Event in english

moderation: Wiktoria Szczupacka

Conceived as a sensorial journey through space and time, ESCORIAS invites into an environment charged with material and geopolitical histories. The installation explores the residual landscapes of extractivism in Chile and Poland, two countries profoundly shaped by mining economies and their discarded by-products.

Slag heaps, tailings, and mining ruins are not only environmental scars but also carriers of memory. Based on field research conducted across slag deposits in Chile and archival materials from coal mines in Silesia, the artists reflect on the transformation of territory, labor, and ideology. At the same time, the project historically examines the parallels between geographies and productive models that framed the ways of life of extractivism. ESCORIAS explores discarded materialities and seeks, through their metamorphosis, to create dialogues between the useful and the discarded. The installation is both poetic and political. It connects different geographies through shared residues of exploitation, while opening a space to imagine other forms of solidarity.

ESCORIAS is grounded in the experimental practice that Colectivo Punto Espora carries out in the camp site of Ciudad Abierta, a habitable space and laboratory created in the 1970s on the coast of Valparaíso, Chile; and in the collaborative ethos of Punto Espora, which brings together architecture, performance, and visual art to rethink how environments are inhabited and remembered.