Martín Baus

Martín BAUS (Santiago de Chile, 1992) is a multimedia artist, filmmaker, musician, researcher and teacher. His artistic practice investigates the relationships between history, materialism and perception, uniting his interest in the political dimensions of listening, the re-appropriation of archives and the procedures of translation between materialities such as celluloid, sound and text. He is a member of CEIS8, a collective for experimentation with film formats and photochemical processes based in Santiago de Chile, and co-director of the independent record label Radio Fome, which releases improvisation-based music and sound pieces. He’s interested in aurality as a tool for a radical pedagogy from Latin America and as a methodology for artistic and practice-based research. He enjoys engaging with the sonic realm from socio-political and non-sonorous approaches, which is why he has created poetry books related to listening and wording; text installations that engage with opaque language translation procedures; publications around the links between salsa rhythms, migration and working-class struggles; and fictional writings that speculate on the future of sound archives and digital archaeology.

Filmography

Nervio (2017, short), Can limbo (2018, doc), Preludio (a la siesta del fauno y la bacante) (2020, short), cielo abierto / mar abierto / suelo abierto (2020, short), QUEBRANTAHUESOS (2021, short), Al pasar: cartas desde el trópico (2022), Rien à foutre (2023, short), A desalambrar (2024, short), Abajo y a la izquierda/Below and to the Left (2024, short).