NY -INSTALLATION -SOUND PERFORMANCE
Particle lake was set in motion under a vaulted ceiling, a 110-foot cast iron dome resting on stone arches, featuring a colorful mural of symbols and rays, extending up towards the blue sky.
In 2010, the Williamsburg Savings Bank, a 135-year old landmark building, a classical revival in style began a four-year of meticulous, all-encompassing interior and exterior restoration. I was part of this process in collaboration with other architects, artisans and artists and still have access to this stunning work of art and architecture of monumental proportions. Having the opportunity, I chose to utilize it as a site to further experiment and engage with spatial and architectural elements that relate to the ideas of polarity and impermanence already present within my process, and to emphasize the original conceptual statement proposed for this live-stream/ experimental performance, bearing in mind the macro scale of the dome in relationship with the micro scale of the sculpture as well as considering the apparent motion of the vaulted mural in dialogue with the actual motion of iron particles tilting and turning onto the limited surface of the sculpture. Experimenting with sound was part of the challenge, considering this monolithic structure mainly built in granite and marble, where acoustic is poor and echo is always present.
Casting, reflecting, projecting, motion, sound and light. The whole thing happened in 1 ½ hour period of time, it was an introspective and collaborative play, we were 6 people in the space, each of us chose to interact with an instrument/ object. Playing motion with the sculpture, sound with bells, and multiple instruments including kalimba, guitar, percussion, pedal loops and lights. In tandem, these interactions are being recorded by the use of a web cam while traveling 8,000 km down south and transmitted via livestream technology. The whole package of sound, light and image is being projected in Cordoba- Argentina within a room of small proportions, it is loud and crowded. People come in and out while a musician is improvising with a piano.
LIVE STREAMING_NORTH (NY) SOUTH (CBA-ARGENTINA)
A multilayered piece of sound and sculpture using: guitar, kalimba, loop pedals, percussion, voice and bells to create a reflective, repetitive, open and bright sound environment in dialogue with of a kinetic sculpture composed of iron particles, copper bar, magnets and battery oriented motor.
duration: 1 1/2 Hour
LIVESTREAM PROJECTION- SOUND PERFORMANCE-CBA-ARGENTINA
The whole package of sound, light and image is being received and projected in Cordoba- Argentina within a room of small proportions, it is loud and crowded. People come in and out of the room while a musician is improvising with a piano.
What happened during this experimental exhibit took place simultaneously in three places at the same moment in different latitudes and coordinates of time and space including the virtual edge. The use of technology opened an array of possibilities to different ways of sharing the work, a virtual, less tangible form, far from the limits of the walls within the studio. The realization of new possibilities for interaction, sharing and collaboration sprung together with the potential resting in the interaction between work and experience.
The work and words of the kinetic artist Julio Le Parc comes to mind after recently visiting his show at the Met Breuer. The following are notes I took from an interview done to the artists which I found inspiring to my process:
His work was about creating an experience without conducting any sort of scientific investigation but rather based on direct experience and practice. On one side it was the experience on the surface he created (diagrams, drawings and kinetic sculptures) and on the other side was the viewer, in between was the relationship between the eye and the surface proposed. Back in the 60’s and 70’s, when he developed his work the spectator was left out from the world of visual arts, in turn he wanted each spectator, with whatever she or he possessed in and of himself and with his/her own innate capacity to see, observe and interact, to be able to establish a relationship with the presented experience or work. Experimenting with that meant putting before the spectator not a fixed work that would be full of possibilities but rather the possibilities themselves as infinite variables facing the viewer.