🎥 New on ikonoTV, “Barruntaremos (Inklings)” by Asunción Molinos Gordo

Dear friends,

We are mid-way through COP30, and our “Art Speaks Out” Channels, perhaps we all need a long, grounding breath…

This week, we invite you to slow down and listen, not to cold indicators or distant predictions, but to what Nora Bateson calls Warm Data: the living, relational information we can only perceive when we pay attention to the subtle connections shaping our world.

“Barruntaremos (Inklings)” by Asunción Molinos Gordo, produced by TBA21 - Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, takes us into the rural landscapes of Segovia, Spain.

The title itself carries an essential clue: in Spanish, barruntar means to sense something before it happens, to perceive the world through intuition, relationship, and embodied attention. Shepherds used this word to describe how they read the sky, the soil, and the behavior of animals long before meteorological data existed.

So Barruntaremos means “we will sense again.”

Through the eyes and voice of Pedro Sanz Moreno, a shepherd, a listener, and one of the last guardians of Cabañuelas, an ancestral weather-reading practice, this film becomes a living example of Warm Data in action.

Pedro does not forecast the weather through abstraction; he listens to clouds, wind, humidity, bird movements, and soil textures. He knows the Earth by being in conversation with her. A true Indigenous.

This is knowledge carried in the body.
Knowledge learned through relationships.
Knowledge we are losing.

Asunción Molinos Gordo challenges the romantic, distant image of “landscape” so deeply embedded in art history. Instead, she reveals it as a more-than-human network, an intelligent web where people, animals, wind, and land share one continuous language. A language of signals, gestures, migrations, silences.
A language Pedro calls “the signals of the landscape.”

A language climate change is now interfering with.

And this is where the urgency lies:
What happens when we no longer recognize the Earth’s warnings?
What vanishes when the last shepherd forgets how to read the wind?

At the end of the day, Barruntaremos offers both a mirror and a message.
It shows us a form of ecological intelligence that humanity still possesses, but only barely. It invites us, so to speak, to sense again, before it is too late.

Because sometimes, our future depends not on new data, but on the intuitive, relational ways of knowing we have almost let disappear.

With care,

The ikonoTV Team