Vesper No. 6 | Magic | Spring-Summer 2022
Carlos
Casas
Chid/Avalanche. Vernacular
Domestic Architecture in the Pamirs, its Cosmological and Magical Dimensions
and its Transposition into an Audiovisual Project
Avalanche is a long-term commitment project dedicated to
Hichigh, one of the highest inhabited villages in the Pamirs, Badakshan, Tadjikistan. Starting from the cosmogony of local traditions and its music, it is an audio-visual installation
and also an architectural project that mirrors, transposes, and distils the
concepts of the traditional Pamiri house or Chid. It is a multi-format work, an expanded ethnographic
research and film, based and inspired on the millenary spiritual richness of
the region and its human and geographical ecology. An audio-visual meditation
on disappearance and the passing of time as well as the unstoppable avalanche
of civilization. The
project aims to transform the spatial and cosmic setting of a Pamiri house, a
space that can be transformed from its ritualistic function into contemporary
means of ritual exchange, using projections, sounds, light, heat, temperature,
smoke, smell, and other possible architectural and sculptural expressions. Avalanche wants to deal with the
physical and spiritual dimensions of sound, through traditional music, but also
and especially with how contemporary practices embody traditional ways and
traditional music to channel new healing and, sometimes, more esoteric
practices.
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