Constanza Piña

Constanza Piña

DESCRIPTION

Constanza Piña offers R&D media and installation documentation from her ongoing Khipu Prehispanic Electrotextile Computer project, which is installed in Mexico City and livestreamed into [MS]:RU, at once collapsing and expanding the way we understand the immediacy or locality of exhibition “space.” Pages from an expanded edition of project text, documentation, and research materials scroll as a durational component in the gallery space. KHIPU’s handspun copper and alpaca fibers use an inca coding system to encode information about the classification of the main stars of Bootes, a moon phase calendar, a total solar eclipse, two earthquakes, and the sun and moon’s position in relation to the artists’ births.

ARTIST BIO

Constanza Piña is a visual artist, dancer and researcher, focused on electronic experimentation, open-source technologies and social practices. Her work reflects on the role of machines in our culture and on human-technological units, questioning education, capitalism and techno-centrist patriarchy with open-knowledge, autonomy and the enhancement of technical manual work. Find her projects at http://corazonderobota.wordpress.com Piña’s ongoing work on the Khipu in collaboration with Melissa Aguilar, Ana Cervantes, Ana Ortiz, Daniela Sofía Main Reye, and originally with Super Collider / Jaime Lobato and Alexandre Castonguay can be found here: https://proyectokhipu.wordpress.com/

Exhibition Photography © EFA Project Space/Yann Chashanovski