ZONA DEL SILENCIO SERIAL
ZONA DEL SILENCIO SERIES

ZONA DEL SILENCIO SERIES

The works we propose constitute a series of resonant geographic and historical metaphors. These interventions acknowledge the mythic nature of this story whilst addressing the political and social context of its telling.

ZONA DEL SILENCIO SERIAL

Our serial works attempt to create a lacuna within the relentless flow of historical narratives generated around this anniversary. This inconvenient temporal slippage cannot be acknowledged to any significant extent within the “noise” of the Quincentenary). By our present Gregorian calendar, the first European landfall in the Americas takes place on October 23, 1492. The October 12th landfall accords with the Julian calendar used in Columbus’ day. (Not the least of these being that our acknowledgement of Columbus Day as October 12th itself highlights a dis-location in the social construction of history. This proposal is premised upon a series of Temporal, Spatial and Cultural trans-locations/dis-locations. It is in this Zone of Silence that we propose to commemorate the Quincentenary. Such electromagnetic anomalies are thought to be linked to the unusually high percentage of meteorite debris that litters the surface of the Zone.

frequencies can neither be received nor sent and clocks and vehicles cease to function. In this region, between 104 and 107 degrees longitude and astride the 27th parallel is found La Zona del Silencio: a region where radio waves in the Hertz AM. The approach to La Zona del Silencio – Mapimi desert. Unique, prehistoric life forms survive in these harsh conditions: a species of triangle shaped marine shells live under the sand there is a burrowing tailless tortoise, the Bolson, or Yellow Margin, a direct descendant of the great marine turtles that once swam the Cretaceous seas. The scenery is lonely and unreal, an apparently lifeless desert supporting only cacti and hardy weeds. In the Cretaceous Age it was the Sea of Tetlis. In northern Mexico, at the meeting point of the provinces of Chihuahua, Coahuila and Durango is a region known as the Mapimi Desert.

We propose to witness the 500th anniversary of Cristobal Colon’s first sighting of the Americas with a series of three cultural actions /interventions. Radio Broadcast + Audiotape publication.ĭetail – Biennale of Sydney installation 1992.Ī Proposal For A Cultural Action – “Columbus Day” 1992. ABC Radio (x2 broadcasts, “La Zona” and “La Campana”) February 1993.ģ. Mapimi Desert and Insurgentes Metro, Mexico City, October 12th 1992.ģ. La Zona Del Silencio, co-produced with Tony McGregor of ABC Radio, Sydney.ġ.

Zona del silencio