Itinerante Silente

Itinerante Silente is a site-specific piece about slow violence, time, permanence and nature embodiment. The piece is inspired by Jussi Parikka’s essay “A Slow, Contemporary Violence: Damaged Environments of Technological Culture” where he talks about the concept of slow violence, and how human politics have managed to change the course of time in nature. We have changed every Umwelt from its very micro chemical composition. Every time a fire starts, every time it rains, every time a wave completes its journey a now intrinsic trace of mankind is there. 

The piece shows in its editing and aesthetics a change in nature’s own timing by the deformation and alteration of both sound and image through media techniques. Shot in Bengtskär lighthouse, Finland, a place that went through a battle in 1941 and that still has traces of war both in its architecture and surrounding nature, the piece captivates the essential violence of this place formed by man and nature. We are both in the end so violent and forgiving, beautiful and catastrophic, both on macro and micro scales; slowly we took more than needed and spoiled her health, essence, space and time. Her violence is no longer her own, but a violence that has lost its rhythm.