Abstract

This article unfolds the research and exhibition project Resonaciones. An Embrace to Awake, that originates from an encounter with ancient whistling vessels from the Moche culture from the collection of the Ethnological Museum Stuttgart (Linden Museum). Different forms of knowledge and practices from sound art, new materialism, quantum physics and indigenous philosophies connect within the experiential and experimental setting of the exhibition space. Thus, the potential of curatorial and artistic practice is revealed in forging connections and relations and opening up reflections on philosophical, natural and historical concepts. By reactivating the ancestral technology of whistling vessels, Resonaciones explores the vibrational essence of matter and energy, manifested in sound as a medium of connection and agency. Perceiving reality through vibrations, the ontological boundaries between subject and object, between past, present and future, and spatial conceptualizations break down and reconfigure opening up other modes of remembering and relating to one another.