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Formas Series (2022)


Configuración 3: Uróboros

Medium

Sound, sculpture, installation, and performance

Materials

Found metal, broken drum, broken guitar amplifier, electronics

Collaborators

Cristóbal Garcia Belmont: installation, sound performance, sculptures, and electronic Alejandro Medina: Light installation
Lautaro Mantilla: Guitar improvisation
Weihan Jiang: videography

Dimensions
Variable

Description
In this iteration of the work,the electroacoustic sculptures, Uróboros, built with found materials

and an acoustic feedback circuit were used as conversational instruments in a free music

concert with the guitar improviser Lautaro Mantilla. Through months of resonating with the Uróboros, the artist starts to understand the self-awareness of instruments through the instability of feedback systems as a consciousness.

The mythology of the amphisbaena inspired this performance—commonly found in pre-Columbian cultures around South America, the amphisbaena portrays the intricacy of contrasts. The being has

two heads with distinct consciousnesses but still share the same body; in this particular work, this happens through vibration. In this performance, the performer and the sculptures represent an amphisbaenic being interacting with itself and others.