Meet the Authors | ‘Language & Landscape’ with Len Murusalu & Alessandra Baltodano.

In this episode we speak with Len Murusalu, author of the short film ‘After Betelgeuse’ and Alessandra Baltodano, author of the multimedia ‘(silence)’. Both stories are part of Volume 9 ‘Language’ of Wimblu Magazine. On one hand Len explores language as a being with its own agency that emerges from the landscape and flows through the bodies of the people that inhabit it. On the other hand, Alessandra’s story recognizes a need to quiet the discursive mind in order to listen to the world, and to connect with the landscapes we inhabit.

Listen to both authors speak about their creative processes of each story and the way their exploration of language has opened up different ways to relate to the landscape.

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En esta conversación partimos de las historias ‘Desierto’ por Francisco Provedo y Monumentos por Pablo Franceschi. Por un lado, Desierto nos presenta la idea del lenguaje como una herramienta de colonización, que invisibiliza a ciertos seres vivos y las múltiples y diversas relaciones que existen en un territorio para finalmente convertir al paisaje en un lugar explotable y adquirir poder sobre el mismo. Por otro lado, en Monumentos el lenguaje es explorado como una manera de crear sentido desde un lugar más íntimo, pero apunta a esa misma cualidad del lenguaje: la de incidir en el mundo, no solamente en el mundo material, sino también espiritual.

Escuchá esta conversación en donde los autores profundizan en cómo estas dos exploraciones y perspectivas sobre el lenguaje convergen en distintos lugares en sus procesos creativos

Mira Desierto por Francisco Provedo

Explorá ‘Monumentos’ por Pablo Franceschi

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The stories we discussed in this ‘Meet the Authors’ are part of a chapter of Volume 9: Language, in which we explore and give space to stories that motivate us to imagine other languages, and other forms of non-human languages that allow us to somehow put ourselves in the skin of the other. This non-human skin, in Transliteration by US artist Nethery Wylie, is placed in the skin of trees and plants; and on the other hand, in Oseni by Australian artist Lawrence English, it is placed in the skin of the Pacific Ocean.

Listen to both authors speak about their creative processes of each story and the way contemplation and listening practices play a role in their craft.

Read Transliteration by Nethery Wylie.

Listen to Oseni by Lawrence English.

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