Resonant Histories, Living Archives and Celebratory Resistance
Buen-TEK artist presentations
How can artistic research reactivate memory, reshape collective identities, and reveal hidden ecologies within the environments we inhabit? In this session, three presentations explore the relationships between memory, territory, sound, and social practice. Through artist talks, the participants share the ideas, processes, and materials behind their work. Together, the presentations offer insight into how artistic practices can uncover overlooked connections between history, landscape, and forms of life that remain outside dominant technological narratives.
Javier Blanco & Team
Javier Blanco and collaborators present OBLIVION — Reactivating Memories that Resonate in the Present. In this presentation they reflect on a project that investigates how suppressed or forgotten histories continue to shape contemporary realities. Drawing on episodes such as the Cordobazo uprising, the last military dictatorship, and more recent social struggles in Argentina, the project explores how collective memory persists across generations. Through artistic research, archival material, and collaborative processes, OBLIVION considers how traces of the past remain active in the present and how artistic practice can reactivate them.
Tin Ayala (member of El Alto Aesthetics)
Tin Ayala presents a practice situated between design research, collective action, and Andean cultural production. As co-founder of El Alto Aesthetics, Ayala works within a transdisciplinary collective that approaches Indigenous knowledge as a living, urban practice shaped through migration, popular economies, and collective forms of organization in El Alto, Bolivia. Drawing on concepts such as abigarramiento and ayni, their work develops tools for celebration—ranging from graphic design to sound systems—that transform colonial histories into acts of cultural negotiation. In this talk, Ayala reflects both on their individual practice and on the collective methodologies of El Alto Aesthetics, where knowledge is produced through doing: through festivity, manual labor, and shared infrastructures such as the Qullatron sound system. Together, these approaches frame celebration as a form of social technology and a site for rearticulating identity, territory, and autonomy.
Kinkínella
Kinkínella presents Microbimatica, an installation conceived as an analog–digital cabinet of curiosities that archives the stages of a research residency in the Magallanes region at the southern tip of the American continent. Through images, documentation, and reflections, the artist will introduce how the project brings together ecological observation, artistic experimentation, and microbial perspectives on territory.
What else is on Saturday?
Check the timetable to visit more programmes with your Festival Pass (5-days) or Day Pass (1-day). With the passes you can also visit the festival exhibition Techno-Ancestrality at the IMPAKT [Centre for Media Culture] and BAK Basecamp.
Saturday day pass 5-day festival pass
For more information on the festival tickets please see here