Information
Technology
Descriptions & Essays
BOLGERI & MARÍN (Carla - Francisco) Bolgeri - Marín 10-06-2022
M.A.S.S. (Massive Attack Sound System)
Site specific immersive performance carried out after a 3-month residency in the sheds of the _Un Espacio Contemporary Architecture and Sculpture Center in Santiago, Chile.
This work consists in the construction of a 450 m2 paper mantle that the performers manipulate in a 30-minute performance divided into 3 times:
At the beginning the shed is empty and the giant mantle of paper is gathered in the center of the space where the assistants can freely circulate.
The performers begin to spread the paper this causes the redistribution of the public towards the edges of the shed. As the mantle extends, it begins to trap the local air, generating shapes and sounds that expand in the form of wave forces through space.
Then one of the performers continues to wave the paper mantle, while the other begins to connect a series of hooks that hang by transparent threads from rings attached to the roof of the shed. These hooks are connected to elastic straps that are installed in the paper mantle and that by means of the thread that hangs from the roof rings, a pulley system is produced that allows the paper mantle to be lifted from the points where are installed elastic straps.
The performance culminates when the giant paper mantle is suspended in the air as a floating sculpture, thus enabling the public to circulate underneath.
The giant paper mantle is built in relation with the space where the performance will happen and these could be indoors or outdoors.
By expanding the physical characteristics of a sheet of paper, we obtain a materiality through which you can see the sound and wave movements produced in/by the relations and affections between the performers and the materiality itself. Also, from simple manipulations, relations between paper and the air of the space appears in the manner of sounds and forms that refer us, for example, to the immersive experience of waves at the sea. The dimension, intervention and displacement of the paper to the totality of the space where it happens, urges an affective relationship between/with the materiality, its temporalities and the audience. “…It’s not just true that there is a time for everything…everything has its own time, its own temporality…” Timothy Morton, Being Ecological. Random House, 2018.
BOLGERI & MARÍN (Carla - Francisco) Bolgeri - Marín: , 10-06-2022, in: Archive of Digital Art M.A.S.S. (Massive Attack Sound System)
Site specific immersive performance carried out after a 3-month residency in the sheds of the _Un Espacio Contemporary Architecture and Sculpture Center in Santiago, Chile.
This work consists in the construction of a 450 m2 paper mantle that the performers manipulate in a 30-minute performance divided into 3 times:
At the beginning the shed is empty and the giant mantle of paper is gathered in the center of the space where the assistants can freely circulate.
The performers begin to spread the paper this causes the redistribution of the public towards the edges of the shed. As the mantle extends, it begins to trap the local air, generating shapes and sounds that expand in the form of wave forces through space.
Then one of the performers continues to wave the paper mantle, while the other begins to connect a series of hooks that hang by transparent threads from rings attached to the roof of the shed. These hooks are connected to elastic straps that are installed in the paper mantle and that by means of the thread that hangs from the roof rings, a pulley system is produced that allows the paper mantle to be lifted from the points where are installed elastic straps.
The performance culminates when the giant paper mantle is suspended in the air as a floating sculpture, thus enabling the public to circulate underneath.
The giant paper mantle is built in relation with the space where the performance will happen and these could be indoors or outdoors.
By expanding the physical characteristics of a sheet of paper, we obtain a materiality through which you can see the sound and wave movements produced in/by the relations and affections between the performers and the materiality itself. Also, from simple manipulations, relations between paper and the air of the space appears in the manner of sounds and forms that refer us, for example, to the immersive experience of waves at the sea. The dimension, intervention and displacement of the paper to the totality of the space where it happens, urges an affective relationship between/with the materiality, its temporalities and the audience. “…It’s not just true that there is a time for everything…everything has its own time, its own temporality…” Timothy Morton, Being Ecological. Random House, 2018.
Literature
Exhibitions & Events