Mixed game consists of the introduction of an enigmatic object and at the same time visually synthetic in various gaps in the landscape. The lack of reference points causes an uncertainty in reading the scale of what we see (it is uncomfortable not to be clear, to what extent what is seen is big or small). A spherical object, moving or static, introduced in a minimalist landscape, consisting of ice, sand or rock, induces several associations, opening an interpretive spectrum dependent on cultural and personal factors. It looks like an illusion, but the situation observed is real; It is not a digital simulation or photomontage.
1st stage, THE MOST DRY PLACE IN THE WORLD (Quillagua, Antofagasta region)
He says that a series of conditions made it even more interesting, related to the archaeological heritage, the indigenous culture, the geological phenomenon, the presence of the meteorite valley, the experience of the wind, weather, and the dramatic situation of its inhabitants. the last years: "For this, the first thing was to do exercises with the Golf Ball. Fourteen meters in diameter, linked to the (lack of) scale and (dis) proportion. A symbolic parallel could be made with the relationship between the workers and the English owners of nitrate mines in northern Chile during the nineteenth century and the middle of the twentieth. Engagement as a system of labor recruitment, the cards in the form of payment, the pulperías of the same owner of the nitrate and child labor, were practices of the unrecognized in Chile but real slavery. Along with medieval labor relations, which were not applicable in Europe at that time, absorbed by trade union and feminist movements, the British in the process of the second conquest in the New Continent, the industrial one, introduced the train, the charlestón, umbrellas and the custom of having afternoon tea.
The historical and social context: the over dimension of power and its alienation, the loss of proportion and the atavistic human need for hierarchization, together with the minimalist nature of the landscape, are the elements that constitute the genesis of the project and define the first intervention .
Mixed Game
Dagmara Wyskiel
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