From 02 de October 2024 al 16 de February del 2025
The installation brings together sound recordings of walks through the city (around MAMM), collective breathing meditations, and sound improvisations with call sounds and birdsong from the region, made by a group of fourteen participants in a deep listening laboratory led by Ximena Alarcón in September. These sounds are interwoven with a data sonification process on air pollution levels in Medellín with PM2.5 particles during the first half of 2024, provided by the Medellín and Aburrá Valley Early Warning System (SIATA).
The data acts as cross-cutting sonic information in permanent movement that modifies its rhythms with the activation of proximity sensors located around Lab3: the greater the proximity and movement of visitors, the more the base sound space transforms. Therefore, the installation space is not only a place of contemplation but of bodily activation. Visitors influence the sonic dynamics of the space, symbolically reducing the density of particles and allowing the vital sounds of the city to become more audible. The work is activated through the body and breathing as a fusion of beings making the call to become air.
Huellas de aire invites us to reflect on our relationship with the air we share and how this air, charged with memory and life, connects with our emotions, health, and environment. As visitors move freely through the space, they become an active part of a commonwealth of breath, as described by philosopher David Abram. The installation proposes that, through the body, memory, and breath, we can learn to fly in reciprocity with the air, recognizing our interdependence with the urban and global ecosystem.
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About Ximena Alarcón
She explores the relationships between memory, migration, and ecology, using deep listening and sound improvisation as part of her method. With a PhD in Music, Technology, and Innovation from De Montfort University (England), she has developed projects such as Intimal, in which she explores the body and migratory memory through telematic installations and surround sound.
Artist acknowledgments: Adriana María Gutiérrez Grisales, Alejandro Ochoa Escobar, Isabella Ardila Sandoval, Esteban Penagos Avendaño, Juan Camilo Bernal, Santiago Gallego Escudero, Brenda I. Steinecke Soto, Simón Quintero Gutiérrez, Sofía Marín Ibarra, Daniel Upegui Flórez, Juliana Pinilla, María Rueda, José Julián Cadavid Sierra, Esteban Henao y Ron Herrema.
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