Title: Malagana Shamanic Flight

Technique: Digital and printed media on itinerant interactive installation

Size: 2,40 x 6 x 5 m (Height x width x depth)

Year: 2022

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Malagana Shamanic Flight is an interactive art installation that combines digital illustration techniques, printing, and animation systems with augmented reality processes. The design of the artistic piece invites the user to interact in real-time with the narrative of the work through an application, which can be used through different smart devices such as mobile phones or tablets belonging to the Android or iOS operating systems.

 

The artistic piece represents the visions of the Prehispanic spiritual world of the Kansatewra culture, experienced by the shaman – female bird that in her hallucinogenic trance flies through the worlds of the high, the middle, and the deep, discovering the secrets of the cosmos and controlling the forces that govern life.

 

Metals play an important role in the Kansatewra culture universe, colloquially known as Malagana culture. The gold takes the form of the Shaman – bird and the metal objects return to earth as gifts to the gods. Endowed with deep religious meanings, they are offered in lagoons and caves to restore the balance of the world.

 

This artistic project seeks for the youth and adult public of the city of Palmira to collectively access new knowledge, and actively participate in unconventional artistic processes that generate a disruptive change in the method in which they consume art, facilitating learning possibilities, creating new attitudes, beliefs, and practices around the enjoyment of cultural rights.

 

This artistic process became a reality thanks to the sponsorship of the Secretaría de Cultura de Palmira and the collaboration of the following people: María Alejandra Mafla Giraldo, Lorena Andrea Portocarrero Vega, and Karen Daniela Portocarrero Vega.