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#xenotaphXenotafio. ¿Qué quiere la tierra, el suelo, la materia supuestamente muerta de la tierra?
Residencias Remotas, Escuela de Arquitectura, Universidad Andrés Bello (UNAB, Chile)19/ago/2024 - 6/dic/2024
Research residency, Installation
w/ Carla Arévalo, Carlos Pastor, Carlos Vial, Carolina Marchant, Dorian Z. Bell, Erick A. Víquez,
Javier Peña, Luis Alejandro Sánchez Rivera, Luis Richmond, Matías Magnere, Richard Gerald-Rondón, Sadoon Al-Obaidi, Ximena Astorga This research and experimentation residency examined the entanglements between living and non-living agents in an industrial microforest within a cement factory, where mineral dust accumulates on tree leaves, settles into soil, and fosters hybrid vegetal-mineral assemblages. These transformations reflect a broader planetary shift: the biosphere has already been surpassed in mass by anthropogenic materials, with concrete and its aggregates now outweighing all living matter on Earth. Framed within deep-time perspectives, this research and material experimentation residency considers cement not just as a modern material but as the outcome of millennia of sedimentation, linking extraction and construction to the origins of death rather than life. See more ↗