A film by Aerocene

This project is an ongoing dialogue with the communities of
Salinas Grandes y Laguna de Guayatayoc Basin, initiated in 2017
with additional archival fragments dating from 2006 onwards.

Aerocene is an era-in-the-making, a community, a non-profit foundation.

You are invited to be part of this movement for eco-social justice!

We would like to thank those who have facilitated much of this dialogue, especially: Verónica Chávez, Maristella Svampa, Alicia Chalabe, Graciela Speranza, Joaquín Ezcurra, Melisa Argento, Inés Katzenstein, Claudia Aboaf, Maximiliano Laina, DaeHyung Lee and BTS, Manuela Mazure Azcona, Lars Behrendt, Claudia Meléndez Rivera, Sarah Kissner, Gabriela Sorbi, Antonia Alampi, Alicia Andersen, Alicia Cirilo, Alberto Pesavento, Till Hergenhahn, Leticia Marqués, Verónica Fiorito, Sasha Engelman, Hans-Ulrich Obrist, Emma Enderby, Rebecca Lamarche-Vadel, Yasmil Raymond, Bronisław Szerszyński, Pablo Suárez, Nick Shapiro, Carlos Almeida, Bill McKenna, Ludovica Illari, Daniel Birnbaum, Molly Nesbit, Sven Steudte, Barbara Bulc, Violeta Bulc, Josep María Llaidó, Gustavo Alonso Serafín, Ilka Tödt, Dario Laganà, Enrique Viale, Gastón Chillier, 

The Aerocene Foundation is made possible by the generous support of Espace Muraille, Eric and Caroline Freymond.

Directed by: Maximiliano Laina and Tomás Saraceno

Script: Claudia Aboaf, Iosi Havilio, Tomás Saraceno

Texts and voice-over: Tomás Saraceno

Script supervision: Lucía Cash, Max Parnell, Christian Flemm

Content collaboration: Sarah Kisner, Maristella Svampa, Hector Jaquet, Melisa Argento

Assistant director and camera: Gabriela Sorbi

Cinematography and camera: Alejandro Ortigueira (ADF)

Camera: Paulo Sebastián Cazón

Drone pilot: Marcelo Campitelli, Guillermo Eduardo Leniek, Jorge Vidal Sarmento

Sound: Fernando Ribero, Mariana Delgado, Lucas Ulecia

Boom operator: Abril Ayala Siman

Production assistant Pacha: Camille Valenzuela, Olivia Laina 

Media: Lucía Cash, Alejo di Risio, Joaquín Ezcurra, Nazarena Inés Tolaba Vercellone, Florencia Montoya

Post-production coordination: Gabriela Sorbi

Archival images roadblock: Taylor Rees

Film editing: Agustin Kazah, Anna Sofie Hartmann, Manuel Fernandez Lorea, Juliana Manarino Tachella, Margarita Ezcurra, Jonas Weber, Christian Flemm

Collaborators edition: Margarita Ezcurra, Gabriela Sorbi, Christian Flemm, Max Parnell, Nubia Campos Vieira
Colorist: Javier Hick, Santiago Mourino, Leonel Pazos

Editorial advice: Paz Guevara, Mark Peranson

Sound department Pacha: Adriano Salgado and Fernando Ribero

Pacha music by: Martín Torres Manzur

Percussion instruments: Ezequiel “Kelo” Laina

Charango: Alcides Alcón

Jacha quena, Quena, Sikus, Ronroco: Germán Juarez

Wind instruments: Catriel Montano, Luciano Pablo Tacchino, Carlos Andrés Bernal Skinner 

Sound recording: Gato

Couplet (copla): Virginia Vilte, Aurora Nélida Liquin

Musicians:

