Primal Light residencies are part of SPECTRAL project. Dedicated to artistic production within E.C.A. — Expanded Cinematic Art —, artists are challenged to interpret the environment as a source of primal light, time and motion. For the Spring residency of 2024, Laia co-op has invited artist Gaëlle Rouard, who will be at Laboratório da Torre, in Porto, developing her performative film work. This residency happens in two moments, having its first part in April ‘24 and a second moment in June ‘24. It culminates in a public screening-performance of “Beira Douro”, a work created and developed under Primal Light residency.
"In the air that shines and in the wind that passes, a river thicker than a grassy prairie, A trembling river like a flame. The Douro, full of shadow and fires, of silence and rales, loses its waters in the vast bosom of the seas. Where are they, the waves embraced by light, drowned in black waters?
And what soul should one wear without stars?"
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ECA performance by Gaelle Rouard, resulting from the residency PRIMAL LIGHT #4 at TORRE (Porto, Portugal). June 2024
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Video by Miguel Tavares
Year of production: 2014
