Name: Artes Mundi Matinee - Beatriz Santiago Muñoz
Location: G39

Artes Mundi Matinee - Beatriz Santiago Muñoz

Beatriz Santiago Muñoz
La Cueva Negra, 2012. 20’00” &
La cabeza mató a todos, 2014. Dur: 07’30”

La Cueva Negra, 2012. Dur: 20’00’’ La Cueva Negra explores the Paso del Indio site in Puerto Rico as a layered repository of symbolic and material histories, which visibly holds many conflicting histories, embodied in the landscape and built environment. Twenty years ago, during the construction of a multi-lane highway, a complex (possibly Archaic, definitely Pre-Taíno and Taíno) indigenous burial site was discovered and many objects and remains recovered, but the site was paved over for the construction of the expressway. During the original excavation (1992-1995) laborers from the surrounding villages were hired as manual labour. The film starts from the site&#x27;s material history, the recollections of the workers and archaeologists involved, what we know, and what we think we know about a landscape and how these layers of material and belief interact to create a new contemporary cosmogony, one built on the trash, the graffiti, the expressway, the river, the village, the karst bedrock and the traces of previous inhabitants&#x27; worldview.  La cabeza mató a todos, 2014. Dur:7’30’’ La cabeza mató a todos or “The Head that Killed Everyone”, is a short film that mixes indigenous mythologies with present-day characters, geographies and culture in Puerto Rico. The title refers to how a shooting star was (in local mythology) interpreted as a head without a body, crossing the sky, signalling the arrival of chaos and destruction. The actor in the video, Michelle Nonó, is in touch with native plants—she is a medicinal botanist but also a cultural activist — who hosts cultural events in her house, in a primarily Afro-Caribbean and post-industrial area called Carolina. Instructions to destroy the war apparatus with a spell. The form of this spell is precise. With Mapenzi Chibale Nonó  [The cat explains to Michelle how to make a spell. It is heard in the voice of Michelle (through the cat):  a spell, or a curse requires an effort analogous to the magic of the spell  if the magic is the total and absolute destruction of the war machine  if what you want is to detach the aerostat moorings  that snap in half like a walnut  spell requires a substantial amount of energy to be consumed]  //////////La Cueva Negra, 2012. Hyd: 20’00’’ Mae La Cueva Negra yn brosiect delwedd symudol a chyfres o luniau sy&#x27;n archwilio safle&#x27;r Paso del Indio fel ystorfa haenog o hanes symbolaidd a materol. Mae&#x27;r safle&#x27;n adnabyddus yn y gymuned archaeolegol. Ugain mlynedd yn ôl, wrth i waith adeiladu priffordd aml-lôn fynd rhagddo, darganfuwyd safle claddu brodorol cymhleth (Hynafol o bosibl, ond Cyn-Taíno a Taíno yn bendant) a llawer o wrthrychau a gweddillion. Ond cafodd y safle ei balmantu er mwyn adeiladu&#x27;r ffordd gyflym. Gellir gweld bod gan Paso del Indio sawl hanes sy&#x27;n gwrthdaro, sydd wedi&#x27;u hymgorffori yn y dirwedd a&#x27;r amgylchedd adeiledig. Yn ystod y gwaith cloddio gwreiddiol (1992-1995) cyflogwyd gweithwyr o&#x27;r pentrefi cyfagos i weithio â llaw. Mae&#x27;r prosiect yn dechrau o hanes materol y safle, atgofion y gweithwyr a&#x27;r archaeolegwyr dan sylw, yr hyn a wyddom, a&#x27;r hyn y tybiwn ein bod yn ei wybod am dirwedd a sut mae&#x27;r haenau hyn o ddeunydd a chredoau&#x27;n rhyngweithio i greu cosmogoni cyfoes newydd, un wedi&#x27;i adeiladu ar y llanast, y graffiti, y ffordd gyflym, yr afon, y pentref , y creigwely carst ac olion syniadau trigolion blaenorol am y byd.  La cabeza mató a todos, 2014. Hyd:7’30’’ Ffilm fer yw La cabeza mató a todos neu &quot;Y Pen a Laddodd Bawb&quot;, sy&#x27;n cymysgu mytholegau brodorol â chymeriadau, daearyddiaeth a diwylliant presennol ym Mhuerto Rico. Mae&#x27;r teitl yn cyfeirio at sut y dehonglwyd seren wib (mewn mytholeg leol) fel pen heb gorff, yn croesi&#x27;r wybren, yn arwydd o anhrefn a dinistr yn cyrraedd. Mae&#x27;r actor yn y fideo, Michelle Nonó, mewn cysylltiad â phlanhigion brodorol — mae&#x27;n fotanegydd meddyginiaethol ond hefyd yn weithredydd diwylliannol — sy&#x27;n cynnal digwyddiadau diwylliannol yn ei thŷ, mewn ardal Affro-Caribïaidd ac ôl-ddiwydiannol yn bennaf o&#x27;r enw Carolina. Cyfarwyddiadau i ddinistrio peirianwaith rhyfel gyda swyn. Mae ffurf y swyn hwn yn fanwl. Gyda Mapenzi Chibale Nonó [Mae&#x27;r gath yn egluro wrth Michelle sut i greu swyn. Fe&#x27;i clywir yn llais Michelle (drwy&#x27;r gath):  mae swyn, neu felltith yn gofyn am ymdrech sy&#x27;n cyfateb i hud y swyn  os mai&#x27;r hud yw dinistrio&#x27;r peiriant rhyfel yn llwyr ac yn derfynol  os mai&#x27;r hyn yr ydych am ei wneud yw datgysylltu angor yr awyrlong  sy&#x27;n torri yn eu hanner fel swyn cneuen Ffrengig  sy&#x27;n gofyn am gryn egni i&#x27;w bwyta]

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