The Song of the Grandmothers
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| Admission: Free Admission |
| Venue: Ground Floor, Hall 2 |
| Belongs to: Opening Mine. Yours. Ours!? |
Water and stone tell stories that reach back millions of years. For many communities, rocks are their grandmothers – beings that preserve the voices of time in their silence. For years, sound artist Leonel Vásquez has been listening to these voices, making their hidden vibrations audible.
In The Song of the Grandmothers, the sounds of water and stone come together. Through rotation and amplification, the vibrations of rocks become audible, merging with instruments that translate the movements and currents of water into sound. The result is a multilayered soundscape that invites us to experience the connections between water, earth, and time through our senses.
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Leonel Vásquez (Bogotá, 1981) is a Colombian sound artist. He creates listening devices, spaces, and experiences as political, aesthetic, somatic, and regenerative acts. His work explores more-than-human sonic agencies, including water, trees, rocks, whales, and milk. His interests include recognizing nature as a victim of Colombia’s armed conflict and promoting the symbolic restoration of rivers and forests. He fosters relational listening practices and affective communities to create acoustic agreements. His research focuses on cosmo-resonances, singing in interspecies care, and acoustic-poetic restoration. He leads the cultural biocentre Estación de Escucha de Alta Montaña in the Sumapaz páramo, a place dedicated to dialoguing with living beings and paying tribute to water.