Amor Muñoz (MX, 1979)
Residency period: July 2025
During my residency, I began a new artistic investigation into corn and spatial sound. I was interested in thinking about the seed as a magical, ceremonial element. In the Mayan worldview, corn is a sacred grain with which the gods created humans. It is still used today in ceremonies as an oracle, a means of divination, and even as a spiritual GPS to locate lost people, souls, or objects. I am interested in these parallels between the magical and the technological.
‘Cyborg Corn’ is a four-channel sound installation activated by augmented reality in the form of a shamanic ritual, using a popcorn necklace (a pre-Columbian ceremonial ornament associated with flowering). The piece immerses us in a soundscape that blends birdsong and the buzzing of bees with Morse code sounds and electromagnetic waves, using mobile phone software and the presence of an amplified kernel of corn. The piece seeks to redefine the boundaries between the organic and the artificial, and between the ancestral and the technological.
The sculpture was made using 3D printing. However, from the beginning, I intended to make it in ceramic, which became possible after a long process. It was a great experience learning the essentials of ceramics from scratch in La Becque’s workshop : creating the 3D model, making a mold, preparing the perfect clay mix, and understanding the drying, firing, and painting processes. It wasn’t easy, but thanks to the team’s support, we were able to complete the piece on the last day! — Amor Muñoz
Invited to La Becque as part of a residency with Plateforme 10, Amor Muñoz has been working at the intersection of crafts and experimental electronics for over a decade—especially with electronic textiles. Her practice involves replacing hard circuits with soft ones, transforming the rigid language of engineering into a soft, tactile, and flexible mode of expression. This intersection of technology and craftsmanship has led her to develop various strands of research and practice, including explorations of labor and technodiversity, poetic approaches to code, and the relationship between bio-based crafts and technology.
Amor Muñoz, La Becque, 2025, photo Matthieu Croizier and Amor Muñoz