UN AGUJERO EN MI JARDÍN
UN AGUJERO EN JARDÍN
An experimental installation to think of all the processes and exchanges that take place underground, a natural laboratory beyond human control. Can we slip through a hole and walk under the garden?
PROPOSAL
The proposal is to shed our human skin and cross the room through a tunnel made of mycelium skin. The mycelium weaves a non-visible network, underneath the garden, generating symbiotic relationships between fungi, trees, plants, insects, bacteria ..... The installation proposes a material, light and sound experience made of invisible processes, of growths and transformations... The mycelium skin sounds when it dries, contracts, when it receives water, begins to expand again, a delicate but immense network that connects life in natural ecosystems.
To enter the space is to wander in that fragility, a space of tissues in process, a place to be aware of the vulnerability of the environment we inhabit and of which we are a part.
The installation integrates a sound composition with field recordings captured with geophones in the substratum of the Amsterdamse Bos, an artificial forest on the outskirts of Amsterdam. This subacoustic world emerges in the room through the vibration of the floor and the oculus, turning the piece into a listening space where sound invites to perceive with the whole body what normally remains out of hearing
CREDITS
Project by: Raquel Buj and Elena Rocabert
With sound artist: Luis lecea
Project management: Istituto Europeo di Design, IED Madrid
Developed in the context of: Madrid Design Fest, MDF at Institución Libre de enseñanza, ILE
Production team: Elena Rocabert and Raquel Buj; Materials Experimentation students of the Istituto Europeo di Design, IED Madrid: Macarena de Jesús Alfaro Vergara, Camila Escurra, Emma Guillem Colls, Ana Herrán Bocanegra, Paola Andrea López Pastrana, Sara Mateos Vara, Rafael Perelmuter, Ana Schiavi and Ana Cristina Turriza Galván.
Biomaterial consulting: María Mallo
Photos: Asier Rua and Diego Navas