HYDROGRAPHIC AUSCULTATION CIRCUIT
NOVEMBER 28TH – MARCH 1ST, 2020
Opening: November 28th
Hydrographic Auscultation Circuit is a methodological observatory, data collector, information processor, and language interface. It acts as a link between different media, disciplines, and territories, reimagining the possibilities of the landscape and exploring its ecological imbalances.
CAH studies the concealed and exposed waterways that circulate within Mexico City, as well as their effects on the environment, viewed in constant relation to historical and temporal conditions. The focus of the present exploration is the Becerra river, a body of water whose place and role in the urban territory of Mexico City offers rich material for investigation. Located in the west of the city, it flows from the heights of Santa Fe, through the neighborhoods adjoining Alta Tensión, and on between the thoroughfares of Periférico and Patriotismo, finally running into a deep drainage system at the commencement of a major distributor road. As one of the last visible bodies of water in the center of the city, its bears witness to the desiccation and sanitation polices implemented since the Spanish Conquest, right through to the modern regimes of presidents Porfirio Díaz and Luis Echeverría: river = tubing = drainage.
The CAH is a project by PANÓSMICO (Manolo Larrosa and Mariana Mañón), submitted to the open call entitled “Máquinas imaginantes” (Imaginal Machines), the 2019 edition of a biannual competition organized by LIGA. Roberto Michelsen, Íñigo Malvido, Francisco Ohem, and Mateo Torres Ruiz also collaborated on the project.
