Tenths Telluric
Title: Tenths Telluric
Year: 2013
Technique: HD Video (color, sound). Poem in tenths written in 2010, interpretation in Sign Language Chilean by Pamela Montero in 2013
Duration: 2’ 46”
Edition: 1/10
The artist wrote Tenths Telluric after experiencing the 2010 Earthquake in Chile, being in Pichingal, 250 km from the epicenter, which took place in Quirihue, near Conception, with an 8.8-magnitude and a duration of 3 minutes. The poem is composed by 5 stanzas that tell this extraordinary experience, conversing with its referent Puerto Montt is shaking of Violeta Parra, written by her then of his experience of the Great Earthquake of 1960. A tenth is a stanza made up of ten verses octosyllabic lines with a structure of rhymes abbaaccddc, ubiquitous in the Latin american folklore. This video, in which Pamela Montero interprets the poem in Sign Language Chilean, was made for the exhibition Ephemeris: Fragments selected from the recent history of Chile, in the National Historical Museum, and was installed in the Room of indigenous Peoples to establish a link with the minority languages that are part of the Chile current, recognizing the efforts and struggles of these communities by using their tongues.
Tenths Telluric
Pichingal is shaking
under the silvery moon
the peace with which I dreamed
I would be running out
the bed I'm jumping
running on the dew
fearing more for mine
that are still in there
why will run so slow?
on the earth today I don't trust
And has buggered off with fury
the ground gives lashes
my soul in each claw
contracts without lust
and delves into the sorrows
this is going to mean
my mother is embracing
my father comes running
and together we're feeling
the world is ending
Pachamama rarefied
today you don't know
you treat me like a vile mosco
shaking your bowels
and the surrounding areas
are filling up of cracks
until the water is still
become already a tsunami
we are a broken landscape
my heart tightens
When the roar silent
Get up camp
and where was the epicenter
will asking my sister
the five 'and the morning
radio begins transmitting
saying that in Conception
'tá mother of the lamb
the center of the hive
that hits on this occasion
It was worse qu 85
my grandmother has been corroborated
science says that now
the plates were over jumps
and much more hard
Weeping my earth Maulina
del Bío-bío neighbor
this day desolate
adobe collapsed
qu in the twilight assassin.
Ephemeris: (Fragments selected from the recent history of Chile), National Historical Museum, Plaza de Armas, Santiago de Chile
Ephemeris: (Fragments selected from the recent history of Chile), National Historical Museum, Plaza de Armas, Santiago de Chile