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This application is designed to distribute the content stored in rocks, wind, and the gaze of a subjective observer along 1000 km of the fire-patagonian territory. The platform functions as a map that transcends the three Cartesian planes that delimit it, managing information that integrates spatial, temporal, and sensory dimensions. This is an improved version ...

Caleta Wulaia, historical and archaeological evidence

Caleta Wulaia, historical and archaeological evidence

by Robert Carracedo Recasens Wulaia Cove is located south of the Murray or Yagashaga Channel, northeast of Ponsonby Seno, also called Agā́i̯ya by the Yaghan community. It is a cove sheltered from the south and southwest winds by a group of small islands and islets. It has abundant fresh water thanks to the Matanza River ...

Remote Listening

Remote Listening

by Florencia Curci During my stay in Wulaia, I repeatedly imagine the scene of the first radio transmission. I playfully extrapolate that late 19th-century moment in the United Kingdom, where a sound generated in Bristol (England) resonated in Pernath (Wales): for the first time, I can hear something happening simultaneously but outside my immediate surroundings. ...

Complexities of the wind

Complexities of the wind

by Nicolas Spencer This research aims to get in tune with the intensities, turbulence and heterogeneity of the the masses of moving air based in Wulaia/Ponsonby. I would like to generate experiences that allow us, in a sensitive way and with rudimentary technologies, to tune in to (1) the complexity of chaotic movements that make up the ...

Whale Refractions

Whale Refractions

Whale Refractions is a research project currently underway at the Centre for Advanced Study inherit based at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Questions of addressing ‘heritage at large’ grew out of previous itterations of the Terra Ignota platform while observing oscillatory interrelations between humans and marine mammals and evolutions of cetacean underwater hearing in the historical and geological and climate contexts ...

Forum: Traces and Encounters 

Forum: Traces and Encounters 

> projects / 2025 / radiales / Preliminary Visit / Emerging Archive / Historic Background / Forum / Documentation / Participants Open dialog Between Art, Science and the Museum.Date: 5 and 6 February from 18:00 – 20:00Venue: Museo Territorial Yagán Usi – Martín González CalderónAragay corner Gusinde, Puerto Williams, Chile. ...

Cultural and historical background of the area

Cultural and historical background of the area

> projects / 2025 / radiales / Visita Preliminar / Archivo Emergente / Antecedentes Históricos / Foro / Documentación / Participantes Robert Carracedo et al. The Murray Channel, formerly known as Yagashaga or Yagán Channel, is a silent witness to a vast cultural heritage that stretches from the ancestral past to the recent historical past. ...

Emerging Archive

Emerging Archive

> projects / 2025 / radiales / Preliminary Visit / Emerging Archive / Historic Background / Forum / Documentation / Participants The idea is to understand the heritage as something living, as an activity inscribed in otherness. We are interested in conceiving the distinctive and emerging characteristics of these ecosystems and establishing new definitions necessary ...

Radiales

Radiales

> projects / 2025 / radiales / Preliminary Visit / Emerging Archive / Historic Background / Forum / Documentation / Participants Radiales is the name of the new project by Terra Ignota, extending the geological research “Intercultural Contact Zone” conducted between 2017 and 2024 in Yendegaia National Park. This project continues the transdisciplinary study as ...

Extinction!? – documentation

Extinction!? – documentation

>> Background Before the research trip to the Zona de Contacto Intercultural, Fernanda Olivares and Nicolás Spencer were invited to participate in a residency at Weltmuseum Wien to be part of the exhibition “Extinction!?” as part of the TAKING CARE project. The idea of this residency was to work with objects from the collections obtained by Martin Gusinde and Carl Hagenbeck and explore new museographic ...

Extinction!? – background

Extinction!? – background

The origin of this work dates back to 2015, following a visit to the Gusinde-Hagenbeck collection consisting of cultural objects originally belonging to the Kawesqar, Selk’nam, Yagán and and Aonikenk peoples, which are now housed in the Weltmuseum, Vienna (formerly the anthropological museum). The review of this collection was initially conducted by Alfredo Prieto and ...

Extinction!?

Extinction!?

In 2022, Fernanda Olivares and Nicolás Spencer were invited to participate in a residency at Weltmuseum to be part of the exhibition “Extinction!?” as part of the TAKING CARE project. The idea of this residency was to work with the objects belonging to the collections obtained by Martin Gusinde and Carl Hagenbeck and explore new ...

Rocas

Rocas

A sound installation by Nicolás Spencer made up of 44 stones in suspension – all collected from Fiordo Témpano north of Puerto Edén to Cabo de Hornos and about to be returned to the place where they were found. In addition to being considered part of the living heritage of the southern territory, the rocks ...

