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The techonology are we all (La tecnología somos nosotrxs)

Sala Proceso, CCE Azuay, Cuenca, Ecuador 15th March until May 25th 2018

Review

If, to define our species, we strictly follow what history and prehistory present to us as a constant characteristic of man and intelligence, we would not speak of man as Homo sapiens, but as Homo faber. Henri BergsonThe project Technology we are seeks to resituate the relationship between Homo faber and the world, leaving the colonial narrative and inventing, or rediscovering, other imaginaries and practices.

“The human is the animal that makes tools (faber), which uses technology – it is not the only one on earth, but the most prolific – while thought (sapiens) is a capacity of many beings, even plants. For that reason, authors such as Hannah Arendt or Henri Bergson consider the name Homo faber more appropriate than Homo Sapiens for the species.Today, what for millennia was of common good or natural magic, has become unbalanced, becoming a voracious machine that is ending with the cultural and biological diversity of our planet, facing this new colonialism, art proposes strategies of subversion: other uses of technology that point to spaces of imaginative and formal autonomy, to hi / low tech, to ancestrofuturism and to collectivity as relationship and story. ”

The audiovisual installation TELEFANTE, by Juan Orozco and Luis Negroón, connects different times and geographies through the meeting of old and contemporary technologies in a cardboard box

“We need to decolonise and heal our technologies. Healing is resistance.” Tabita Rezaire