Liquid Democracy
A work of speculative fiction that examines the relationship between digital technologies and political systems in the context of Colombia. The script of the video is a combination of commercial ads on liquid democracy — a semi-digital political configuration —, Google’s “My Line” service that provided free internet access through landlines, the Colombian e-census, and cloud-bursting technologies of geo-engineering. Read from a TV studio, the protagonist John dialogues with his mother at the open ocean, the planet Mars, the Cauca river, and the Páramo highlands in Colombia. The project began as a four-channel video installation with a podium, chroma-blue backdrop, and a chroma-green flag and onesie, activated through the performative reading of the artwork’s script every day during its exhibition. The performance was recorded and edited into a single-channel video (14min).
Performative script reading during the inauguration at the exhibition Debes seguir, no puedo seguir, seguiré curated by Alejandra Sarria in Espacio Odeón (2019)
Recording of the performance for the single-channel video and stills of the locations sources from Google Maps
