Non Plus Ultra
A video essay (13’13”) that intertwines the story of aliens in Conil de la Frontera from a TV5 archive, the creation myth of the Strait of Gibraltar, and a bronze plaque found in the anti-nuclear bunker where the Atlantis-2 submarine cable lands, the first fiber optic cable laid directly between Europe and South America. Drawing lines between science fiction, technology, and colonialism, it closes with a flamenco song of ida y vuelta (coming and going) performed by a flamenco dancer on the cable’s manhole cover. The video essay emerges from research on Atlantis-2, the first submarine internet cable laid between Europe and South America, following the route traced by Magellan when he circumnavigated the Earth.
Original music by Rodrigo Pacheco.
Flamenco performance by Patricia Peces.
Installation view and stills from my exhibition Escuela de Telepatía Húmeda, curated by MSD (Daniela Gutiérrez-González & Sebastián Mira) in Espacio Odeón, Bogotá (2025).
