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transformed into Radio La Colifata. It operated
from the outset with the idea of including those
who were excluded, giving space to various
discursive productions, respecting what each
person brought to it. From that, the game of
correspondents arose, with the appearance of the
correspondent from heaven, from earth, Mars and
Borda. The productions were, two years later, given
to a schoolteacher who shared them with her
students: seven-year old second-year pupils at a
little school at Dock Sud. Together, they listened to
the patient correspondents and talked about them
with their teacher: who they were, where they lived,
what happened to them, why they were called
mad, etc. After that discussion the teacher suggested
playing correspondents as they had. Child
correspondents from the moon, the sun, from
Mars, Earth, etc. That game was recorded and
then sent to us.
I have not mentioned the ethical and aesthetic
criteria connected to editing, but I could say that
the criteria used for editing this sound fragment
were to investigate how, in the case of the children,
they would construct the relationship with an
other, with a “different” other. From this
perspective their reports demonstrate some very
interesting passages. For example:
“We found some extraterrestrials who were ill”. The
teacher asks what they are like, and a girl replies:
“....they’re...not sooo ugly, they wear green clothing
and they don’t buy the clothing, and there are some
places where they get it from.” It is the same as in the
psychiatric hospital: they do not buy their
clothing, and “there are places where they get it
from”. But that is something that I edit, a cut, a
listening position that considers criteria that aim
to be ethical and aesthetic, and which the group
re releases.
La Colifata TV currently has a 10-minute live
segment on Wednesdays on a Channel-7
programme on terrestrial national television. Two
patients present this live segment, introducing a
range of material produced by other patients.
Following this communicative platform,
television viewers were invited to visit the La
Colifata website and download the microprogramme
“La Colifata goes to School” (which
was what that edited segment was called with
correspondents talking from different locations.
A mixture of recordings of the psychiatric patients
and the school children). The idea was that
anyone who wished to could make drawings and
send the drawings in to us. They could either be
drawings that would be edited by us or a finished
work. I would like to share the first one sent in.
The viewer was called Lula and she made a
plasticine-model animation based on the audio. I
think it is interesting that it does not emphasise
what was previously pointed out: “They don’t buy
their clothing...”; “...They were on one side and we
were on the other...” She created a new series of
meaning, making her work, infinitely and
dramatically expanding what her production
would inspire us to. And that is how we want to
continue, with this community production
mechanism, as Marco Villela so well indicated. In
this art of multiplying meanings and stimulating
productions, intervening in the “web-weaving of
diffusion”