NEON HYPERGLOSSIA, 2025. Commissioned by Artangel UK @artangel_ldn part of the album Earth Rising: Messages from the Blue Pale Dot – Album I, released on June 19. As a continuation of Carl Sagan’s Golden Record sent into space in 1977 The Voyager.
Still from audiovisual work, 5:00min
Courtesy of the artistEmilia Álvarez (b.1985) Artista Visual and multidisciplinary Argentinian artist.
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Neon Hyperglossia . short teaser
2025
Emilia Álvarez
Audiovisual piece, 5:00 min. Commissioned by Artangel (UK) for the album Earth Rising – Messages from the Blue Dot Vol. I
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NEON HYPERGLOSSIA
Neon Hyperglossia imagina una humanidad futura intentando recordarse a sí misma a través de los vestigios del lenguaje basado en palabras. La pieza rescata ritmos y pulsos de textos seleccionados, resaltando las estructuras que los contienen y que continúan latiendo más allá de la ausencia de sus palabras. Al borrar los textos, dejo solo sus signos de puntuación, puntos, comas, signos de exclamación e interrogación, que se transforman en respiraciones, latidos, jadeos, chasquidos de lengua y silencios que persisten en el espacio colectivo.
Inspirada por pensadores como Donna Haraway, Sara Ahmed, Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui y Fabio Zerpa, creé un collage sonoro utilizando mi propia voz, cantos de aves sudamericanas y grabaciones de campo, discos de vinilo, efectos sonoros analógicos y sintetizadores: una arqueología del inconsciente colectivo.
Comisionada por Artangel (Reino Unido) para el álbum Earth Rising – Messages from the Blue Dot Vol. I (2025), la obra responde a la invitación de “presentar la humanidad a sí misma” a través de una escucha radical: preguntando qué queda de lo humano cuando las palabras desaparecen, y qué otras voces, marginales, híbridas, no humanas, podrían seguir hablándonos desde los bordes del lenguaje.
Como continuación del Disco de Oro de Carl Sagan enviado al espacio en 1977 por la Voyager.
Emilia Álvarez (b.1985) Artista Visual and multidisciplinary Argentinian artist.
NEON HYPERGLOSSIA
Neon Hyperglossia imagines a future humanity attempting to remember itself through the remnants of word-based language. The piece rescues rhythms and pulses from selected texts, highlighting the structures that contain them and continue to pulse beyond the absence of their words. By erasing the texts, I leave only their punctuation marks, periods, commas, exclamation marks, and question marks
That transform into breaths, beats, gasps, tongue clicks, and silences persisting in collective space.
Inspired by thinkers like Donna Haraway, Sara Ahmed, Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui, and Fabio Zerpa, I created a sonic collage using my own voice, South American bird calls and field recordings, vinyl records, analog sound effects, and synthesizers, an archaeology of the collective unconscious.
Commissioned by Artangel (UK) for the album Earth Rising – Messages from the Blue Dot Vol. I (2025), the work responds to the invitation to “present humanity to itself” through radical listening: asking what remains of the human when words are gone, and what other voices, marginal, hybrid, non-human, might continue speaking to us from the edges of language.
As a continuation of Carl Sagan’s Golden Record sent into space in 1977 The Voyager.
Emilia Álvarez (b.1985) Artista Visual and multidisciplinary Argentinian artist.
Neon Hyperglossia . Live at Earth Rising Volume I Lunch by Artangel UK. Proposition Studios, London
2025
Emilia Álvarez
