This project was produced during the No Lugar Residency Program and Sin Teatro in Quito, Ecuador, Summer, 2024.

The project concluded with an activation using sound objects created during the residency in collaboration with Taller La Bolla.

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These performance was made possible through the use of Desencanto, a process that leads us see the object for its materiality rather than what it was before, breaking the chains and marks of time. My proposal for No Lugar is titled "Tuneado" (Tuned), which disrupts the historical stability of the objects, transforming them into something else. Desencanto helps us see beyond knowledge, allowing us to turn things around until waste reaches a new utility. Through Desencanto, design procedures continue. This concept is essential for creating deeper objects that treat everyday ingenuity as an autonomous tool, breaking with the permanence of the present. Examples include using a fruit box as a pedestal for displaying goods or simply using the box as a seat, without worrying about what it was before.

Using the process of Desencanto to "tune" the material, I took granadillas as a base to create new memories from this form. Through various transformative processes, the granadilla took on different formats, starting with the input of 10 individuals (children, street vendors, and shop owners) who ate the granadilla. Each step is vital in expanding the functions of this object. Each change serves a specific purpose. The seeds were used to create rattles, which now carry with them the individuals who consumed the granadilla. The fruit’s shells were used as sound amplifiers. By utilizing every part of the fruit, the object is "tuned" to produce multiple functions.

The collaboration with Taller La Bola allows for the creation of a space that merges traditional forms and processes with new ones. It is important to think of production methods not as spaces of difference, but as spaces of collaboration and learning. During the activation of the objects, new sounds emerged and conversations were stablished. These devices, formed during the activation with Taller La Bola, will generate new sound units, showing how something as simple as a granadilla can be transformed into new possibilities.

Time takes hold of the signs we construct, returning the material to its original state.