Maybe you are the Mirror. Video sample: 01min50sec. Original duration: 3min15sec. 1080p HD 29,97p. Stereo, 2019. A Flickering Tongue is a video projection and text installation. It sets a dialogue -in the form of a script- of an observer and an Andean Condor that revolves around the idea of the distance and estrangement between human and nonhuman beings. The piece presents a scenario where the desire for communication but also its failure becomes evident.
Fragment of A Flickering Tongue:
IV
The Andean Cóndor rests on the ground. She starts playing with some twigs lying by her side. Then, she moves to a grassy area and lays next to a fallen dead tree trunk. She starts scraping the bark with her beak.
ANDEAN CÓNDOR:
(…)
Again, the observer starts to make different sounds with its mouth and tongue.
OBSERVER:
“Cloc, cloc, cloc, cloc”.
ANDEAN CÓNDOR:
(…)
OBSERVER:
“Co, co, co, co. Crack, Crack, Crack”.
ANDEAN CÓNDOR:
(…)
OBSERVER:
“Tac, tac, tac, tac. Click, click, click”.
ANDEAN CÓNDOR:
(…)
The warm sound of crackling bark.
