Some nocturnal butterflies emit ultrasonic sounds that confound bats’ hearing when they try to detect them through the echo of their screeches. Crypsis, the act of disappearing or going unseen in the world, can also be sonorous. Based on the ideas central to Daniel Steegmann Mangrané’s work, the Institute for Postnatural Studies proposes a series of experimental activations (performances, listening sessions, research and music) that amplify the perceptive layers of the exhibition through sound. Over two days, based on animal strategies of camouflage and echolocation, Cripsis will allow visitors to navigate the museum through sounds, reverberations and echoes that generate a new relationship between the works, the bodies and the surrounding environment.
The artists invited to this programme – Fabiana Vinagre, Belén Rodríguez, Vica Pacheco and Julián Galay – expand the perceptive and conceptual layers of the exhibition Daniel Steegmann Mangrané. A Leaf Shapes the Eye, delving into the framework of sound ecology proposed by the Institute for Postnatural Studies.
