In collaboration
with Rodrigo Ríos Zunino
Bosquemuseo (cerro calán)
árbol-antena is an intervention at bosquemuseo – located on top of the Calan hill, where an old astronomical observatory coexists with degradated native and introduced flora–. It seeks to explore the interconnection and energetic communication among vegetal species, minerals, energy fields and antennas; being all them inhabitants of this place.
Built from the trunk of an Agave flower found on site, which was replanted and intervened with a copper coil, the piece becomes an artifact that ca be activated as a receiver of radio signals and electromagnetic waves captured on site, being activated and feed by the sun and its energy.
The tree-antenna also plays the role of a "gnomon" or solar marker, according to solar and andean coordinates of calendrical-ritual importance, thus projecting the shadow on the ground according to alignments traced on it.
