LĂ­neas de poder *** /// *** Powerlines

Two-channel video installation, electronics, magnetic stone, 2023

Installation shot Elisa Balmaceda LĂ­neas de poder Powerlines 2023 photo by Silke Briel 01

[test] Two channel video installation, handcrafted solar and geomagnetic antennae/device, coiled stone, copper wires, magnetometer and microelectronics, sound, solilunar geometry (silver plotter), magnetic stones, recycled copper wire and screens, mirror, artificial light, aluminum structure creating a portal and antenna

Lineas de poder is a video-installation that explores the correlation of cosmic forces such as the sun's energy or the Earth's magnetosphere with the human body and its temporal and material belonging to planetary cycles.

Based on solar and geomagnetic data and sensors, popular and parascientific knowledge, and Andean phenomenology, the project seeks to bring occult, forgotten and invisibilized past & future technologies of alignment, interconnection, and cosmic communication together with current dominant out-of-sync production of time and energy based on linear narratives and economies.

Elisa Balmaceda is part of the two-month residency programme in collaboration with Chile. LĂ­neas de poder /// Powerlines was developed during the residency.