JAMAICA: PRESSURE BLOOM

Jamaica: Pressure Bloom is an interdisciplinary sensory installation that explores the parallel histories of coffee cultivation and Jamaican sound system culture through the shared logic of transformation under pressure.

Developed by Jor Ferraro and Andrés Mainetti (INDÓMITO, Laboratorio Sensorial, Buenos Aires), the work unfolds around a long communal table where coffee preparation, guided listening, and projected image sequences evolve in temporal correspondence. Each stage of the experience aligns a phase of coffee transformation with a historical phase of Jamaican music—mento, ska, rocksteady, dub, dancehall—revealing process as a cultural and material continuum.

Rather than presenting coffee as a consumable product, the project approaches it as a relational and temporal medium through which histories of territory, migration, labor, and sonic innovation become perceptible. Participants inhabit the work collectively, moving through a sequence of sensory conditions structured by duration, heat, and pressure, culminating in the shared act of extraction and tasting.

Jamaica: Pressure Bloom positions preparation as both performative and pedagogical gesture, opening a space where taste, sound, and narrative converge. Rooted in Buenos Aires yet oriented toward transnational cultural geographies, the project operates at the intersection of sensory anthropology, experimental music culture, and contemporary ritual practice.