Mujeres Roca
Audiovisual piece
Audiovisual piece created in collaboration with visual artist Matilde Piccoli, within the frame of the artistic residency La Wayaka Current (Chile).
La Wayaka Current Desert 23º is an artistic residency located in the heart of the Atacama desert. To create this piece, Alicia took the landscape as an instrument, recording different types of rocks, sand and wind, and using them as the main material for the composition. These field recordings, together with the voice, processed and transformed, create a suggestive, magical soundtrack to Matilde’s real-time drawing.
Mujeres Roca (Women Rock) brings to life the hidden voices and the ancestral memory of the landscape. When we hold a stone in our hands we hold millions of years of history. The landscape is alive, the desert speaks, and it awakes in the shape of women; the silent witnesses.
They gather, slowly, very slowly, everything the earth touches. They restore what’s lost and give back what is forgotten. They rise, tonight, to make the moon drift, and to begin, again, the cycle.
Noche que susurra, cuerpos de la sal. Sueño de la arena,
ríos sin el mar.
Cantan las ausencias, hilan el telar. Llevan la memoria
bajo el caminar.
Whispering night, bodies of salt. Sand's dreaming,
rivers without the sea.
They sing the absences, they weave the loom. They carry the memory right under her walk.
