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Habūb (Writings of Sand and Water)
Director:
Carmen Gil Vrolijk
Country:
Colombia
Project type:
Immersive Installation
Description:
Haboobs are immense clouds of sand that travel great distances driven by strong winds…
The imagery of the Amazon has traditionally been built around hundreds of white, colonial voices, which, like the sands have crossed the air and the seas, to reach the jungle, to admire it, to exploit it… to get lost inside of her. Rereading “La Vorágine” (The Vortex), 100 years after it was written by Jose Eustasio Rivera, Habūb is part of the “Vorágine Expandida” cycle commissioned by the National Centre for the Arts and is an immersive work that makes a poetic reflection from music, soundscape, video mapping and performance.
Carmen Gil Vrolijk
Transdisciplinary artist and curator, she works at the Art Department of the Universidad de los Andes as an associate professor. Carmen has been creating media arts projects since the late nineties, focusing on performing arts mediated by technology, immersive formats, experimental narratives, and the poetics of technology. From 2014 to 2023, she was the head curator of Voltaje (Art and Technology Salón) and has curated several media arts shows. She’s the artistic director of La Quinta del Lobo and Expanded Arts Ensemble. Her work has been exhibited globally. She's also the artistic director of RETA.HEX, the national network of technodiversities and hybrid and expanded arts.