DE ALLÁ PA ACÁ

Some microbes that live in lithium can stay alive once extracted, and might still be alive powering our devices right now. De Allá Pa Acá (translated from colloquial Chilean: From there to here) follows a microbe’s journey from the Atacama Desert in the north of Chile to the lithium battery powering your laptop. The microbe serves as a vehicle to tell the multiplicity of stories that lie in the sand; From the cosmological creation of lithium to the necropolitics during Pinochet’s dictatorship.

Through the lens of animism the video questions: What else does this microbe carry? What kind of stories does it transmit? Who has it encountered in its way? These questions are answered through the course of four phases: the Creation, the Excavation, the Brine, and the Current.

About Andrea Galano Toro

Andrea Galano Toro (she/her) is a Graphic Designer and Artist with a focus on research and storytelling. Born in Spain and raised in Chile. She is interested in how site-specific work can emerge from a feeling of displacement. Following this, she began to tell stories through the exploration of traces, and their materiality. These stories are about objects, monuments, land, mountains, sand, and water. Simultaneosly she is busy writing spells with her research collaborator Laila Saber Rodriguez in their collective Cruda

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