An Embrace to Awake
What happens when sounds from the past touch the present? Resonaciones begins by awakening the sounds and frequencies made by whistling vessels from the Andean Moche culture, held at the Linden Museum Stuttgart. They are brought to life by the artists Nicole L’Huillier and Francisca Gili, under the guidance of the Mochica healer and cultural activist Karen Urcia.
1 Stops
Stuttgart, Germany
ifa-Galerie Stuttgart
2023/24
17.11.–25.02.
3 Contributors
Carolina Arévalo (Kuratorin) ,
Bettina Korintenberg (ifa-Galerie Stuttgart),
Concept
Karen Urcia Arroyo (Mochica-Heilerin und Kulturaktivistin),
Kooperation
About the exhibiton
Through processes of listening and the sensory reception of these sounds, and of transformation and imagination, the ifa Gallery becomes an immersive soundscape. The centuries-old technology of the whistling vessels, with their ability to communicate with non-human life forms is combined with today’s technologies – including artificial intelligence. In a gesture of returning, the sounds will travel to Huaca de la Luna (Temple of the Moon) in Peru, which is a key site for Moche culture, providing an impulse to ask new questions concerning the colonial past and present and also to look for traces of the dawn of a new age and spaces of the future.
Artistic and curatorial ensemble:
Nicole L’Huillier (artist), Francisca Gili (artist and anthropologist), Carolina Arévalo (curator), Bettina Korintenberg (curator)
Guided by Karen Urcia Arroyo (Mochica healer and cultural activist)
With contributions by: Gabriel Rossell Santillán (artist), Luis A. Muro Ynoñán (archaeologist), Manaswi Mishra (artist and researcher)