<b>Escribir el cielo, escribir el desierto, escribir el acantilado. La escritura material de Raúl Zurita</b> // Writing Sky, Writing Desert, Writing Cliff: the Material Writing of Raúl Zurita
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https://doi.org/10.37536/ECOZONA.2015.6.2.666Keywords:
Raúl Zurita, escritura material, poesía experimental, paisaje, agenciamiento, Material Writing, Experimental Poetry, Landscape, AgencyAbstract
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El objetivo de este trabajo es reflexionar acerca de la escritura material de Raúl Zurita Canessa. Por escritura material entendemos la práctica experimental de inscribir significados fuera del soporte papel, interviniendo materialmente en cuerpos y espacios colectivos, en un cruce entre arte visual, paisaje y escritura. A mediados de la década de 1970, Zurita imagina el cielo y el desierto como inmensas páginas. En 1982, junto al Colectivo de Acciones de Arte (CADA), el poeta consigue que cinco aviones tracen con humo blanco en el cielo de Nueva York los quince versos de su poema “La vida nueva”. Luego, en 1993, con la ayuda de maquinaria pesada, Zurita logró escribir en las arenas del Desierto de Atacama la frase “Ni pena ni miedo”, que por su extensión (3 km.) sólo puede ser leída desde el aire. Recientemente, el poeta ha presentado las primeras maquetas del proyecto Escritura en los acantilados. El entorno no es sólo el soporte de los poemas, también forma parte de la construcción de su sentido. “Mi intento”, señala Zurita (2013), “ha sido juntar la poesía y la naturaleza, porque finalmente son lo mismo. Siempre me han sobrecogido aquellas obras que se niegan a reconocer el límite de lo humano”. La escritura material emerge en un espacio entre los devenires generativos de la naturaleza y de la práctica artística para difuminar los límites entre lo humano y lo no-humano.
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The purpose of this work is to reflect upon Raul Zurita Canessa’s material writing. By material writing we refer to the experimental practice of recording inscriptions on a surface other than paper, intervening collective bodies and spaces physically at an intersection between visual arts, landscape, and writing. In the mid 70’s, Zurita imagined the sky and the desert as immense sheets. In 1982, Zurita, together with the Colectivo de Acciones de Arte (CADA), was able to get five aircraft to trace the fifteen verses of his poem “La vida nueva” (“The new life”) with white smoke over the sky of New York. Later on, in 1993, with the help of heavy equipment, Zurita managed to write the phrase “Ni pena ni miedo” (“Neither sorrow nor fear”), which, due to its extension (3 km.), can only be read from the sky. Recently, the poet has presented his first mock-up of the project Escritura en los acantilados (Writing on the cliffs). The surroundings are not just the means for poems to happen, but they are also part of the construction of their sense. “My attempt”, said Zurita (2013), “has been to pull poetry and nature together, because in the end, they are the same. I have always been startled by work that refuses to acknowledge the limits of human capacity.” The material writing emerges in a space between nature’s generative development and artistic practice in order to blur the boundaries between what is human and non-human.
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