I was invited to participate in an interdisciplinary experimental exhibition including: literature, sound, printed / projected art and photography in Cordoba Argentina.
The work presented was particle lake, a kinetic sculpture that explores the ideas of impermanence and opposition.
Supported by the following conceptual statement:
The elements of impermanence and opposition are brought together in this piece to explore the notion of space-time reality we conventionally experience: Iron Particles moving in space like masses of living substance in progressive expansion. Tilting and turning in circular motion, perpendicularly aligning to the kinetic magnetic field prompted underneath. Symbolic of the movement of the cosmos. A whole composed of animate particles moving in space, representing both; the macro expansion/ multitude of form turning into form, as well as the micro expansion / individual moving with a clear sense of direction. Perceived as a natural organism in which the particle is pulled from itself, caught up in a whole greater than itself, no longer belonging to itself but instead, becoming part of a whole.
From being a center, its changed into being an intermediary, a link, no longer existing on its own but rather transmitting to a greater whole.
The piece:
As an attempt to express experience as something fragmented yet somehow connected, this piece was brought together piling up different layers of materials. During this process materials were dismantled to be re-arranged using metal parts taken from a table found in the street, a battery-oriented motor, records, magnets, plexiglass reflective surface and iron particles. All mounted and concealed within an area of one square feet approx.
Call for submission was open to poetry, photography, printed art, projected art and sound. An area was assigned to each participant within the space of the exhibit, an old apartment located in the center of Cordoba city, Argentina. Each work needed to be submitted with guidelines for presentation including: theme, description and format for presentation.
Format:
Using live-stream technology seemed to be the most appropriate way to show the work while being in New York city, 8,000 KM away from Córdoba, Argentina at the time of the exhibition. Envisioned as an immaterial bridge, the format and presentation of the piece was proposed to build a connection between two opposite ends (North-South) supported by the use of technology . The idea of something happening in the north hemisphere transmitting to the south simultaneously was exciting to all of us. Curators agreed with the proposal as we run a series of tests to check how feasible the whole thing was. The whole thing became a collaboration. I invited a musician friend, Kento Ishimoto, with whom I’ve experimented before using this piece (particle lake) together with sound to be part of the performance here in New York. In Cordoba they also invited a musician, Arturo Escudero, to improvise with his piano while image and sound is being projected.
Documentation and edition of this experimental live performance is still a work in progress