Singer: Saraí Arjona

Charango and siku: Rafael Arjona

 “El condor pasa” by Mariana Cayón
“Canto a la ballena” by Beatriz Pichi Malen

Musician: Miguel Lucio Cruz

“Sudestada” by Churay Churay

Original music: Federico Baglietto

Additional sound recording: Max Parnell

Voice over lithium: Gabriela Olarieta

Post-production sound: Triton Sonido

Sound design: Manuel de Andrés, Micaela Ritacco, Alejandro Marani

Sound editing: Alejandro Marani

Sound mixing: Manuel de Andrés, Alejandro Marani

Original Music: Ignacio de Andrés

Soprano and Bass Clarinet, Panpipe: Lautaro Abrego

Cello and Synths: Chowa

Tarka, Quena, Sikus: Leandro ¨Jacha¨ Brignone

Post-production facilities: Triton Sonido Argentina

Post-production Executive: Manuel de Andrés

Post-production Coordinator: Micaela Ritacco

Management and Accounting: Gonzalo Nuñez

Subtitles: Ivanna Hryc, Maria Boughen, Agustina Santiago

Featuring excerpts from Apollo 11, 2019, directed by Todd Douglas Miller, CNN Films

Featuring news footage from: Al Jazeera, ARD, ARTE, Canal Abierto, Clarín, Deutsche Welle, El Submarino, Infobae, Jujuy al Momento, La Nación, Tagesthemen, Weltspiegel 

Featuring statistical research from Jason Hickel’s Less is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World, 2020, William Heinenmann.

Featuring locations:

Salinas Grandes, Jujuy, Argentina, 2017, 2020 and 2023

with the Communities of Salinas Grandes and Laguna de Guayatayoc Basin, with Aerocene and many other diverse and living collectives

Schönfelde, Germany, 2017

Aerocene Tethered flight with Lars Behrendt, Sven Steudte, Thomas Krahn, Wilhelm-Hack-Museum, Museum Haus Konstruktiv, Public Laboratory for Open Technology and Science

Rosario, Argentina, 2019

Museo Aerosolar Workshop Moving with Franja del Río – Rosario free from carbon, as part of the art/cultural project Franja del Río with Alejandro Ortigueira, Camille Valenzuela Paravic, Eduardo Marengo, Gerardo Agudo, Gonzalo Santiso, Joaquin Ezcurra, Joni Morabes, Luciano González Perlender, Martín Manzur, Maximiliano Laina, Verónica Fiorito

Medellín, Colombia, 2007

Museo Aerosolar Workshop as part of Encuentro Internacional de Medellín,

with Alberto Sierra Maya, Ana Paula Cohen, Jaime Ceron Silva, José Ignacio Roca, Maria Inés Rodriguez and Oscar Muñoz Jaramillo, Juan Camilo

Sharjah, United Arab Emirates, 2007

Museo Aerosolar Workshop as part of Still Life Art, Ecology and the Politics of Change at Sharjah Biennial, with Hoor Al Quasimi and Jack Persekian

Cuninico, Loreto, Peru, 2015

Museo Aerosolar with Helga Elsner Torres, Ramiro Espinoza Wong, Sachiko Kobayashi, Valentina Maggiolo, Frances Munar Aparicio, Carmen Rosa-Arévalo, Galo Vásquez and all members of the Cuninico village

San Martín, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2018

Museo Aerosolar Reconquista as part of I Congreso Internacional de Arte y Ciencia “Los cielos”, UNSAM, with Carlos Almeida, Ernesto “Lalo” Paret, Nora Rodríguez, Nora Rodríguez, Marcos Perearnau, Camila Almeida, Nehuen Serpa, Joaquín Ezcurra, Maximiliano Laina

Lima, Perú, 2014

Museo Aerosolar as part of Development and Climate Days, United Nations Conference for Climate Change, COP20, with Pablo Suárez and Red Cross

Flakensee, Woltersdorf, Germany, 2019

Free flight De-NOx with Nick Shapiro, Sasha Engelmann

Ushuaia, Argentina, 2017

Aerocene as part of Antarctic Biennale with Lizz Barry and Nick Shapiro from Public Lab

