2 Crosses

In this podcast episode Juanita Fernandez addresses the political
symbolism of Beuys’s divided cross: as a disunity to be overcome.
She looks at things from her perspective as a sound and
conceptual artist living in Uruguay. In the same way that Beuys
was constantly endeavouring to expand the thinking of everyone
who had gone before him, Juanita Fernandez begins by expanding on
Beuys’s symbolism. She relates the idea of the cross to her
experiences of everyday life in Montevideo: to the sounds and
sights, the people and animals, the legends and symbols, the
stories and skies and stars. Out of her questioning, an
exploration at once poetic and political, a richly associative
soundscape emerges.