corina lipavsky | media art

Oct 17, 2022

#tupiornottupi

“Only anthropophagy unites us. Socially. Economically. Philosophically.

The world’s only law. The masked expression of all individualisms, of all collectivisms. Of all religions. Of all peace treaties.

Tupi or not Tupi, that is the question…”

Anthropophagous Manifesto. Oswald de Andrade. 1928.

#tupíornottupí is a speculative fiction, a cannibal synthesis that devours and assimilates the organic and the technological, the modern and the traditional. A taxonomy of tropical cyborgs inspired by Caribbean culture. Algorithmic abstractions based on the colors and geometries of the Wayuu people.

A series of generative pieces resulting from biological data taken from native plants of the region, translated to images and sounds.