*New podcast: conversation with Chilean sound artist Nicole L'Huillier
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In this podcast, we open up Nicole L'Huillier’
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https://rwm.macba.cat/en/sonia/sonia-362-nicole-lhuillier>s processes,
methodologies, and rituals, in conversation with old friends—Gloria
Anzaldúa, Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui, Gabriela Mistral, AM Kanngiesser—and
strangers. Their membrane-words caress and jolt us. Sounds, vibrations,
resonance, structures, and other multiple sensorial transductions invite us
to think up, amidst murmuring, other collective ways of being and
incarnations.
Link:
https://rwm.macba.cat/en/sonia/sonia-362-nicole-lhuillier
Chilean artist Nicole L'Huillier (b. 1985, Santiago, Chile) formulates an
antidisciplinary practice that takes up a position on boundaries,
generating a liminal and sensorial space in which categories such as
architecture, science, music and sound tend to break down and intertwine.
Thinking with “surlogics”—the logic of her native south— Nicole defends the
need to use multiple kinds of thinking at the same time, and embraces
mestizaje—by way of Gloria Anzaldúa—as a way of being and existing that is
rich and full of complexity and contradictions. The sense of constant
movement and of being outside of linearity has allowed her to unlearn the
rigidities of the Western canon and to go beyond anthropocentrism, to see
the world “through serpent and eagle eyes,” again in the words of Gloria
Anzaldúa.
This borderland gives rise to the idea of the membrane, a conceptual
apparatus and physical structure through which she articulates some of her
thought and her works. For Nicole, “a membrane is the space where things
come together and separate… but it is a space of resonance, not a rigid
wall. It is a wall that always vibrates, oscillates, exchanges, receives
ands transmits.” Different worldviews, temporalities, experiences, and
knowledge coexist and collide in this liminal and sensual space, taking
shape and becoming embodied in order to socialise through ritual and
sharing.
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