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Designing and creating an Interplanetary Taxonomic Journal: Construction of an Interplanetary Taxonomic Journal that consists of narrative, graphic and visual material. Inspired by the Orbis Pictus (images and names of all fundamental things and life’s activities in the world), we propose the making of a journal where participants can explore and take into fieldwork. It will serve to register data, relevant information, images and graphs, notes, mappings, drawings, sensations, and anything else that the artists consider necessary for the development of a memory of Simulacros interplanetarios. The analog version of each journal will be available as mediation material in exhibitions. Finally, the journals can also be used as source material to undertake editorial processes around the experience.

Construction of an Open Sound Archive: Construction of a sound archive taking as a point of departure the documentation of the exploratory experiences in this analog mission. We propose the understanding of sound as a significant matter within the landscape and, thus, as a powerful resource for artistic work. In this sense, the main objective of this exercise is the active listening and documenting of what the landscape communicates to us. The various recordings made by the artists will make up an open sound archive that allows for a democratic access to the soundscape of the El Pinacate and Gran Desierto de Altar Biosphere Reserve, to be shown and socialized in exhibitions.

Construction of a Collective Atlas: Inspired by the psychogeographic driftings of the situationists and understanding the notion of drifting as an aesthetic practice, we will invite artists to carry out a series of actions (documenting, collecting, composing, among others) to construct a Collective Atlas. Throughout history, humans have found the collections of maps to be deeply important to their understanding of relations, reliefs, oceans, surfaces, limits, and symbols, which gives them a pedagogic relevance that we want to highlight. For this reason, we will take the actions thought out for the duration of the analog mission in the El Pinacate and Gran Desierto de Altar Biosphere Reserve as building blocks for an Atlas, where we shall put together the records and findings, in order to draw symbolic relationships. The composition will be accompanied by didactic labels that allow its reading.

Designing and creating an educational fanzine: Assuming editorial practices as artistic processes, we propose the artists to design and create a graphic self-published piece inspired by the visual and sound archives, to synthesize the experience at the Simulacros interplanetarios residency. It shall be a collective graphic work with an educational orientation, allowing for it to be used as a dissemination tool for the community. This piece could also serve as a postal object, spreading the experience beyond the Sonoran Desert territory, overcoming geographical limits, and reaching other regions of Latin America. The fanzine will also be adapted and digitized so that it can be downloaded from the Terremoto website.