MADRAGOA
Phantom Recorder
Madragoa at CONDO São Paulo hosted by Central Galeria
Installation view
Installation view
Adrián Balseca, "Phantom Recorder", 2018
Adrián Balseca, "Phantom Recorder", 2018
Adrián Balseca, "Phantom Recorder", 2018
Adrián Balseca, "Phantom canoe", 2018
Adrián Balseca, "Phantom canoe", 2018
1 February – 21 March 2020
Press release

 

For CONDO São Paulo 2020 Madragoa presents Phantom Recorder, an installation by Adrián Balseca hosted by Central Galeria.

 

Phantom Recorder is a collaborative project with Kara Solar, an initiative of the Latin American Association for Alternative Development in alliance with the Achuar Nationality of Ecuador. The work revolves around a device designed to collect the sounds produced by different living organisms on the banks of the Bobonaza River, in the provice of Pastaza.
Informed by post-colonialism, Balseca’s work is a symbolic inversion of the celebrated voyage in Werner Herzog’s lm Fitzcarraldo (1982), where — in the depths of the Amazon jungle — the protagonist attempts to enchant the natives by playing the arias from the opera Caruso on his gramophone.

 

 

PT

 

No CONDO São Paulo 2020 a Galeria Madragoa apresenta Phantom Recorder, uma instalação de Adrián Balseca acolhida pela Central Galeria.

 

Phantom Recorder é um projeto em colaboração com Kara Solar, uma iniciativa da Latin American Association for Alternative Development em articulação com a Achuar Nationality of Ecuador. O trabalho desenvolve-se em torno de um equipamento desenhado para recolher os sons produzidos pelos diferentes organismos vivos nas margens do rio Bobonaza, na província de Pastaza, e é simbolicamente uma inversão da famosa viagem representada no filme de Werner Herzog “Fitzcarraldo” de 1982, onde, nos confins da selva amazónica o protagonista tenta encantar os nativos ao tocar no seu gramofone as árias da ópera Caruso.

 

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