Infrastructures of Care

Buen-TEK artist presentations

11 April 2026

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How can we look and listen differently to the environments we inhabit—whether atmospheric, urban, or coastal? In this session, four artists from across South America present works that approach climate, infrastructure, and ecology not as abstract systems, but as relationships we experience in everyday life and are directly involved in. Through sound, storms, shade, and saltwater ecologies, their projects explore how environments shape collective life and how artistic research can reveal hidden connections between bodies, territories, and ecological change.

Rather than proposing technological fixes, these projects rethink technology itself: as a situated practice, a carrier of ancestral knowledge, and a relational interface between human and more-than-human worlds. Looking, listening, observing, and collaborating with local communities become ways of perceiving ecological imbalance and imagining different forms of coexistence. Together, these presentations show how artistic practices can foster care, ecological awareness, and collective responsibility.

Mari Nagem
Mari Nagem presents Direito à Sombra, in which shade—provided by trees and urban spaces—is reconsidered as an ancestral technology of care and as a right unevenly distributed across cities.

Anthony Tandazo
In Sound Dialogues, Anthony Tandazo uses video and algorithmically generated sound to make hidden infrastructures, inequalities, and environmental pressures in urban environments audible.

Lorena Salas
Lorena Salas presents Turminta, a project that explores storms through field recordings and solar-activated lithophanies, approaching weather as a relational atmospheric intelligence.

Licida Carolina Negro Vidal
Uma Colher de Sal e Uma de Açúcar (A Spoon of Salt and a Spoon of Sugar) investigates how macroalgae and adsorbent materials in saltwater ecosystems can capture pollutants while creating new habitats.

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Image: A spoonful of salt and a spoonful of sugar by Licida Vidal

Licida Vidal Mari Nagem Lorena Salas Anthony Tandazo

Licida Vidal

― Artist

Licida Vidal is a visual artist living and working in Ubatuba, São Paulo, Brazil, graduated in Social Sciences at the University of São Paulo (USP). Through performance, photography, video, and installations, her work explores questions of gender and nature within the context of climate emergencies. Her practice weaves together subaltern knowledge, intimate experiences, and academic research in a search for strategies of habitability and the restoration of autonomy to bodies and territories.

Mari Nagem

― Artist

Mari Nagem is a Brazilian-born interdisciplinary artist exploring digital culture’s relationship with nature. Navigating different media, using luminous colors and sharpened edges, Nagem creates works that enlighten our perception of critical aspects of the information age, such as the artificiality of landscapes and the climate crisis. Her work has been exhibited in a solo exhibition at Galeria Lume (São Paulo), at institutions such as SESC, MIS-SP, Oi Futuro, the Sea Foundation (Netherlands), as well as in Southern American biennials like Bienal Sur (Argentina) and the Digital Art Biennial (São Paulo), and festivals including Die Digitale Düsseldorf, FILE and the Athens Art Festival. Holds an MFA from HEAD-Genève, and lives between New York and Brazil.

Lorena Salas

― Artist

Lorena Salas is a visual anthropologist, sociologist, filmmaker, and cultural organizer. For over a decade, she has worked closely with Amazonian, rural, and migrant communities, developing self-representation and artistic co-creation processes as strategies of resistance to systemic violence, displacement, and extractivism. Salas has created fiction films, documentaries, animation works, and sound art in territories such as Ecuador, Peru, Mexico, Chile, Bolivia, Brazil, and Colombia. Her creative and research interests explore the relationships between visuality, aurality, sensitive ecologies, and Indigenous cosmologies.

Anthony Tandazo

― Artist

Anthony Tandazo, new media artist and composer, born in the province of Loja, Ecuador. He began his studies in 2021 at the University of the Arts in Guayaquil with main focus on the itinerary of Musical Creation, where he has developed projects related to softwares such as Ableton and Max msp. In 2024, he participated in the “Art and Technology Minga”, Guayaquil. Currently, Tandazo’s interdisciplinary practice focuses on researching diverse Andean rhythms from Ecuador, and implementing audiovisual software to mix traditional rhythms with contemporary sounds.

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