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Hablando con el río. Transcommunication with the grandfather Aburrá

This performance is a ritual of communication with the spirit of the Aburra River, with the non-human beings that amplify its multiple voices, and with the ancestors who inhabited and cared for it before its channelization. Cuando el rio suena, a work by Tania Candiani, will be the instrument of communication to bring together the present, pasts, and futures of the river, to contact it and listen to what this entity has to tell us. Spirits are not the dead; they are life manifesting in different registers and frequencies.

About Ana Ruiz Valencia

She is an improviser, musician, and curator based between Medellín and Bogota. Her practice addresses the role of language and communication in the creation of intersubjective realities, with a special interest in communications with non-human entities and spirits through vibratory phenomena. She has been invited to festivals and series such as Escucha! (ES), EES – The Quarantine Concerts (USA), Tsonami (CH), IN/OUT Festival (SZ-CO), Ultrasons (CA), ImprovFest (CA-MEX), and in Colombia to Bang on a Can Marathon, En Tiempo Real, Jornadas de Musica Contemporanea, Mujeres en la Musica Nueva, Transversal Sonora, Libres en el Sonido, Festival Este, and El marrano no se vende, among others. Ana is a violinist and improviser who graduated from the conservatory at the Universidad Nacional de Colombia, with studies at the Universite de Montreal and in improvisation with Malcolm Goldstein.