BioArchivo (BioFile)
BioArchivo is a mobile art and sound installation that mixed nature, archive and oral history. It consisted in a real handmade “flower tree” which incorporated two headphone. The flower tree was specially made by the florists of Santiago’s Public Flower Market. Through the headphones, everyday pedestrian could hear a sound score made of stories from the historic neighbourhood of La Chimba (“the other side” in Quechua) in Santiago. The sound score also included fragments of José Donoso’s novel El Obsceno Pájaro, old recordings and music specially composed by Chilean recognised guitar player Fernando Madariaga. The installation took place in October 2010 in the borough of Recoleta (modern name for La Chimba) and later at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Santiago de Chile as part of the exhibition SCL2120.