Palavra à deriva

Transmedia research project

Artworks

Title: Pela terceira margem (2023)
Format: transmedia performance and installation, 1 channel sound, 1x1x1m
Materials: text, voice, transducers, laser light, metal parts, cables, silicon

Title: Variantology of a Distance (2024)
Format: transmedia text publication
Materials: sound documentation, poem, photo, text

Title: A onça que sondava voz (2024)
Format: transmedia installation, 4 channels sound, 1x2x1m
Materials: sound, transducers, laser light, metal parts, cables, silicon

Title: Amanhã (2024)
Format: transmedia installation, 1 channel sound, 1x1x2m, variable distance
Materials: word, voice, transducers, laser light, metal parts, cables

Short Description

Palavra à deriva (“word adrift”) investigates interstitial spaces as thresholds for site-specific translations. Reiterating on the transduction of voice to light to sound, each gestures attempts to evidence the transformation of meaning that occurs when crossing a distance.

Pela terceira margem ("through the third margin") was developed specifically for the river Weser at the opposite side of GAK Bremen. In the performance, the artist stands at the opposite side of the river reciting a text that crosses the river as light and is translated back as sound inside the gallery space, evidencing what gets lost and transformed in-between.

Variantology of a distance is a text written in mise-en-abyme, operating both as the documentation of an artwork and an artwork in itself: a poetic fiction that runs through the manifold positionalities of an artist in translation.

A onça que sondava voz (“the jaguar that probed voice”) was born out of one of the poetic variations of the previous text. In it, a sound recording of the artist’s voice was stretched to different lengths to uncover hidden truths about a document in translation: a jaguar from the artist’s past, crossing through the distance of memory.

O Amanhã (“the tomorrow”) was a site-specific installation between two balconies of Palazzo Mora during the Personal Structures Biennial in Venice 2024. In the installation, the artist’s voice speaking the word amanhã was stretched to the length of the Earth’s day (23º 56’) . Transduced between the two balconies in a feedback loop, the soundscape transforms daily in translation between the two sites, evidencing the shift to tomorrow.