Artifacts of a Transcultural Inventory are tangible and digital manifestations that emerge from the conceptual territory Cultural Smuggling Routes. https://www.labirintoonirico.art/en/rotasdocontrabandocultural

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Each artifact functions as an activated memory point, an artistic and poetic synthesis that condenses centuries of transit between Galicia, Brazil, and the digital universe.

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This inventory is not a static collection of objects from the past; it is a living catalog of updates. They are devices created to process historical burdens and objects found in dérives, "returning" them to the world in new forms—code, sound, interactive audiovisual images, and blockchain records.

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Inventory as Process

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The creation of these artifacts stems from a methodology of technological and affective archaeology. Paloma Klisys operates on the "poetic magma" of her matriarchal lineage, extracting elements—rhythms, phonemes, visual patterns, and oral narratives—to subject them to contemporary processes of transformation and renewal.

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The inventory is organized into three fundamental pillars:

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• Recovery: The rescue of memory fragments that resist erasure.

• Discovery: The serendipitous encounter between oral tradition, the chance of meetings, and the rigor of algorithms.

• Invention: The production of new records that come to exist as unprecedented elements for future generations.

 

Artifact I

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Artifact I inaugurates this inventory as a synthesis-work.

It represents the first artistic gesture of a lineage that, until now, held its memories only in the body and the voice, often without any record.

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By converting this "heritage" into interactive and audiovisual art, the artifacts establish bridges between the past and the present, projecting new possibilities for envisioning the construction of possible futures and new philosophies of interaction and conviviality.

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Permanence and Flow

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In dialogue with decentralized recording technologies, some of these artifacts explore the concept of digital permanence.

By utilizing tools such as blockchain, the artist ensures that these "memories"—poetically altered and smuggled across centuries—find a new type of territory that can operate outside centralized controls of cultural legitimation, fueling decolonial becomings in transdisciplinary research and creative processes.