Artwork
Wide-Screen Projection and Immersive Sound
Made with Fotosíntesis Colombia
Fluir (to flow) is an immersive audiovisual installation created with Fotosíntesis Colombia and presented on September 26, 2018 at the Museo de Arte de la Universidad Nacional de Colombia in Bogotá, as part of the exhibition Conjuro de Ríos. A 21-meter screen and sixteen speakers placed the audience inside the journey of a single drop of water, from glacier to sea.
The film begins in the high mountains of Colombia, where the glacier lives. As it melts, it meets the water of the páramos and becomes a river, flowing down through forests and valleys until it reaches the ocean.
Then a human construction, a dam, cuts the flow and brings death to the land downstream. In a dystopian ending the dam collapses, its walls explode, and the water wins over humanity, finding its own path to freedom.
- Projection: a 21 by 4 meter wide screen.
- Sound: immersive sound across 16 channels plus 2 subwoofer channels.
- Control: the sound system was run in Max/MSP.
Full Show Video
The complete 13-minute piece. At the museum the sound was played over 16 channels plus 2 subwoofer channels; this video carries an edited stereo mix of that soundscape, so headphones are recommended.
Images
Presented at:
Museo de Arte de la Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá, in the exhibition Conjuro de Ríos, the fourth exhibition of the Selva cosmopolítica project, curated by María Belén Sáez de Ibarra. Opened on September 26, 2018 and on view until June 2019.
The team:
Sebastian Gonzalez Dixon: Sound installation development, sound design, and direction of the installation of the full immersive experience
Fotosíntesis film crew: Video production and artistic direction of the piece, led by Alejandro Calderón
