Ana Carolina Rodrigues presents A Sonorous Expedition (partII), with invited guest Christopher Taylor.

A Sonorous Expedition is a sound and visual, ecological and social research journey in Panama as a transformation to the environment of the Maxilla Space in London. 

In Panama, Ana Carolina was based in the indigenous community of Guna Yala, which encompasses rainforest and covers much of Panama’s eastern Caribbean coast; the aim was to learn from the indigenous community ecological and sustainable ways of living. 

The show is presented under the A40, in North Kensington, one of the most polluted places in the UK and asks how we can recover our ancestral connection to the space around us and believe in progression without damaging our ecosystem. 

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In the exhibition space, the tropical and native plants are placed on former concrete pavements exhibiting the local soil that may or may not be contaminated by toxic substances. 

Sampled sounds from the Panamanian rainforest, ocean and rain play from one end of the space to the

other before reversing, reinforcing the experience of a distant nature. While the natural sounds along with the ambient lighting generate an atmospheric space they also evolve to violent storms foreshadowed by intense sirens evoking that our activity has affected the earth´s biogeochemical cycles.

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For the exhibition, Carolina collaborated with the artist Christopher Taylor for one of the radio broadcasts and a site specific-installation at Maxilla Space.

The exhibition is accompanied by three radio broadcasts on Resonance Extra on Wednesday 10th, Monday 15th and Wednesday 17th of October at 11 am.

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Supported by The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, and ACAVA.

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