16 Mar Stephanie Kyek
Residency Program: September 2022
Stephanie arrives in Blanca with the intention of mapping the territory through the sound and tactile experience. She scans the environment and stops to try to understand, through other senses, the place she is visiting.
She stops, listens, explores, feels, listens again and finally composes her own map with her records.
Identifying a series of sounds in a territory, or trying to define it through them, is presented as a challenge whose result has little to do with visual cartographies.
While these last ones are devices that fix an interpretation of the territory, they function as devices of truth that, with such a real and detailed appearance, make us forget reality itself, that is, what that map contains, what inhabits it, the experience.
Stephanie’s sound mapping, on the other hand, is ephemeral and elusive, the load of her subjective perception does not attempt to become fallible data or the concretion of a reality. But it is precisely these features that alert us to the imperative power of visual cartography. A sound map might give a different approach. It might integrate us into the experience of a territory that is absolutely indefinable by a few strokes, however precise they might be.
