’EL CAMBIO DE TURNO’ IN COLLABORATION WITH EL RESGUARDO INDIGENA DE LAS MERCEDES____________________VIDEO____________________6’09 MINS____________________THE VIDEO IS PART OF THE COLLECTION OF THE MUSEUM OF THE BANK OF THE REPUBLIC, BOGOTA____________________2020____________________
THE VIDEO PRESENTS, IN THE VOICE OF “EL DUENDE” A TRADITIONAL DOCTOR FROM THE NASA COMMUNITY IN THE DEPARTMENT OF CAUCA, IN COLOMBIA, A FORM OF INHABITING THE LAND THAT PRECEDES THE DISTANT AND DISSOCIATED NARRATIVE IMPLICIT IN WESTERN DIALECTICS. THE SET OF RELATIONS INHABITED BY THE TRADITIONAL HEALER IS TRAVERSED BY A CONSTANT CONVERSATION WITH LAGOONS AND PLANTS AS THE MATRIX OF RESISTANCE. THE VITALITY OF THE POSTURE ASSUMED FROM HIS POSITION OPENS THE NECESSITY FOR RETHINKING A SPACE OF RELATION LINKED TO THE COCA PLANT, BRINGING TO THE FORE A THRESHOLD PRIOR TO THAT OF NEOLIBERALISM AS NARRATIVE. THE PLACE OF THE ARTIST IS NOT THAT OF ETHNOGRAPHY OR THE DISCIPLINARY CONSTRUCTION UPON WHICH TO FRAME THE COMMODITY OF KNOWLEDGE, BUT INSTEAD FOR THE RECOVERY OF THE LAND IN OURSELVES.