como video:
Tributaries, The Line, London July-October, 2023
Migratory Anthropocene, Improper Walls, Užice, Serbia, July, 2022
TBA21 Imagine the Ocean Dry as Lavender, July, 2022
EX NUNC, July, 20222
The Wave. Collecteurs, The Museum of Private Collections, June 7. 2022
activated como installation:
Water Weighs, Thessaloniki, Greece, October, 2021
Water Weighs, SAVVY Contemporary, Laboratory of Forms and Ideas. Berlin, Germany. November, 2021
Corporalità Sommerse BoCs Museum of Cosenza, Italy. December, 2021 – April, 2022
eng.
The waters of the present are a living
archive of the relations they sustain with humans and more-than-humans
in a complex web of entangled temporalities. They contain information
about the places and bodies they have engaged with. What are the myths,
stories, and imaginaries of the Mediterranean that are currently being
woven together?
Under a Western gaze of the planet,
the Mediterranean, as its name indicates, was conceived as the center of
the known planet. As a fluid space, it has been a projected surface of
contested and disputed futures through which systematic violence has
been effectuated by privileged nations towards different life forms.
Transforming heterogeneity into
homogeneity, the Mediterranean(s) and its life flows have been
appropriated by the Western European world as commodities. Guided by the
question as to what is currently at the center and what deserves our
urgent attention, we seek to contribute to displacing the Eurocentric
gaze on the Mediterranean. To echo some of its overshadowed histories,
we approach the Mediterranean(s) Sea in plural as a saltwater body that
connects a network of freshwater rivers that flow into one other,
navigating borders and coasts at varying depths and surfaces. As an
interconnected body with multiple agents—human and more-than-human—, it
cooperates and configures its waterscape. Our aim is to recognize the
systematically invisibilized imaginaries of the Mediterranean and to
explore the latter as a complex region to contribute to a wider
re-assembling of the identities and imaginaries around the Mediterranean
cultures in its plurality.
Intersecting Mediterraneans(s) has been developed through three formats or configurations which are in dialogue
Intersecting
Mediterranean(s) is a research piece and installation that involves 36
meters of fabric and a multichannel audio series. The fabric connects
the river with the sea, and as a receptive membrane that carries
memories, myths, relationships, and affects that nourish the
Mediterranean, it becomes a living archive of this encounter. The
textile gives visibility to the current; as it registers the direction
and manifests the pace, it is activated by intersecting voices from the
Nahr Ibrahim, Po, Isonzo/Soča, Neretva, Cem/Cijevna, Düden, Kishon,
Nile, Medjerda, Chelif, Moulouya, Ebro, and the Rhône rivers, among
others. Around the fabric is an audiovisual installation
involving two video performances, presented separated from one another
and played in a loop. Intersecting Mediterranean(s) from its Regional
Rivers aims to acknowledge the specificities of contexts and life flows
that nourish the Mediterranean.
The second piece, Intersecting
Mediterranean(s) 2022, is a 7-minute video that contains images of the
fabric in movement in its flow from the Lao River to the Mediterranean
Sea and an acoustic composition of the stories that were gathered.
Intersecting Mediterraneans: A Sonic
Submergence is a digital configuration of ‘Intersecting Mediterraneans’
commissioned by EXNUNC which invites visitors to dive into and interact
with an apparently chaotic sonic landscape, which weaves together
fragments of shattered cumulative repertoires of memories, affects, and
pieces of knowledge, of both waters and lands. EXN Lagoon is curated by
Chiara Cartuccia. https://www.ex-nunc.org/intersecting-mediterraneans
On the audios the following female voices and river stories have contributed: Boushra Adi, Martha Ardila, Shiran Berkobich, Zahra Berramdane زهرة بنرمضان, Abla Eloudghiri, Lucía Gallón, Juditt Gatt, Miriam Gatt, Francisca Hartmann, Lea Mijaçika, Dina Mimi, Francesca Onagro, Ivana Papic, Lara Tabet, Kaliroi Tsolakidou, Blanca Utrillas, Duna Vallès
Fabrics with particles of river, estuary and Mediterranean sea which carry voices that narrate myths, projections, intuitions and memories.
*video upon request
activated as video:
Tributaries, The Line, London July-October, 2023
Migratory Anthropocene, Improper Walls, Užice, Serbia, July, 2022
TBA21 Imagine the Ocean Dry as Lavender, July, 2022
EX NUNC, July, 20222
The Wave. Collecteurs, The Museum of Private Collections, June 7. 2022
activated as installation:
Water Weighs, Thessaloniki, Greece, October, 2021
Water Weighs, SAVVY Contemporary, Laboratory of Forms and Ideas. Berlin, Germany. November, 2021
Corporalità Sommerse BoCs Museum of Cosenza, Italy. December, 2021 – April, 2022