Brújula

Brújula (Compass)

Curated by Raphael Fonseca, Yina Jiménez Suriel, Tiago Sant’AnaPorto, and Fernanda Mdeiros,

Porto Alegre (Brasil).

Brújula is a navigational instrument for vibrational attunement. In its center, it holds an elastic membrane that behaves both as a (contact) microphone and a (soft buzzer) speaker –a sensitive skin that listens to its environment itself as it simultaneously diffuses a very soft composition through its surface. It follows a principle of giving and receiving (vibrations), embodying resonant dualities and reciprocities, embracing entangled multiplicities and contradictions. This instrument serves as a “compass” for tuning into our vibrational realities through feedback, noise, and relationality as it resonates, rotates, and behaves like a drum.

Brújula is at once a navigational instrument, a musical instrument, and a relational instrument that enacts a metabolic appropriation and reimagination of Western scientific instruments. Instruments that have been created and used under the logic of linear navigation, extractive discovery, and categorical precision have led to devastating and destabilizing consequences from early transoceanic enterprises to space exploration. What if the instruments we use to navigate the cosmos were founded in different paradigms? What if they were calibrated otherwise? Would we unveil different ways of being and thinking? Would we follow other guiding principles? By asking these questions, Brújula proposes a series of instruments to navigate our vibrational reality through the paradigm of vibrational intelligences, logics, languages, and codes. Codes that are, in essence, resonant, relational, unclear, incommensurable, noisy, confusing, unstable, oscillatory, multiple, generative, pulsating, and interdependent.