Dates
March, April 2023

Musician, field recordist, artist, filmmaker — the interdisciplinary work of Pablo Diserens is based on the attention, mainly through sound, to signs and presences of nature imperceptible to an anthropocentric society, and often vulnerable. By listening to these non-human life forms, the artist proposes new ways of relating to the world in which sound seeks to erase the differences between species.

Inviting Pablo Diserens as artist-in-residence at Espacio Vilaseco, responded to an intuition about the creative possibilities that the environment of Chantada and the Ribeira Sacra could offer to an artistic practice of this kind. Thus, over a period of two months, Diserens collected sonic and visual fragments of the discreet, at times inaudible, local non-human life, which they then manipulated and fused with the anthropogenic sounds of the region’s dams. As a result, a landscape of natural and technological realities materialized, celebrating the interdependence of all living beings while hinting at the impact of human endeavors.

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Pablo Diserens

Pablo Diserens (elle - 1994) is a field recorder, musician and artist dedicated to non-human realities, attentive listening and possible forms of coexistence between species. Through a multidisciplinary and ecologically engaged creative practice, they investigate diverse biomes and acoustic events with sonic and visual recording techniques. Their work blends sound, music, images and text to emphasise gestures of attentive listening and interconnectivity. Here, sonic ecology and photographic and electroacoustic forms foreground the biological and geological characteristics of the environments explored. By immersing listeners in environmental propositions and (su)realities, their publications, live performances and installations have the capacity to inspire people to shift their perspective and magnitude as they experience otherness and alternative ways of being, ultimately making listening a political act. In solidarity with a wounded planet, Diserens' artistic practice invites us to adapt to the present moment, in an attempt to rethink strategies of care and our relationship to the world and its biotic communities. Pablo Diserens live in Berlin and is co-founder/comisarie of forms of minutae, a publishing platform for listening tuning, electroacoustic music, sonic ecology and visual art.
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