Posthumans and cyborg dreams of + beings in the Andes

Based in highland villages and the city of El Alto, Bolivia. These images represent the bodies and technology, local women together with non-human entities such as plants, animals, and landscapes, evoke ancestral practices typical of Andean rituality.

“Post-humans and cyborg dreams of + beings in the Andes” is a visual essay begun in 2023 in the department of La Paz, Bolivia, based in its highland villages and the city of El Alto, Bolivia. These images represent the bodies and knowledge of local women who, together with non-human entities such as plants, animals, and landscapes, evoke ancestral practices typical of Andean rituality and emulate their relationship with technology.

This project arises from an authorial conceptualization towards a collective performative act and results in a symbiosis between cyborg, feminism, and Andean culture, where the boundaries between urban and rural dissolve.

Real and imaginary spaces are recontextualized through the use of RGB and LED lighting that generate hybrid atmospheres in which the bodies of the protagonists are transformed through the simulation of artifacts. The play of temporalities seeks to establish science fiction in the territory itself. Thus, rituality materializes and extends in a context of accelerated globalization between cybernetics and technology, which constantly transforms the local cultural landscape.