Aequatorlab
Aequatorlab is a multimedia Project started in Rome in February 2007 in collaboration with MLAC (Museo Laboratorio de Arte Contemporaneo) in Rome with the purpose of researching spaces and peoples that can be found along the Equatorial line crossing the artists’ countries of origin, notable Ecuador, Colombia and Brazil. Our research is aimed at opening opportunities of dialogue between social and cultural actors, by means of documenting and producing artworks and developing ideas that can originate from these encounters.
The representation of the Equatorial line as a political trace The AEquatorlab Project develops around the discursive opportunities of an act, such as following an imaginary line that determines the erasure of two opposite worlds, but t also jeans opposition between these, and its possible encounter. We have produced real and virtual itineraries along the Equatorial line, gathering visual, narrative, literary and sound records that portray the experiences of people living along the line. A Project such as Aequatorlab originates from the necessity of a physical displacement that results in a geographic and cultural route The line is a pretext for an inquiry, documents that were produced are at a time symbolic products, but also spaces of thought