14.484.543 pasos

Video realized in the company of the artists: 

Adrián Villa Dávila, Mónica Naranjo Uribe, Edgar Guzmanruiz

Music by: Ricardo Narváez / Holman Álvarez / Mauricio Ramírez

10.50 min.

Video

2019

 

Commissioned video for the regional meeting of the Alumni DAAD (Colombia, Cuba, Ecuador, Mexico, Peru, Venezuela): 250 years of Alexander von Humboldt: Cosmos or chaos? Scientific descriptions of the world today.
Meeting that took place from May 10 to 12. 

 

 

In the piece 14,484,543 pasos the character of contemporary "trips" is revealed, visualizing in a virtual model the places that Humboldt travelled in his travels through the Americas.

Technology transports us through an aseptic and controlled world, where the senses are reduced to the movement of crawling fingers and the body is limited to a digital window.
The approximately 14,484 kilometres of American territory explored mainly on foot by Humboldt and his companions, vertiginous modified in the last 250 years, are travelled from the immobility and comfort of a computer.

The audio of the video recreates in part the musical Zeitgeist of the Humboldt era. The interpretation freely transforms the melodies and rhythms of the regions where the researchers passed.