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.
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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.
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In the southernmost territories of South America, the nomadic platform Terra Ignota offers a new approach to exploration through radical listening and collective unlearning. For over a decade, Terra Ignota has challenged conventional methodologies, replacing fixed questions with the fluid act of walking, listening, and engaging with the landscape. In this space, rocks, wind, and found objects become living archives, carrying untold stories and traces of memory.
This interview is part of the southernests series, which explores how certain artistic gestures – through listening, drifting and publishing – activate community or affective bonds across South America. Each piece begins by revisiting personal materials from the interviewee’s archive. These are not private keepsakes, but forms of inscription. Fragments that can blur the line between the intimate and the public, condensing ways of life, embodied knowledge and situated modes of transmission. In this sense, publishing becomes a way of making that blurs the visible and reorganising the common.
Text by Florerncia Curci
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Raviv Ganchrow – Tierra del Fuego Oceanic Reverb
7.5.2025, 19:00, https://videogram.favu.vut.cz/raviv-ganchrow
How do shifting relations between mammals, climate and geology refract through whale sounds and what interlinks those sounds with seabed topographies and ocean structure? How is human involvement with piezoelectric and oxide minerals conductive of underwater listening and how does such hearing alter maritime and coastal techniques? This talk sets these questions in dialogue with recent insights from the Whale Refractions research project, following experimental hydrophone recordings in the sub-Antarctic archipelago of Tierra del Fuego.
Videogram is a lecture series on contemporary modes of art, curatorial and artistic practice and theory.
Media echo Whale Refractions
The first stage of research project Whale Refractions in the Francisco Coloane Marine Park and in colaboration with WhaleSound Foundation generated some media echos.
Particular recognition was given to its significance in the context of international and national efforts to protect the oceans: “This research, […] plays a crucial role in raising public awareness of these species, many of which are at risk. Furthermore, they provide the necessary impetus for the creation of laws and policies to address the serious threats they face, such as plastic pollution, shipping traffic and oil and gas extraction. A recent study published in the journal Marine Policy revealed that Chile has the highest whale mortality rate due to collisions with vessels worldwide, particularly in the Magallanes region.
In light of this alarming regional situation, Carlos Valladares (from WhaleSound Foundation) emphasised: “We are at a crucial juncture for the environment in our country, particularly with the creation of the SBAP. The local Regional Ministerial Secretariat for the Environment is working to bring together the various stakeholders in the southern maritime region to develop better planning policies – something that is currently virtually non-existent.”
Valladares emphasises the importance of collaboration in this endeavour, stating that ‘every contribution helps to achieve the common goal, not only that of international scientists, but also that of local professionals and citizen scientists.” (Austerra Society)
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Nicolas Spencer – Terra Ignota: Art, nature, and research through clouds
6.11.2024, 19:00 – https://videogram.favu.vut.cz/terra-ignota
Nicolás Spencer will share the creation and research processes of Terra Ignota, a transdisciplinary research platform that explores the relationships between culture, nature, knowledge, and their different forms of representation. Terra Ignota began in 2015, emerging from the practices of gatherings and meetings of a dynamic group of artists, scientists, curators, and producers, based on a recurring nomadic laboratory in the southernmost territory of the Americas.
Videogram is a lecture series on contemporary modes of art, curatorial and artistic practice and theory.
Resonace FM – Sonic Darts # Terra Ignota
Resonance Extra – Sonic Darts with Gwaith Swn is presenting Terra Ignota Monday 6th November 2023 22:00 – 23:00 GMT. Edited by Victor Mazon.
Journey in the great archipelago
Journey in the Great Archipelago is a map by Dr. Alfredo Prieto, Cristian Espinoza, and the production of Nicolás Spencer, 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.
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