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![Naomi Rincón Gallardo, set photograph of Resiliencia Tlacuache [Opossum Resilience], 2019, HD video, color, sound, 16’01’’, courtesy Naomi Rincón Gallardo, photo: Claudia López Terroso](/static/0764346106751fbd348a4c148c56d65d/f4aa5/BB11-Naomi-Rinco%25CC%2581n-Gallardo_01-scaled.jpg)
Naomi Rincón Gallardo, set photograph of Resiliencia Tlacuache [Opossum Resilience], 2019, HD video, color, sound, 16’01’’, courtesy Naomi Rincón Gallardo, photo: Claudia López Terroso
![Teatro da Vertigem, Marcha à ré [Reverse Gear], 2020, performance at Paulista Avenue, São Paulo, BR, photo: Matheus José Maria](/static/3ec4f0afe1b179d27a11f77f793076fe/e2de3/dcf6dc8b-c4a2-4075-bf2c-fc5c9de63794-2.jpg)
![Brenda Fajardo, Alaala ni Erol, Bens, Julia, Jake atbp. Maging Matatag, Huwag Sumuko! [Memory of Erol, Bens, Julia, Jake, and Others. Be Courageous, (People who took their lives)], 2018, colored ink on paper, 28.3 × 40 cm, courtesy Brenda V. Fajardo; Tin-aw Art Management, Inc.](/static/f007c1924275cba8637125df55511cd2/f4aa5/BB11-Brenda-Fajardo_01-scaled.jpg)
![Aykan Safoğlu, Hundsstern steigt ab [Dog Star Descending], 2020, single-channel video installation, color, sound, 12’, courtesy Aykan Safoğlu](/static/6833cd35d292a73ebcd3254c9ffb2c0d/f4aa5/Aykan-Safo%25C4%259Flu_Still-from-Dog-Star-descending_15-scaled.jpg)
![Pedro Moraleida Bernardes, Enfim, Ganhei a Dádiva Divina [At Last, I Have Gained the Divine Gift], from the series Deleuze: Corpo Sem Órgãos [Deleuze: Body without Organs], 1998, acrylic, colored pencil and collage on paper, 78 × 108 cm, framed, courtesy Instituto Pedro Moraleida Bernardes, photo: Click Karlão](/static/602f94d0fcde8b2f2337bede9682bb84/f4aa5/BB11-Pedro-Moraleida-Bernardes_02-scaled.jpg)
![Edgar Calel in collaboration with Fernando Pereira dos Santos, Sueño de Obsidiana [Obsidian Dream], 2020, HD video, color, sound stereo, ca. 13’, © Sendero Filmes, courtesy Edgar Calel and Fernando Pereira dos Santos, photo: Chico Bahia](/static/d6d4605a7071119e6ca53f52116c3891/f4aa5/BB11-Edgar-Calel_03-scaled.jpg)
![Bartolina Xixa, Ramita Seca, La Colonialidad Permanente [Dry Twig, The Permanent Coloniality], 2019, HD video, color, sound, 5’07’’, courtesy Bartolina Xixa](/static/b1c9e42a62428cc539a663117361611a/b1e91/BB11-Bartolina-Xixa_02.jpg)
![Paula Baeza Pailamilla, Kurü Mapu [Black Land], 2018, documentation, Plaza de Armas, Santiago de Chile, courtesy Paula Baeza Pailamilla, photo: Lorna Remmele Riedel](/static/080856875cf793191fe7765b666d848d/05e06/BB11-Paula-Baeza-Pailamilla_01.jpg)
![Virginia Borges, Gil DuOdé, and Virginia de Medeiros, Ìyá Agbára [Strength of Mothers], 2020, 16mm film transferred to HD, color, sound, 11’32’’, courtesy Virginia Borges, Gil DuOdé, and Virginia de Medeiros](/static/48b4deddaad53420abb240b57bcf2ecd/e5ceb/BB11-Virginia-Borges_Gil-DuOde%25CC%2581_Virginia-de-Medeiros-Credits_06.jpg)
![Francisco Huichaqueo, Ilwen. Entuadpeyüm [The earth smells of father], 2013–15, super 8 transferred to HD, color, sound, 7’42’’, courtesy Francisco Huichaqueo](/static/ae85b4cb38074c2079c2a0292f6ac869/f4aa5/BB11-Francisco-Huichaqueo_02_klein-scaled.jpg)
![Ubirajara Ferreira Braga, A procissão [The Procession], 1995, gouache on paper, 47.8 × 65.7 cm, courtesy Complexo Hospitalardo Juquery – São Paulo State Government and Prefeitura de Franco da Rocha, BR](/static/9f09f0b7ef570fb3cf7eed6dcac5d119/f4aa5/BB11-Museu-de-Arte-Oso%25CC%2581rio-Cesar-Franco-da-Rocha_02-scaled.jpg)
View entrance corner tower, ExRotaprint (Gottschedstraße/Bornemannstraße), Berlin, 2019, photo: Daniela Brahm
Documentation
Sirenes Errantes: Servicio de Escuchasión [Listening Service]
Saturday, 25.7.2020– Sunday, 1.11.2020
www.escuchasion.space
Langauges: English, French, German, Portuguese, Quechua, Spanish
“Monday, May 4, 2020. I read and N drew, then I drew and N read. My feeling when reading was one of infinite intimacy and love, even though M was walking around. It was a moment that could be compared to making love to someone very dear and desired. Reading also took me back to the times when I read to M at night before going to sleep. It was wonderful.
