The relationship between vision and power.
by Nicolas Spencer
Wind / Pier / 13 packing straps
This installation is part of a practice oriented toward giving form to the relationships of intensity and turbulence contained in air masses. It is the result of previous works: Osciladores, the Telúrica prototypes, Estudio de campo: complejidades del viento (2025) and Radiales (2025).
Continue reading “Framing”by Raviv Ganchrow and Carsten Stabenow
Whale Refractions engages with circuited operations (Ganchrow 2024) and diffuse continuities discernible in mammalian thalassic agency. It addresses complex planetary dynamics, involving coupled organic-inorganic oscillations cutting across temporal, geological and technological domains. Spatial-material dimensions of those operations come into sharpened focus while refracting through Magallanes contexts and sub-Antarctic tectonics.
Whale Refractions adopts sound as a guide on a journey through planetary ‘heritage at large’, tracing shifting relations in human-whale attentions, late Gondwana geology, cetacean and auditory morphogenesis, Eocene global warming, oxide-based recording techniques and piezoelectric oceanic surveillance, all entwining through a set of undulations typical to the Age of Mammals.
Continue reading “Whale Refractions II”Plastic is not a neutral material. As a cultural artifact, it is among the most legible products of the modern era, not because it was designed to persist, but because it was designed not to. The gap between intended ephemerality and actual durability is not incidental. It is structural, and it is the condition this small project works within.
Continue reading “Plasticity”This document describes an ongoing, experimental effort. The tool and methodology are currently in active development and field testing.
Working in Heritage-Dense Territory
Terra Ignota’s projects take place in territories where layers of human presence — ancient and recent — are written into the landscape. Moving through such environments, even with non-invasive methods and an ecological rather than archaeological orientation, carries the responsibility to notice and to document. That reality calls for care, and for close collaboration with the experts and community institutions that hold responsibility for local heritage knowledge. It is out of this ongoing commitment that we started developing a lightweight, open-source mobile GIS survey tool — a practical methodological response to the specific demands of working in these landscapes. In the frame of CAZ we started to work on that idea together with Robert Carracedo Recasens.
Continue reading “Developing a Mobile GIS Survey Tool”Radiales understands Bahía Wulaia and Seno Ponsonby as a living archive, where landscape, wind, water, and rock record signals of cultural and natural information. The project interprets heritage as a dynamic process of transmission: the place becomes both receiver and transmitter of experiences, knowledge, and memories, able to connect with the community and transcend the physical and temporal limits of the territory.
Continue reading “radio (Wulaia)”
