Experience of collective thinking, installation and urban intervention
Installation
Bogotá, Colombia. 2019
“A society should be judged not by its statistics, but by its sounds, its art, and its festivities. By listening to the sounds, we can discern the direction in which the madness of people and figures is leading us, and what hopes still remain…” Jacques Attali
Plataforma Bogotá
Laboratorio Interactivo de Arte, Ciencia y Tecnología
“Noise and Politics” proposes an experience of sound creation and critical thinking around the role of noise in our contemporary society. We will reflect on the world of listening and noise as a metaphor for reality. We will seek in noise the codes through which life and interpersonal relationships are read: Noise as difference, subversion, marginality, abnormality, strangeness, queerness.
We will use obsolete technologies (recycling), as an archaeology of our culture, to design speculative sound artifacts (working and imagining beyond, thinking about artifacts that could function in a possible future) that invite us to intervene in our urban space, using noise as a catalyst for social critique. The invitation is to think of a form of radical micropolitical organization and, through noise in all its forms (sonic, visual, cultural, social), encourage action in public space as a metaphor for noise or organized chaos.
This space was composed of two blocks. The first was a theoretical block where we addressed the relationships between noise and capitalism, feminism, language, music, silence, electromagnetism, perception, electronic anarchy, technological dystopia, and extraterrestrial sound.
This block featured the participation of Arcángelo Constantini, Alias Angelita, Jorge Barco, María Angélica Valencia, and Corazón de Robota.
The second block was practical and we developed Lo-Fi/Low-Cost/Low-level electronic devices using local technologies in order to carry out an audiovisual performance in a room and an intervention in public space. Making noise in a ritual that catalyzes change. Noise as social critique.
This exhibition is a sound performance composed of six audiovisual narratives that tell historical stories of the city of Bogotá, which have been deliberately altered and distorted through noise (sonic, visual, narrative). These narratives speculate on possible events or parallel fictions to the “real” events fixed in official history or collective memory. We have used noise as interference, distortion, perturbation, as a fantastic, impossible, random, unreal, subversive, subjective, imaginary, marginal, abnormal, strange, queer factor. Noise as a possibility to fantasize and materialize a different reality.
