The work of abyss and time

Transmedia research project

Artworks

Title: Every abyss is a poem yet unfinished (2022)
Format: mixed-media installation
Materials: infrared heating light, transducer, displays, digital video, unfinished texts

Title: That which stays (2022)
Format: transmedia performance
Materials: transducer, infrared heating light, journal

Title: Becoming tropical (2023)
Format: transmedia lecture-performance
Materials: transducer, infrared heating light, manifesto

Short Description

The work of abyss and time consists on an open-ended auto-ethnography of mourning, investigated by the performativity of text, light and heat. Through different gestures, the project is a biographical attempt of making kin with grief by performing corazonar (the “warming up” of reason) as a means of research into the abyss of representation engendered by loss.

In Every abyss is a poem yet unfinished, unfinished video recordings, essays and poems are displayed on the floor within a broken grid. Reflected on its surfaces, a warming light displays the varying intensity of the artist’s voice depicted from logos. The light is activated through the performance That which stays, where the artist reads one of such poems and performs the transduction of his voice into light. In Becoming Tropical, the artists expands the notion of the abyss to that of environmental loss, reenacting a new variation of the manifestos on “Tropical Style” (Araripe Jr) and the “Anthropophagic Manifesto” (Oswald de Andrade).

Acknowledgments

Project initially funded with the support of the Deutscher Künstlerbund in 2021. Exhibition "Halbe Halbe" produced with the support of the Binational Artistic PhD-Program at the HfK Bremen in 2022. Performance at the Royal Conservatoire The Hague supported by the PhDArts program in 2023. Installation and performance at the Art of Research Conference funded by the Leiden University Fund in 2023.