Achaeoscillator_Towards incorporeal forms of sensing listening and gaze

Achæoscillator_Towards Incorporeal Forms of Sensing, Listening and Gaze is an ongoing research and AR/VR immersive installation that uses the natural energies and drastic conditions of the southernmost island on Earth to build a virtualized representation of the end/start of the Americas. A virtual hub to travel, as a one-person experience, to the remote island of Cape Horn, 55°57’49.6”S 67°13’09.9”W, where extreme weather conditions offer inestimable and uncontrollable evidence of Gaia’s power. Terra Ignota Research Group focuses on these inputs to create site-specific monumental installations which visitors to the festival will experience through virtual reality.

The purpose of this research is to trace the presence and significance of acoustic phenomena in relation to the myths and beliefs of indigenous populations present in Tierra del Fuego, the interethnic traces are bio-cultural routes to the past, especially as pertains to the ancestors of the Yagán, the Kawesqar and the Selk’nam in the Almirantazgo Sound area. Attention is also brought to how the Antarctic, Scotia and South America continental plates collide there. The presentation consists of curated text and video essays with local and reknown archaeologists, geologists, seismotectonicists, curators and artists.

Santiago Museum of Contemporary Art

Established in 1947, the Santiago Museum of Contemporary Art is one of the city’s major museums and run by the University of Chile’s Department of Fine Art.

Terra Australis Ignota was born to explore unconventional ways of reading the southernmost territory on the planet through the interdisciplinary integratation of local communities, science and art.