Davos, Switzerland, 2017

Aerocene Lecture Beyond the Anthropocene as part of STEM + ART = STEAM, at World Economic Forum (WEF)  with Tomás Saraceno, Nick Shapiro and Ignas Petronis

Schönefeld, Berlin, Germany, 2017

Free flight Eggersdorf, Helianthus

Somié, Cameroon, 2019

with the community of Somié, Bollo Pierre ‘Tadios’, David Zeitlyn, Iréné Nguea Penny Fraser, Denis Ndeloh and Maximiliano Laina

London, 2016

Imperial College London, The Natural History Museum, and The Royal College of Art,

Aerocene as part of Exhibition Road interdisciplinary project 

with Natasha Almeida, Dr. Harriet Hawkins, Thomas Hill, Sam Hertz, Sir Brian Hoskins, Audrey Gaulard and Katie Weeks.

Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France, 2018

ON AIR with Aerocene – various aerosolar activities with Rebecca Lamarche-Vadel, Sasha Engelmann, Primavera de Filippi, Stavros Katsanevas, Tomás Saraceno, Nick Shapiro, Débora Swistun, Derek McCormack, Marie Thébaud-Sorger, Sam Hertz, Karine Léger, Jol Thomson and Heinz Wismann

Grand Palais, Paris, France, 2015

Aerocene as part of Solutions COP21 during the United Nations Climate Change Conference COP21.

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Centre for Art, Science and Technology – CAST, Boston, USA, 2018

with and Leila Wheatley Kinney, and Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Science Department – EAPS, Ludovica Illari, Glenn Flierl and Bill McKenna

Schönfelde, Germany, 2016

Together, Around the World to Change the World – 27 August 2016, Gemini launch: 

Aerocene Gemini Free flight from Schönfelde, Berlin to Biskupiec, 

Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship, Poland with Nick Shapiro, Sven Steudte, Thomas Krahn

Plaza de Mayo, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2019

Aerocene and Fridays For Future, Global Climate Strike,

with Gabriela Sorbi, Maximiliano Laina, Mirko Laina, Oli Laina, Amalia Boselli, Camille Valenzuela, Joaquín Ezcurra

Aerocene gatherings in Rummelsburg, Berlin, Germany, 2017

Paris, France, 2018

Aerocene freeing the air during Global Climate Strike, and 

as part of Fab City Summit, Fab City Global Initiative

Delta del Paraná, Tigre, Buenos Aires, 2019

Aerocene Futuros Posibles Tigre with Agua alta, Amalia Boselli, Camille Valenzuela, Escuela N° 8 Manuel Belgrano de Islas, Gabriela Sorbi, Guadalupe Boado, Ismael Romero Vargas, Joaquín Ezcurra, La Residuoteca, Maximiliano Laina, Mirko Laina, Olivia Laina.

Brandenburg Gate, Berlin, Germany, 2019

Aerocene in support of Fridays for Future, Global Climate Strike

Alfarcito Gathering, 2023 

San Francisco de Alfarcito, Jujuy, Argentina

With the communities of Salinas Grandes and Laguna Guayatayoc Basin:

Armando Morales, Próspero Sarapura, Iber Sarapura, Elina Alejo, Laureana Alejo, César Alejo, Omar Quipildor, Orlando Quipildor, Lucas Quipildor, Guillermo Quipildor, Horacio Quipildor, Jorgelina Quipildor, Gastón Sarapura, Marcos Barconte, Luis Quipildor, Gabriel Morales, Lautaro Quipilador, Erika Gutiérrez, Tiago Barrancas, Jorge, Melani Kimey, Inocensia Alejo, Sofía Tolaba, Luz Elena Guarí, Cristiano, Catriel Morales, Angela Llampa and all of the other participants of this gathering.

