Installation by Martina M. Yáñez
27-29.03.2026
“We Heard a Rock Cracking” is a sound installation that reflects on time, geology, and listening from a perspective that intertwines the human and the mineral. The project critically reconsiders ideas of progress, modernity, and technology by examining the historical exploitation shared by both geological matter and human bodies. Rocks are approached as in-process archives that register chronology and human influence through their formations and porosities, while listening is framed as a human act that enables coexistence with the geological. From this dissolution of boundaries, the project asks what kind of history could emerge from the grain of an ageological rock, to reposition us in the act of listening within an archive engraved in the materiality of the planet. Through this gesture, time is articulated as a non-linear accumulation of sounds and vibrations. A body shifting between the mineral and flesh. This way, the installation materializes the relationship between human perception, technological mediation, and geology, bringing into contact different forms of minerality—one that remains human yet seeks geological naturality, and another that remains mineral while embodying technohuman intervention.