I chose a story from Lucia Berlin’s A Manual for Cleaning Women named So Long, and I wanted to describe everything she wrote about: her lover, her children, her sister, New York, Mexico City.
Then, there were fifteen beautiful minutes of sounds, noises, silences, speaking an invented language, whispering, striking a tempo.
We finished … and dancing, I started cooking a big pumpkin bought at the UTT market, we talked with M, I roasted the seeds. I felt alive, happy, light.
When it was my turn to draw, I arranged an X-ray of my lungs as a surface, the bag of coarse salt, and a cushion. N read and I drew. Letting myself be impregnated by her voice, the words, the story. I was moving the salt, letting myself be touched by the voice. It was in a loud voice. I let myself go. Roads, forks, spirals appeared. Then the different noises appeared, little paper noises, objects. And I kept moving the image. Towards the end, I stopped and looked at it from different perspectives, and they all interested me. It was a magical moment. N told me that he took me for a walk around his house through the sounds.”
—From a Sirene Errante’s listening service logbook.
The Sirenes Errantes [Errant Mermaids] become a body with their voices, listening between breaths to allow feelings to emerge. We are a group that, since 2019, has carried out a genealogy of practices, actions, and encounters where salt, the body, the notion of mermaids, and a village of collective emotionality are deepened to find paths leading to the emergence of sensibilities in the social body.
In the present context, we are inventing along with the virus. Human distance is crossed by a re-encounter with technology as a bridge or digital patch of closeness. Time in quarantine interrupts chrononormality. We invented a Servicio de Escuchasión [Listening Service] that uses the power of the voice as a means of awareness, of fracturing time, and accompaniment. Will we be able to touch each other with words? We will become tongues of affective contagion, available to earthlings in need of it in these very special circumstances.
Servicio de Escuchasión offers a one-hour practice that combines a reading with drawing in coarse salt. It contemplates moments of silent perception and the production of textbooks. It is a service of affectionate voices among strangers, voices that whisper in the ear, that affect each other. Voices in search of finding a (un)determined closeness, a new lightness.
A little piece of land on the web, www.escuchasion.space, was launched on July 25, 2020. On this platform, it is possible to take turns accessing the service for free. We invite you to enter this site and the Servicio de Escuchasión. A Collective Sensitive Archive, which will create a record of these practices for the year 2020, will also be made available.
El primer nueva corónica y buen gobierno
Felipe Guamán Poma de Ayala
Chronicle
Teatro da Vertigem
Monograph
THE MOBILIZATION
Nicolás Cuello
Text
II: La Solidaridad va Más Allá de un Concepto. Entre las Curadoras de la XI Berlin Biennale
Lisette Lagnado, Agustín Pérez Rubio
Conversation
Glossary of Common Knowledge
L’Internationale Online
Glossary
Memorial to the Sinti and Roma of Europe murdered under National Socialism, Berlin, photos: Alex Ostojski
Memorial to the Sinti and Roma Victims of National Socialism
Dani Karavan
Memorial
