Thereza Alves, Lucrecia Dalt: You Will Go Away One Day But I Will Not
A new commissioned work by Maria Thereza Alves and Lucrecia Dalt will be presented at the Botanic Garden Berlin. The spatial sound installation You Will Go Away One Day But I Will Not considers the Western practice of using Western scientific nomenclature to name plants worldwide. The audience is invited to walk through the tropical greenhouse wearing headphones that track each user’s movements to generate individualised binaural sonic experiences. Through this immersive installation in the tropical greenhouse, Alves and Dalt attempt to open a space for the multifarious voices of the forest—organic and inorganic, human and non-human, speculative and lived—while also pointing to their silencing and erasure by European colonists. Alves has worked with the Guarani people of the Jaguapiru Reservation in Dourados in Mato Grosso do Sul in Brazil since 1980.
Dalt’s sonics are inspired by the turbulent, unpredictable, multiplicitous nature of the forest. Using rhythmically sequenced patterns from its many voices, Dalt composes a constantly-shifting sound piece. Through wandering the installation, attendees encounter sounds, voices, pulses, and testimonies, ranging from the actual—such as music composed by the Guarani community—to the imagined and unlocatable.