Oscillators

Oscillators

by Nicolas Spencer Archaeology is a scientific discipline that studies human behavior through the recovery, analysis, and interpretation of past and present material and cultural remains. The wind oscillator is a tool that considers this natural force as a cultural object, providing clues about human activity where it resonates. The numbers represent the distance in centimeters ...

Cerro Otten

Cerro Otten

This project is an archaeological prospection in Cerro Otten, Última Esperanza, Magallanes, Chile – following the discovery of rock-paintings by Alfredo Prieto in 2022. Despite being located in an easily accessible territory close to inhabited places, the area features numerous unexplored valleys and favorable conditions for discovering rich archaeological sites. The study is aiming to document Prieto’s findings and to establish ...

Preliminary Visit (Bahia Wulaia)

Preliminary Visit (Bahia Wulaia)

> projects / 2025 / radiales / Preliminary Visit / Emerging Archive / Historic Background / Forum / Documentation / Participants In preparation for the Radiales project (2025) we did an initial field trip in March 2024 in order to familiarize ourselves with the territory, to meet with the local community, partners and friends, to ...

Polar

Polar

Artistic vision  The Antarctic continent is the one continent that is still seemingly secluded from the rest of the world. It was the last great land mass discovered by humans and uninhabited until the beginning of its colonization in the early 1820s. For decennia, it has served as a collaborative research territory, governed and safeguarded ...

3D scans TDF 2023

Alero el Paso – Rock shelter (69.060330ºW, 54.605527ºS, MAMSL 572)LIDAR scan with Scaniverse, IPad Pro 11″, March 08 2023(download .fbx file, 87,7 MB) CMT1_BB2 – Tree mark (69.138833ºW, 54.550670ºS, MAMSL 1)LIDAR scan with Scaniverse, IPad Pro 11″, March 12 2023(download .fbx file 35,2 MB) CMT2_BB2 – Tree mark (69.139301ºW, 54.551048ºS, MAMSL 1)LIDAR scan with Scaniverse, ...

exhibition

exhibition

> projects / 2024 / contact zones / conference / exhibition / participants The exhibition at UMAG documents results and different methodologies developed around the discovery of the Intercultural Contact Zone (ICZ) in the Yendegaia National Park. The expedition(s) carried out by the Terra Ignota team (2021 and 2023) confirmed the existence of a transit ...

conference

conference

> projects / 2024 / contact zones / conference / exhibition / participants 13.3.24 Projection: Heritage as an Activity Ideas and strategies to address a challenging question of heritage and environmental responsibility will be discussed. Terra Ignota Forum proposes to conceive spaces as dynamic and adaptable fields with the power to regenerate and reprogram themselves ...

Conatct Zones

Conatct Zones

> projects / 2024 / contact zones / conference / exhibition / participants Terra Ignota Forum 2024Facultades de Ingeniería y Ciencias, Universidad de Magallanes Manuel Bulnes 01855, Punta Arenas Exhibition March 13 – June 13 (Opening, March 13 7 p.m.) (details >>>)Forum March 13 – 15 (program details >>>) Terra Ignota Forum (TIF) proposes a multidimensional ...

TIF UACh 2023

TIF UACh 2023

The Terra Ignota Forum (TIF) is a knowledge transfer and training program with the communities of the Magallanes Region and Chilean Antarctica. The project was developed around the discovery of the Intercultural Contact Zone (ICZ) found in 2021 in Yendegaia National Park by the Terra Ignota team. The discovery confirmed the existence of a passage ...

Sonic Islands

Sonic Islands

Mirrored perceptions between Tierra del Fuego + RügenMarch and September 2023 Objects in mirror are closer than they appear (unknown automobile producer) Important for the Terra Ignota project is the aspect of mediation. How can this artistic-scientific knowledge production be translated for a wider audience? What are suitable formats for public presentation? How can results ...

Terra Ignota Forum 2023/24

Terra Ignota Forum 2023/24

Terra Ignota Forum (TIF) is a field laboratory that seeks to develop and implement a contemporary archive on the so-called “intercultural contact zone” (Selk’nam, Kawesqar and Yagán) located in Yendegaia National Park (YNP). The project is deployed in two stages, the first is the continuation of our interdisciplinary research in the territory and field forum ...

TIF 2023 background

TIF 2023 background

For years, the pass between Yendegaia and Admiralty Sound had been the subject of attention as a possible “Indian pass”, a route of communication between the different ethnic groups that passed through these areas. This had been attested to by the English missionaries Thomas Bridges and Fred Lawrence at the end of the 19th century ...