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01-10-21
BIENALSUR PRESENTS EXPANDED REALITIES AT THE MUNTREF ART AND SCIENCE CENTER

Under the Digital Worlds/Ecological Awareness curatorial axis, the exhibition, which has been open to the public since October 2, brings together works by Bruno Mesz and Sebastián Tedesco, Leandro Garber and Gala González, and the SIERVA collective.

BIENALSUR 2021, the International Biennial of Contemporary Art from the South, born at the National University of Tres de Febrero (UNTREF), presents the exhibition Expanded Realities at the MUNTREF Center for Art and Science of Tecnópolis. Curated by Paula Hrycyk, the proposal focuses on the intersections of art, science and technology, and how transdisciplinary projects can expand perspectives and questions about reality.

Under the curatorial axis Digital Worlds/Ecological Awareness, the exhibition presented at KM 13 of BIENALSUR brings together works that reveal hidden aspects of gastronomy, speech and scientific instruments. Emotional tableware, by Bruno Mesz and Sebastián Tedesco, is an installation inspired by the conceptual design of tableware that explores the use of digital devices at the table, conceived from the results of a cognitive pretest on cross-modal correspondences generated by musical emotions, and aimed at creating gastronomic multisensory atmospheres.

On the other hand, Audioestellar + Transorganic Exchanges. Latent structures in the complex nature of speech, by Leandro Garber and Gala González, is conceived as an experiment in which the public takes a strong role. The project includes the recording of fragments of the voices of the visitors, in order to create an interactive constellation of diverse voices, which in turn is generated through the use of artificial intelligence algorithms.

As the artists explained, the purpose is that the voices can be related based on criteria other than the common ones, which can be gender or healthy voice/sick voice, taking other parameters such as the variation of frequency, spectrum, amplitude and length in the different levels (phrase, word and phoneme) to generate new groupings. During the tour, the public will be able to interact with this constellation of voices through body movement, being able to listen to the multiple voices of visitors that make up the constellation.

Finally, Technoscience at the service of optical aberrations, by the SIERVA collective, consists of a photographic series of instruments used in scientific research. The project includes large-scale portraits of nine devices used in a biology laboratory, images of the instruments of a museum laboratory taken from the researcher’s point of view on backlit tables, and photographs of the most paradigmatic machine in the techno-scientific field to see and allow to look, the microscope.

Expanded Realities is an exhibition that proposes an immersive experience in the journeys of researchers and artists. Experiments, stories and workshops bring the public closer to the processes that research teams go through to conduct their inquiries and the way in which collaborative actions are deployed between actors from various fields and disciplines. Research on the relationship between constellations of sounds and voices, emotions, digital devices and ways of representing reality, invite us to expand our senses and give free rein to our curiosity about the environment of which we are a part”, highlights the curatorial text.

The sample can be visited free of charge from October 2 on Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays and holidays from 12:00 to 8:00 p.m., with prior reservation on the Tecnópolis website (https://tecnopolis.gob.ar/).

BIENALSUR 2021 takes place simultaneously in more than 124 venues, 23 countries and 50 cities around the world from July to December, with the intervention of around 400 artists.

BIENALSUR now has its online channel, BIENALSUR.TV, with free access and more than 300 hours of exclusive audiovisual content. The platform is a window to the contemporary artistic-cultural scene and contains debates and dialogues with its referents, tours of the BIENALSUR exhibitions, behind the scenes of its projects and reflections of the participating artists and curators.

These contents are curated by Diana Wechsler and produced by UNTREF Media. The public will be able to find high-quality audiovisual pieces organized in different categories: Documentaries, Openings, Meetings, Dialogues, Reflections and Projects.