Laura Colmenares Guerra is a visual artist interested in the creation of environments that activate the relationship of the participants with their own body, generating mediation between the human body and the way it is perceived. Her work relates to the politics of the body, the matter of body perception and the engagement of the spectator with the art piece.
This installation is inspired by Pollen, a dreamlike, cyberpunk novel by Jeff Noon. It’s also inspired by the work of geographers F. Ramírez and F. Osorio. Their study, centred in a specific region of Colombia, ‘ Magdalena Medio ’, shows how armed conflict and forced occupation influences the (re)construction of territories. The act of walking in Unstable Territories implies the desire to pierce and irrigate the video landscape. A generative biological circulation system has been designed, taking into account human blood distribution network parameters. Unstable Territories creates a dialog between these axes, blurring the border between the physical body and the geophysical territory.
This interactive installation explores involuntary bodily processes brought into consciousness through the experience of the piece. By amplifying and intensifying the unconscious body process of breathing, it aims to generate a conscious movement towards the question of body perception. The physical set-up consists of a platform containing a ‘pool ’ filled with white liquid paint that is used as a video projection screen. On top of the platform there are 4 rocks used as seats. Four breathing masks equipped with microphones and connected to air pressure sensors monitor the breathing of the participants. Each participant is assigned with jellyfishes that follow the breather’s pace, receiving feedback from their own breathing process, as well as from the people they are connected too.