Category archives: research trips

This trip aimed to expand the experience of working with wind by involving a larger team. To this end, work was carried out on the installation anemOSC, which would later be called Wind Oscillator.

Additional footage was recorded for the project, which was subsequently titled Perspectives, and the idea began to take shape of establishing the territories of Patagonia, Fuegian Patagonia, and Cape Horn as recurring sites of work, eventually to be referred to as a Laboratory.

Participants: Eric Mattson (CA), Diego Cortés (CL), Diego Ahumada (CL), Nicolás Spencer (CL/DE) 

Supported by:
Consejo nacional de la cultura y las artes, linea de apoyo al desarrollo estatégico internacional, BKA / Für den Bundesminister für Kunst und Kultur, Verfassung und Medien

In early 2015, the first exploratory trip was made to the commune of Cape Horn, south of the Beagle Channel. The work revolves around the notion of distance—both cultural and geographical—and the materiality of wind, approached as a cultural object for interpreting the territory.

Based on this experience, Perspectivas was developed, a four-year audiovisual project that offers a subjective view of the territory. The apparent passivity of the image contrasts with a thunderous soundscape, creating tension between the romantic and stylised perception of nature and an approach closer to the industrial. The end of nature as landscape…

Project funded by:
BKA / For the Federal Minister for Arts and Culture, Constitution and Media. Austria.