LEITURAS DE DOMINGO

VIEWS FROM ABOVE: LOCATIVE NARRATIVE
AND THE LANDSCAPE

Picture a suburban mini mall. It has a nail salon, a dingy store to buy wholesale cigarettes, a convenience store and a pet store. Now, picture it 15 years earlier and the supermarket is having its grand opening. Next, imagine a motel that stood for 30 years. The location is the same. It is the same spot where, in 1935, during a severe thunderstorm, an influential blues record was recorded. The mini mall stands now, but all of these other places once inhabited the same block.

If you put a record needle down on the grooves of that blues record, it will trigger the sounds of that lost night and the building long erased. Locative media and locative narrative aims to allow the place itself to trigger all of its lost incarnations...

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