Interviewees:

Verónica Chávez, Gastón Chillier, Lucas Quipildor, Maristella Svampa, Enrique Viale

Featuring:

Claudia Aboaf, Melisa Argento, Gabriela Cabezón Cámara, María Laura Castillo Díaz, Alicia Chalabe, Bruno Fornillo, Inés Katzenstein, Maximiliano Laina, Pía Marchegiani, Graciela Speranza, Maristella Svampa, Tomás Saraceno, Lucía Cash Beare, Alejo di Risio, Joaquín Ezcurra, Mai Lumi Azcona, Laura Lumi Azcona, Manuela Mazure Azcona, March Mazzei. 

With the participation of the Environment and Natural Resources Foundation, the Action Collective for Ecosocial Justice, the Mirá Socio-environmental Collective, the Geopolitics and Commons Study Group, the Argentine Association of Environmental Lawyers, and the Ecosocial and Intercultural Pact of the South.

Alfarcito Gathering, 2023 was produced by the Aerocene Foundation and Studio Tomás Saraceno.

Fly with Aerocene Pacha, 2020 

Salinas Grandes and Laguna de Guayatayoc Basin, Jujuy, Argentina

The Fly with Aerocene Pacha film series was first exhibited at Centro Cultural Kirchner (CCK),

Curated by Verónica Fiorito.

With the communities of Salinas Grandes and Laguna de Guayatayoc Basin:

Verónica Chávez, Nestor Alberto, Eloy Quispe, Natividad Vilte, Rubén Chino Galián, Leandro F. Galián, Wara M. Galián, Abigail Galián, Clemente Flores, Andrés René Castillo y Familia, Saraí Arjona, Rafael Arjona, Virginia Vilte, Aurora Nélida Liquin, Olga B. Liquin, Ana María Chuichuy, Yamile Victoria Chuichuy, Luciana Fernanda Chuichuy, Elifonso Córdoba, Lilia Alancay, Eulalio Loreto Barconte, Jorge ‘Laucha’ Fernandez, Ricardo Alankay, Diego Domínguez, Feliciano Flores, Mercedes Vilte, David Barrionuevo and family, Analía Vilte, Leopoldo Cañari, Natividad Calpanchay, Santiago Lamas, Anastasia Castillo, Red Puna y Quebrada, Oscar Alancay, Nicolas Alancay, Ronaldo Castillo, Daniel Castillo, Diego Liquin, Rita Tinte, Amante Sixto and all of the other participants of this gathering.

Interviewees:

Virginia Vilte, Aurora Nélida Liquin, Ana María Chuichuy, Yamile Victoria, Chuichuy, Luciana Fernanda Chuichuy, Leandro Facundo Galian, Clemente Flores, Rubén, Fernando Galian, Nestor Alberto, Ildefonso Córdoba, Andrés René Castillo, Lilia Alancay, Eulalio Loret, Luis Gonzagas Quipildor, Verónica Chávez

Flight:

Pilot: Leticia Marqués

Supported by pilots Carlos Niebuhr & Igor Mikloušić

With assistance from: Joaquin Ezcurra, Maximiliano Laina, Sarah Kisner, Sarah Greenberg, Manuela Mazure Azcona, Mariana Lumi Azcona, Alice Lamperti, Roxanne Mackie, Erik Vogler, Georgi Kazlachev, Jazmin Schenone, Javier Rosenberg, Daniele Lucchini, Julieta Gibelli, Lars Behrendt, Saverio Cantoni, Dario-Jacopo Laganà, Claudia Meléndez Rivera, Jillian Meyer, Marina Hoxter, Connie Chester, Graciela Speranza and Confederación Argentina de Entidades Aerodeportivas, Buenos Aires (CADEA)

Film crews:

Les Jovenes

Matias Arturo Tarrés y Diega Belaunzarán Colombo

Filmy Wiktora

Gastón Solnicki, Alan Segal, Diego Poleri, Francisco D´Eufemia, Mali Collasso, Federico Colleta

Canal Encuentro

Julia Solomonoff, Ana Quiroga, Bernabé Demozzi, Lucas Turturro, Sofía Harriague, Lorena Laborde, Christian Staufacher, Manuel Fernández Lorea, Pato Lanutti

