Crónica de Viaje by Jorge Carrión is a literary work printed in the form of a laptop that uses the Google search engine. Carrión is on a mission to find and learn more about the history of his Andalusian family. He uses Google's features such as images, videos, and maps to discover his identity and history.
Crónica de viaje de Jorge Carrión es un texto literario en la forma impresa de un ordenador que usa el buscador de Google. Carrión esta en una misión para encontrar y aprender más sobre la historia de su familia andaluza que fue perdida durante la guerra civil española. Usa los recursos de Google como las imágenes, los videos y los mapas para descubrir esta parte de su identidad.
"Solo fui una vez, se hacia en el Parque Forestal, me choco ver a una niñá que yo conocia, no me acuerdo si del colegio o del barrio, vestida de sevillana, a mi nunca me disfrazaron, de hecho no recuerdo nada tipicamente andaluz en mi infancia, a parte de los viajes periodicos a Santaella y aquella unica vez que fuimos a La Alpujarra..." (p. 9)
"Si yo te contara... Mi abuelo, el padre de mi madre, se murio sentao, cavando en la viña, cerca del rio, lo encontraron sentao, y muerto." (p. 13)
Text was originally published in 2009. Republished in 2014 to mimic a laptop.
The Winnipeg: The Poem that Crossed the Atlantic consists of a website with information about these interdisciplinary research project and the poetic space of “The Poem that Crossed the Atlantic”; an interactive, multilinguistic transatlantic sea of stories fed by the uploaded posts gathered in the website. The main inspiration has been a personal story rooted in historical events of the Spanish Civil War and the Spanish and Chilean Historical Memory, due to the involvement of the Chilean poet Pablo Neruda in the evacuation and rescue of 2,200 Spanish civil war exiles from French concentration camps. The author worked with Alexandre Dupuis-Belin as creative programmer.
The aim of this interdisciplinary practice-based artistic investigation has been to create a multi-linguistic and interactive online poetic narrative, The Poem that Crossed the Atlantic, and this accompanying website. The Poem is fed by the stories gathered in the website through uploaded posts. The interlacing of the stories will increase with the number of posts. Its main inspiration has been a personal story rooted in historical events of the Spanish Civil War and the Spanish and Chilean Historical Memory, interconnected with the involvement of the Chilean poet Pablo Neruda in the evacuation and rescue of 2,200 Spanish civil war exiles- including my own grandfather- from French concentration camps to Valparaiso, Chile, in the Winnipeg ship in 1939.
Creative Programming: Alexander Dupuis