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The Signifigance of a Waterfall Divided in Two (2024)

Eric Maltz
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In January of 2022, I traveled with my family to Catarata Gocta, a two-tiered waterfall in the high rainforest, just outside of Cocachimba in Peru’s northeast. I seized this opportunity to conduct an artistic research experiment combining field recording, mystical participation, dream work, philosophy, and psychology. I incite and analyze dreams, peel back the perverse layers of my capitalist induced fantasies, exhaust liquid metaphors, engage in forms of mystical participation, discuss whether it’s even possible to record a place at all and draw connections and conclusions whose coherence is, well, maybe not so coherent. This essay touches on Sonic Journalism, the psychologies of Jung, the art criticism of Sontag and Berger and the art of Cage, Duchamp, and Hunter S. Thompson. The field recordings and images presented here are shreds of evidence supporting my own twisted brand of Gonzo Journalism. It is a tight rope walk across microphone cables and book spines, fueled by coffee, internet databases, and obsessive listening. The gravitational current pulling the waters of Catarata Gocta earthward is the dense center around which this essay orbits. Stretching across its horizon, I feel myself emptied, my thoughts laid bare and made available for self-examination.
typeresearch exposition
keywordsfield recording, capitalism, dreams, nature, sound studies
date16/10/2023
published07/06/2024
last modified07/06/2024
statuspublished
copyright2023
licenseAll rights reserved
languageAmerican English
urlhttps://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/2339085/2339086
doihttps://doi.org/10.22501/hub.2339085
published inHUB - Journal of Research in Art, Design and Society
portal issue2. HUB Issue #2 / Spring 2024 / Varia


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