2015 – Nóctulo by Clemencia Echeverri
Video art installation.
“ Nóctulo (noctule) is a psychic space. A state of awareness where traumatic memories emerge; memories that have almost been erased but are still latent in a dark place: that distant place shown here in images and echo sounds, like ghosts that return to claim closure sealing the cycle of the unending search for a path towards light and life.
The ultrasonics produced by the noctule bat, now audible, serve as an allegory of other dimensions of living beings, and of other ways to perceive. The constant flutter of the colony of noctules in the background of the farm traces the footprint of the imperceptible work that carries with it the seeds of life (“multiple pores, black dots, small scars or grids” –paraphrasing Deleuze and Guattari), that support the process of healing and forgetfulness in that remote place, in a small farm in the abandoned country of our inhuman violence. ”
M Belén Sáez de Ibarra
Curator
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Credits
Multichannel video art piece by Clemencia Echeverri – 2015
Project Director, video artist: Clemencia Echeverri
Sound artists: Clemencia Echeverri, Juan Forero
Field sound recording: Juan Forero
Audio Post Production, Sound design, surround mix in 8.2: Juan Forero
Multimedia programming (Max/MSP/Jitter, BrightSign®): Juan Forero
Video Editing and Post-Production: Cacumen Films
Animation: Boris Terán
General Media and Research Assistant: Susana Montoya