Pacha

Maximiliano Laina, Gabriela Sorbi, Alejandro Ortigueira, Camille Valenzuela, Olivia Laina, Fernando Ribero

Drone pilots

Marcelo Campitelli, Guillermo Eduardo Leniek, Jorge Vidal Sarmento

And a very special thanks to DaeHyung Lee and BTS:
RM, Jin, Suga, J-Hope, Jimin, V & Jungkook
and the fans of BTS who joined us in Salinas Grandes,
opening their minds and their hearts to the Aerocene era

The sculpture for Fly with Aerocene Pacha was made possible with the generous support from Christian Just Linde

Fly with Aerocene Pacha was produced by the Aerocene Foundation and Studio Tomás Saraceno.

Supported by CONNECT, BTS.

Aircraft

Aerocene Pacha

FAI World Records and Aeronautical Coordination

Joaquín Ezcurra

Tata Inti, 2017

Salinas Grandes and Laguna de Guayatayoc Basin, Jujuy, Argentina & Tecnópolis, Buenos Aires, Argentina

With Abel Mamani, Agustina de Ganay, Alfio Demestre, Alicia de Arteaga, Ana Lia Laura Palavecino, Daniela Gutiérrez, Eduardo Marengo, Erica Bohm, Froilán Colque, Gabriela Urtiaga, Guadalupe Pardo, Guido Ignatti, Guido Poloni, Hernán Soriano, Inés Leyba, Joaquín Ezcurra, Laura Daldin, Laura Nieves, Magdalena Molinari, Mariano Giraud, Martin Bonadeo, Mateo Amaral, Mauricio Florentino, Maxi Bellman, Maximiliano Laina, Oliverio Duhalde, Pablo La Padula, Patricia Saragueta, Pio Torroja, Sabrina Martinez Zunni, Sofia Petit de Meurville, Santiago Orti, Sven Steudte, Tomás Saraceno, Yisell Sarasua.

Ruda Macho 

Elías Sáez, Juan Pablo Bagnato, Clarisa Tamini, Ignacio Chanetón, Diego Faedo Pérez, Sebastián Argüello, Patricio Lladós, Germán Cantero, Tomás Elizondo, Ofelia Fernández.

This project was made possible thanks to the support of Centro Cultural Kirchner / Sistema Federal de Medios y Contenidos Públicos / Argentina. 

We would like to thank everyone who has contributed in helping us enter the Aerocene era.

