Journey in the Great Archipelago is a map by Dr. Alfredo Prieto and Cristian Espinoza based on John Bartholomew’s Atlantic map tracing a journey of early humanity from the centre of Africa to Tierra del Fuego during the Würm glaciation.
Where we have been taught to see dismembered, distant, sometimes colliding bodies, which we have called islands and continents; we see a single archipelago. Humanity, seen in a single great movement, appears to us from here as a continuous spread. A movement of hundreds of thousands of years of advancing, returning and learning technologies to deepen their way of inhabiting the archipelago.
Sometimes when travellers diverge, they forget their unity after several generations. And when they converge again, they find it difficult to recognise the other travellers as part of the same humanity.
map by C. Espinoza, animated by Mario Campos Castellano
voice by Jasmine Guffond, recorded by Kerstin Ergenzinger
sound of Ignota Logger: archeological data transmition and human made radio electromagnetic sonification captured in Arkona, Rügen also participated Víctor Mazón Gardoqui, Florencia Curci and Nicolás Spencer