Flujo (2022)
ARTWORKS I / LABOR & TECHNODIVERSITY
Amor Muñoz questions the monotechnological culture that has led to the depletion of natural resources and the degradation of life. It focuses on the“ technology-crafts ”relationship, creating connections between ancestral knowledge, innovation, tradition, and high and low technologies. Part of his work reflects how technology is affecting production systems and how manual labor and handicrafts are changing in a contemporary global economy.
Flujo is a sound sculpture hand-woven by artisans from Ecuador, which combines local and traditional techniques and materials with new technologies.
The piece is a floating structure in the shape of an inverted canoe, which evokes the ancestral technologies that have resisted the passage of time,equipped with a photovoltaic system for the harvesting of energy and the distribution of the electrical flow to different sound devices. These devices emit sounds of the water that sound like white noise, thus posing a relationship between the organic and the non-organic, and making an analogy of the electrical system with water, flow, river, flow and current.
The artist involves the concept of techno-diversity to make visible how other traditional knowledge can appropriate contemporary technology from other perspectives with a collective sense of social and environmental well-being. Thinking the local to reflect on the future of technology and create conditions to invent a sustainable future, a future made by hand.