Blog – TERRA IGNOTA

The Familiar and the Remote

A Day of Audio Streams and Soundwalks
02.05.26 / 4pm – 6pm & 7.30 – 10pm @ Liebig12, Berlin

On May 2nd Liebig 12 presents a day devoted to hearing and exploring our sound environment in very different ways. There will be a soundwalk around the streets, parks and pathways of Friedrichshain, followed by an evening of listening, discussion and talks devoted to the fast-growing practice of audio streaming. Artist and researchers Peter Cusack, Kerstin Ergenzinger, Michiel Huijsman, Udo Noll, Carsten Stabenow and others will outline projects in which they are involved, including radio.aporee, radio.earth, Soundtrackcity, Terra Ignota.

Magallanes Signaling @ Festival Tsonami 2026

Magallanes Signaling by Carsten Stabenow and Raviv Ganchrow was presented at this years Tsonami Festival.

Perfromative spatial-sound configurations, culled from unedited location recordings of a research journey through Chile’s southernmost regions (Tierra del Fuego and Navarino Island) to the decommissioned radio station at Wulaia Bay.

Terra Ignota – Nomadic Laboratory

Since December 29th 2025, Terra Ignota – Nomadic Laboratory is formaly registered as a non-profit organisation in Puerto Williams/Chile under the protection of the law 20.500.

Wulaia_radio station reanimation

As an extension of radiales >> Jan 30th – Feb 6th : Broadcasting live from Wulaia’s radio station (map). Follow the stream!

Floating Laboratory

We congratulate Corporación Laguna de los Cisnes on successfully bringing the Floating Laboratory out of the water. After a year of preparations, the vessel is now at the dock, where it will be repaired and equipped with scientific and artistic instruments that will enable navigation and research in the Cabo de Hornos archipelago.

Terra Ignota Nomadic Laboratory

Starting in 2026, Terra Ignota will acquire legal status as a corporation with its headquarters in Cabo de Hornos. The corporation will include participating members from Argentina, Germany, and Chile, and will be supported by a distinguished team from the Universidad Austral de Chile.

New research programme for 2026

The Cultural Agglomeration Zone (CAZ) project investigates the accumulation of cultural, historical, and environmental layers in Bahía Wulaia and Seno Ponsonby (in the Cape Horn archipelago), considering more than 7,000 years of occupation by seafaring nomads. In collaboration with the Austral University of Chile, the project will carry out an extensive study in the Ponsonby area during January and February 2026, with the aim of rethinking the current conception of human settlement in this territory and its historical interaction with the environment. Read more about the project here >>>

Deutschlandradio Kultur – Navigating Radiales

by Raviv Ganchrow + Carsten Stabenow
broadcast premiere, August 29, 2025, Deutschlandradio Kultur

This audio montage consists of raw location recordings, with no added audio effects, tracing a research journey through Chile’s southernmost regions (Tierra del Fuego and Navarino Island) to the decommissioned radio station at Wulaia Bay.

DAP revista 2025-2026

DAP Airlines is supporting Terra Ignota since quite some time.
This year the project is featured in their annual magazine. (page 44 )

Antarctic Congresses 2025

X Latin American Congress of Antarctic Science +
XII Chilean Congress of Antarctic Research
From 28 July to 1 August 2025

During the last week of July, Valdivia will host the X Latin American Congress of Antarctic Science (CLCA) and the XII Chilean Congress of Antarctic Research (CCIA), two key events for scientific knowledge about the white continent. Both will be held at the Nahmías building on the Isla Teja Campus of the Universidad Austral de Chile and are organised by the IDEAL Centre, the Chilean Antarctic Institute (INACH) and the National Antarctic Research Council. The official inauguration will take place on Monday 28 July at 7pm at the Cervantes Theatre, and will bring together representatives from the academic, scientific and cultural world interested in the environmental dynamics of the southernmost part of the planet.

On this occasion, the transdisciplinary platform Terra Ignota has been invited to participate with an audiovisual intervention during the opening ceremony.