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HYDRONYM II (Sound composition from Valparaiso Chile) by Correa & Garland

Global migration flows have led to the proliferation of non-places unknown to developing countries such as Chile. The so-called liminal spaces can be understood from an ethnographic point of view. These have to be considered both physical and temporal: it is a geography of intangible borders, in which the human being transits. The aesthetics of their demonstrations serve for their understanding, description and analysis. In specific we work with the images and sounds provided by these spaces and their agents to generate a subjective reading about them. Based on the discurs of Richard Senneth we consider the identity of workcrafts as a local and historical expression. The migrant today occupies a leading role in the workcrafts of Valparaíso in Chile. This identity mutates by direct influence of the other identities of the agents, for example their national, social, religious, ethnic identities, etc … Hydronym II seeks to manifest the differences between a workcraft "in the traditional way" and one "in the non-traditional way". Change framed in the macroeconomic transformations caused by the injection of foreign labor. The nostalgic appreciation of Valparaiso workcraft is in turn a liminal space, as is the condition of a person in a foreign country, who seeks the appropriation of the new space, through the exercise of a trade to leave the liminality . The mutation of the local shops thanks to the mixture of pre-existing and new agents, the agitation in the implicit local economy and the evolution in the techniques and production methods will serve to generate a reflection on the current identity of the city Valparaiso in Chile.