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The Body: The physical material of an organism; the structure of a whole.
Fulcrum Arts’ Curator, Patrick J. Reed, went to Ars Electronica, where he met the Miami-based, Colombian composer and sound artist Alba Triana, and learned about the essence of everything. This installment marks the first in a series of profiles on artists working with vibration and the ways in which it shapes our world.
The following story unfolds with a cadence all its own. It rewards the curious yet meets the overeager with a measured wait and see.
Inside this, another animal grows, then another, another. Eventually there are hundreds of thousands.
In the fall of 2020, I began gathering samples for what I’ve termed an Anthropogenic Mineral Collection. These carbon-based minerals consist of human-mediated byproducts of geological intervention from the Industrial Revolution to the present. The majority of those in my collection are caused by industrial mining of valuable conductors, and have not been recorded elsewhere as natural occurrences.
I kept considering what happens when liminal space becomes static—how we are all stuck in this transition with the expectation of a return of normalcy, but in actuality there is no neutral, there is no normal. Normal is a veneer in which a few have the privilege of living under.
Colonialism is rooted in the planetary imagination which fails to account for histories of structural racism based on geologic relations and the violent dispossession of indigenous lands. This resulted in legacies of destructive cartography and mapping now used in machine vision in space.