Resonaciones: sounds vibrating sympathetically into time and space

Carolina Arévalo; Bettina Korintenberg

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.7238/artnodes.v0i34.424747

Carolina Arévalo

Columbia University

Bettina Korintenberg

ifa (Institute for Foreign Cultural Relations)

This article unfolds the research and exhibition project Resonaciones. An Embrace to Awake, that originates from an encounter with ancient whistling vessels from the Moche culture from the collection of the Ethnological Museum Stuttgart (Linden Museum). Different forms of knowledge and practices from sound art, new materialism, quantum physics and indigenous philosophies connect within the experiential and experimental setting of the exhibition space. Thus, the potential of curatorial and artistic practice is revealed in forging connections and relations and opening up reflections on philosophical, natural and historical concepts. By reactivating the ancestral technology of whistling vessels, Resonaciones explores the vibrational essence of matter and energy, manifested in sound as a medium of connection and agency. Perceiving reality through vibrations, the ontological boundaries between subject and object, between past, present and future, and spatial conceptualizations break down and reconfigure opening up other modes of remembering and relating to one another.

Keywords:

transduction, sound, vibration, resonance, time, memory, media archaeology, ancestral technology, epistemology

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Arévalo, Carolina; and Korintenberg, Bettina. “Resonaciones: sounds vibrating sympathetically into time and space”. Artnodes, no. 34, pp. 1-11, doi:10.7238/artnodes.v0i34.424747.

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Author Biographies

Carolina Arévalo, Columbia University

Carolina Arévalo Karl (Santiago, 1985) is an independent curator, M.A. in design history and curatorial studies from the Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Museum and The New School (New York), and a designer from the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. Her research has been published in edited volumes and exhibition catalogues, including publishers and institutions such as Museo Amparo in Puebla, Mexico; Museo Chileno de Arte Precolombino, Chile; Universitat de Girona, Spain; ifa Stuttgart, Germany; Goethe-Institut, Chile; Museo de Artes Visuales (MAVI), Chile; and Armhest College Press, US.

Bettina Korintenberg, ifa (Institute for Foreign Cultural Relations)

Bettina Korintenberg (Mainz, 1984) holds a PhD in cultural studies and is head of the ifa Galleries. Her curatorial practice focuses on interrogating digital and global media ecology and revising the history of ideas of Western-influenced modernity against the backdrop of current social and ecological transformations. She is especially interested in alternative space-time configurations and forms of social collectivity through collaborative processes. From 2016 to 2020, she was curator at the ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe. She is a lecturer and gives workshops at Bienal de Artes Mediales Santiago de Chile, CCCB Barcelona, Goethe Institut Nowosibirsk and New Delhi, KIT Karlsruhe, Literaturhaus Berlin, University Roehampton, ZHdK Zurich, ZKM | Karlsruhe, and is author of numerous articles and essays published by The MIT Press, Kerber, DCV Verlag, University of Minnesota Press, Kadmos Kulturverlag, ifa – Institute for Foreign Cultural Relations, Vitra Design Museum and ZKM | Karlsruhe.

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