Spaniards Named Her Magdalena, But Natives Called Her Yuma
2013 - Film & Video (Film & Video)
27:00 minutes
Carolina Caycedo
In this two-channel video installation, Spaniards Named Her Magdalena, But Natives Called Her Yuma , Carolina Caycedo gathered footage during numerous research trips to dam sites in the Harz Mountains, Saxony, Westphalia and the Black Forest in Germany interspersed with images of the Rio Magdalena region in Colombia. Extending beyond the documentary form, the work illuminates social power structures and control mechanisms, particularly in connection with the activities of multinational corporations: images of controlled bodies of water are spliced with footage of urban crowds, visualising overlaps in the ways these various bodies are managed. The film is overlaid with the narrator’s voice whispering in Spanish and English, speaking of the artist’s personal perspective, and her own experience with a river she has known since childhood when family lived by its edge.
Carolina Caycedo’s work triumphs environmental justice through demonstrations of resistance and solidarity. The artist uses drawing, photography, film, and performance at venues and vehicles for research and action. Caycedo’s work addresses and laments the corruption of power and the destruction of nature by corporate greed, justified by progress. With regard to pressing concerns of global climate change, causing destruction to communities via droughts and natural disasters, Carolina’s works address the implications and consequences of such carelessness towards the future of the earth and its inhabitants. The artist’s use of technology to mediate these concepts provides a harmonious relationship between content and form. Caycedo’s work offers utopian models to inhabit in a world in which individuals and communities are increasingly subject to commodification, exploitation, and discrimination.
Colors:
Other related works, blended automatically
» see more
© » KADIST
Carolina Caycedo
2014YUMA o la tierra de los amigos (YUMA, or the Land of Friends) by Carolina Caycedo is a large mural containing a series of satellite photographs mounted on acrylic...
Related works sharing similar palette
» see more
© » KADIST
Clarissa Tossin
2017Clarissa Tossin’s film Ch’u Mayaa responds to Frank Lloyd Wright’s Hollyhock House (constructed 1919–21) in Los Angeles, an example of Mayan Revival architecture...
© » THEARTNEWSPER
Van Gogh’s 'Starry Night over the Rhône' will return for the first time to the city where it was painted Art market Museums & heritage Exhibitions Books Podcasts Columns Technology Adventures with Van Gogh Search Search Adventures with Van Gogh blog Van Gogh’s 'Starry Night over the Rhône' will return for the first time to the city where it was painted But did Vincent really wear a hat fringed with candles when he was working? Martin Bailey 8 December 2023 Share Van Gogh’s Starry Night over the Rhone (September 1888) Credit: Musée d’Orsay, Paris Adventures with Van Gogh Adventures with Van Gogh is a weekly blog by Martin Bailey, our long-standing correspondent and expert on the artist...
© » ARTS EQUATOR
Cambodia Town Film Festival presents perspectives beyond ‘Crazy Rich Asians’ (via Long Beach Post) | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia Articles September 17, 2018 Kilong Ung was just a teenager when the Khmer Rouge overtook his hometown of Battambang in Cambodia...
© » KADIST
2pm – Dog Day Afternoon (1975) 5pm – The Dog (2013) Kicking off a monthly series of double and triple features that explore the relationship between cinema and contemporary video and performance art, Kadist presents two films centered around John Wojtowicz , and his infamous bank robbery attempt on August 22, 1972...
Other works by: » Carolina Caycedo
» see more
© » KADIST
Carolina Caycedo
2014YUMA o la tierra de los amigos (YUMA, or the Land of Friends) by Carolina Caycedo is a large mural containing a series of satellite photographs mounted on acrylic...
© » KADIST
Carolina Caycedo
2015Carolina Caycedo’s practice conveys her very personal passion and relationship to water, as a powerful necessity and spiritual reminder...
Related artist(s) to: Carolina Caycedo » Julieta Aranda, » Carla Zaccagnini, » Alejandro Cesarco, » Alexander Apóstol, » Carlos Motta, » Gilda Mantilla, » Juan Araujo, » María Inés Rodríguez, » Mateo López, » Nicolás Robbio
» see more
© » KADIST
Julieta Aranda
2016The video Swimming in rivers of Glue is composed of various images of nature, exploring the themes of exploration of space and its colonization...
© » KADIST
Carla Zaccagnini
2005This series of photographs, Sobre la igualdad y las diferencias: casas gemelas (On Equality and Differences: Twin Houses) , taken in Havana in 2005, belongs to a wider group of works that the artist has been developing over many years, generally titled Bifurcaciones y encrucijadas (Forking Paths and Crossroads) ...
© » KADIST
Carla Zaccagnini
2018De sino à sina (From Bell to Fate) is a six-channel sound installation by Carla Zaccagnini exploring the relationship between modern Brazil and its colonial past...
