Resumen

GATTAS VARGAS, Maia. Rubble, debris and ashes in the end of the Argentinean North Patagonian landscape. A material analysis by Los muertos dos de Manque La Banca and Puyehue by Victoria Sayago and Bruno Stecconi. Cuad. CILHA [online]. 2023, vol.24, n.2, e006.  Epub 28-Nov-2023. ISSN 1852-9615.  http://dx.doi.org/10.48162/rev.34.070.

In this paper we are interested in observing how two contemporary audiovisual works converse with materials present in the Argentinean north Patagonian territory. To do so, we will work from the philosophical perspective of the new materialisms, who put in crisis the modern epistemology based on a binarism between the human and the non-human, between what is considered living and the inert. Instead, they propose to consider non-human materials as living beings, as actants -in Bruno Latour's (2012) terms- with whom we can converse. In this sense, Jens Andermann (2018) proposes to think the end of landscape, since this concept presupposes an "objectification of the world, spiritualization of the observing subject" (Andermann, 2018, p. 426). If the division between subject/object, activity/passivity enters in crisis, so does the landscape, as it has been understood from Western culture.

In the audiovisuals we will analyze, certain material features of the territory gain special prominence: in the hybrid work Los muertos dos (2016) by Manque la Banca, the spaces on the edge of the tourist landscape of the city of Bariloche (Argentina), with its debris and waste, are recorded. And in the documentary Puyehue (2011) by Bruno Stecconi and Victoria Sayago, the protagonists are the ashes caused by the explosion of the Puyehue volcano, which generated a socio-natural disaster in the region of northern Argentina in 2011.

Palabras clave : landscape; contemporary cinema; new materialisms.

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