Landscape that Speaks Without Words

This Spanish-language podcast, hosted by curator and researcher Carolina Jiménez, accompanies the premiere of the documentary Aquel verano del 22 [The Summer of ‘22] by artist and filmmaker Lorenzo Sandoval for TBA21. Carolina and Lorenzo have been in conversation over the years, often pursuing collaborative research together, as with their current project Rhythmepistemologies, which they are working on under the name Office for the Edition of Patterns and Poetics of Repetition. OEPPR is an organization for the analysis, production, and redistribution of the intersections between infrastructures and cosmovisions. In this podcast they explore the continuities between body and landscape, addressing the implications of different semiotic, listening, and reading devices within and beyond human language. In doing so they consider provisional in(ter)ferences in the establishment of a new legal paradigm of the rights of nature for Mar Menor in Murcia. They review the extractivist logic that has been apparent in the region for decades, fueled by the interconnection of mining, agroindustry, and urbanism that flourished during Franco’s era of developmentalism. Considering how such conditions might be reassembled, they look/listen to flamenco from La Unión as both a symptom of pain and trauma and practice of inscribing a corpus of vernacular knowledge of the workers and the landscape otherwise. Contributors: Teresa Vicente, Professor of Philosophy of Law and director of the Chair of Human Rights and Rights of Nature at the University of Murcia. Promoter of the ILP of the Mar Menor. Paco Paredes, flamencologist, writer, advisor to the Festival del Cante de las Minas de La Unión. Sound clips: Rosendo García Fernández, Minera and Taranta. Recording of the Festival del Cante de las Minas de La Unión, 2022. Baldomero Cortés Heredia, Minera and Taranta. Recording of the Festival del Cante de las Minas de La Unión, 2022. Acknowledgements: dublab BCN