Lab
Orejas Multiespecie

Winner Project of the 2022 Plataforma Bogotá Grant in Art, Science, and Technology.
Project in collective with Sebastián Sandoval Quimbayo


In the speculative fable The Camille Stories: Children of Compost, Donna Haraway proposes a future in which multispecies relationships—between humans and nonhumans—are vital to re-inhabiting the ruins of a world that has been destroyed.

But what do interspecies bonds sound like? How do animals, machines, humans, and plants coexist within the soundscape? And how can we, through artistic languages such as sound creation, imagine possible becomings?

In the Multispecies Ears Laboratory, children explore their surroundings and the bonds that exist between species through listening—an approach that also enables them to imagine and create narratives and possible uchronias (alternate histories) of our Earth, as Haraway suggests in her tale.

Listening and collective creation will be fundamental tools for this lab, as they will allow children aged 7 to 12 to deepen their relationship with their environment: not only understanding where the sounds they identify come from, but also distinguishing species and how they coexist within the soundscape.