Elisa Balmaceda is part of the 2022 residency programme in collaboration with Chile. During the residency, Elisa is working on the project Líneas de Poder *** /// *** Powerlines which will be presented in the 2023 festival edition.

An inquiry on the possibility of challenging dominant energetic extractive economies through Andean cosmotechnics, Líneas de Poder /// Powerlines is a research project that looks into Andean phenomenology through cosmic, planetary and telluric alignments, and their connections with contemporary energetic extractive economies.

Combining personal and experimental research on solar and geomagnetic data with her training by Andean energetic practitioners and investigation on unknown archives of parascientific knowledge in Germany, the project seeks to bring new understanding to the relations between these energies with the human body and planetary cycles. Taking a “huaca” in the artist's hometown as a starting point, Líneas de poder *** /// *** Powerlines reimagines the ceque system – a series of ritual pathways leading outward from Cusco into the rest of the Inca Empire. In this installation, Elisa Balmaceda reimagines these lines, linking them to the contemporary post-natural landscape, which is dominated by electric power lines and private extractive infrastructures.