ACME Estudio's Mysterious Object 2022-2023 residencies with the exhibition "Every bursting impulse of light" by the nodoCCS collective (Diana Rangel & Maria Bilbao·Herrera)
Diana Rangel & Maria Bilbao-Herrera
Every impulse that explodes (2022)
Madrid
"every impulse of light that bursts
from the core
as life flies away from us
Tycho whispering at last
'Let it not seem that I have lived in vain'.
What we see, we see
and to see is to change"
Excerpt Adrienne Rich, "Planetarium" from Collected Poems: 1950-2012
If time is a line, as Western thought assumes, we might think that this is a single moment for which we have to devise a solution that allows that line to continue. If time is a circle, as the indigenous cosmovision presumes, the knowledge we need is already within it, we just have to remember it to find it again and let it teach us.
The symbols of femininity are usually circular. As in indigenous thought, the feminine and the image invite us invite us to understand the world from a circular gaze, of eternal return, a feminine view of time, which is much more aligned with the soft and cyclical than with the the historical timeline.
For ACME's spaces and in the framework of the residency "A Mysterious Object", the collective proposes "Every impulse that explodes", an installation based on sound and sound actions on spaces that keep the memory of past wars. These actions and sound interventions are intended to generate new systems of relationship between sound and the body through listening and attention practices, such as improvisations with the breathing and its sounds- to generate a receptive attitude that invites to enter into the mode of deep listening, de-conditioning the usual patterns of attention to incorporate new ones. These practices in turn seek to put themselves in dialogue through referents of Western culture: integrating readings of two women poets who have experienced wounds of war and migration; as well as with ancestral practices practices of the culture of the Warao ethnic group, native to the Venezuelan Orinoco Delta.
Each region, each country and territory, each particular ethnic group has its own conception of the world, their symbolic system, their cosmogonic understanding, and their procedures must be seen within the difference, in the sphere of otherness, respecting and valuing each human condition, because there are no static worlds or consummated truths. In the Warao culture, the ritual laments have been described in the South American lowlands as an almost exclusive specialty of women and with a strong relevance in the relevance in the organization of social life. Every ritual process is a work of art that is nourished by the sacred. Thus, Roland Barthes says, it is through the ritual that art will arouse a reversibility of time. That is to say, the work of art in the realm of the divine is the creation of a figure of reversibility in the face of death, and within this conception, the perishable is overcome through the divine, because the divine is eternal and enduring.