Sasha Engelmann, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Centre for Art, Science and Technology – CAST, Leila Wheatley Kinney, and Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Science Department – EAPS, Ludovica Illari, Glenn Flierl, Bill McKenna, Hans-Ulrich Obrist, Daniel Birnbaum, Molly Nesbit, Rebecca Lamarche-Vadel, Bernard Blistene, Lea Zeberli, Pep Julià, Carlo Antonelli, Josep María Llaidó, Agnes Husslein-Arco, Mario Codognato, Marianne Torp, Rutger Wolfson, Joseph Becker, Elizabeth Thomas and Phyllis Wattis, Jacob Fabricius, Rob La Frenais, Lorenzo Malloni, Jean-Paul Felley, Olivier Kaeser, Ellie Buttrose, Studio Tomás Saraceno, Florian Matzner, Corentin Ragot, José Roca, Theo Tegelaers, Adrian Notz, Cédric Carlès, Ewen Chardonnet, Ralph Rugoff, Anna Tilroe, Gayatri Uppal, Sabrina van der Ley, Markus Richter, Mohammad Kazem, Eva Scharrer, Jonathan Watkins, Pierluigi and Natalina Remotti, Francesca von Habsburg, Markus Reymann, TBA21 Academy, Garance Primat, Caroline Eggel, Christiane Rekade, Marco Biraghi, Maurizio Bortolotti, Bert Theis, Juan and Patricia Vergez, Anne Strauss, Meredith Malone, Yona Friedman, Nikolaus Hirsch, Peter Weibel, Filippo Garrone, Frederik Jacobi, Barbara Bulc, EU Commissioner for Transport Violeta Bulc, Blaz Pongracic, Mark Lawrence, Stefan Schaffer from the Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies (IASS), and the artistic creation funding program of France, Mondes nouveaux, Transsolar, the Art Institute at Technische Universität Braunschweig, Erik Bordeleau from the Economic Space Agency, Emmanuele Braga, to Adam Greig, Daniel Richman, Jamie Wood, Yun-Hang Cho, Tzen Chia from Advanced Hackspace CUSF – Habhub, Igor, Tom and Maria Miklousic from Baloni club Zagreb. Luca Cerizza, Sara Arrhenius, For their support to the Exhibition Road interdisciplinary project in London in 2016, Carlo Rizzo, the Imperial College London, The Natural History Museum,The Royal College of Art, Natasha Almeida, Dr. Harriet Hawkins, Thomas Hill, Sam Hertz, Sir Brian Hoskins, Audrey Gaulard,  Katie Weeks,  Alberto Pesavento, Carlos Almeida, Till Andersson, Till Hergenhahn, Eduardo Ernesto Marengo, Natalija Miodragovic, Yasmil Raymond, Christiana Rekada, Manuel Scano,  Alessandro Coco, Claire Contamine, Débora Swistun, Denis Maksimov, Gianluca Malgeri, Jol Thomson, Grace Pappas, Walter Munk,  Alicia Andersen, Mariana Saraceno, Martín Saraceno, Michele Saraceno, Antonia Alampi, Belén Alvarado, Udo Kittelmann, Marion Ackermann, Ute Meta Bauer, Joseph Grima, Andrea Lissoni, Pedro Uc Be, María Cohen, Paz Guevara, Alicia De Arteaga, Verónica Fiorito, Cristian Herfert, Friedrich von Borries, Juan Ignacio Fernández Marqués, Nikola Dietrich, Mauro Joaquín Aguirre, Galvan Marcos Antonio, Ignacio Marozzi, Liliana Mazure, Facundo Pages, Valeria Pecoraro, Godofredo Pereira, Janine Randerson, Fernando Ribero, Peifen Sung, Marina Otero Verzier, Alexander Bouchner, Ayushi Dhawana, Beate Engl, Leticia Marqués, Sven Steudte, Graham Stevens, Susanne Witzgall, John Ginsborg, Christian Just Linde, Emma Enderby, Diana Wechsler, Hector Jaquet. Boris Groys, Bronisław Szerszyński, Derek McCormack, Lizzie Carey-Thomas, Chris Bayley, Mike Gaughan, Lou Raggett and the outstanding team at Serpentine Galleries, Kiel Moe, Nicholas Shapiro, Liz Barry, Public Lab, Oliver Morton, Olivier Michelon, Pierre Chabard, Sanford Kwinter, Kimberly Bradley, Marco Ferrari, Margarita Ezcurra, Marie Thébaud-Sorger, Pedro Portellano, Rirkrit Tiravanija, Timo Tuominen, Jennifer Morgan from Greenpeace. Also to Michael Braungart, Matthias Schuler, Michael Kezirian, Iyad Rahwan, Jonathan Ledgard, Sara Dean, William Shubert, Red Cross, Red Crescent, Pablo Suárez and to Bruno Latour. 

A special thanks to Orly Benzacar of Gallery Ruth Benzacar, Buenos Aires.

And to Andersen’s, Copenhagen; neugerriemschneider, Berlin; Pinksummer Contemporary Art, Genoa; Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York/Los Angeles

This edition of the movie was screened and discussed during the Alfarcito Gathering, 2023, Jujuy, Argentina.

We would like to thank the curators at Serpentine for creating a space in which we could share this work during the Web(s) of Life exhibition, London, 2023.

With special thanks to Espace Muraille, Eric and Caroline Freymond.