This piece slowly expands into a triptych that, through pendulum movements, evokes not only a temporality without beginning or end, but also a state of transition.
This perpetual movement reveals traces of human activity in the form of post-industrial landscapes that did not survive the passage of time, carrying within them the harbinger of a change to come.
A change towards natural horizons that in their opposite rectilinear movements recall the circularity of time, accentuated by the materiality and texture of the rocks that are a symbol of durability and permanence.
The sound, obtained with several oscillators connected to three photoelectric cells, adds very subtle sound transformations, depending on each of these movements.
This device is used here in such a way as not to disturb the fluidity of the images, thus creating a very intricate relationship between what is seen and what is heard.
And little by little that materiality is dissolving, finally becoming air.
Morfologias Fluctuantes was made during a residency at Crater-Lab
Password: h14morfo
year of production: 2024
country of production: Spain
presentation format: live performance
contact & infos : andaber@gmail.com
Crew
Live performance:
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Barbara Ghidini
2x 16mm Projectors, Water, Transparencies -
Antonio Bértolo
2x 16mm Projectors, Image Multipliers, Filters, Prisms, Transparencies
Music composed, performed and recorded:
- Alfredo Costa Monteiro
oscilators, Photoelectric Cellules, Transistor Radios
Production:
- Crater-Lab, Spectral
Barbara Ghidini
Self-taught photographer who works and experiments with different analog formats and photochemical techniques. In her projects she uses the materiality and immateriality of photography, as well as performance to generate sequential images that push her beyond the known, beyond the apparent limits.
Between 2011 and 2016 she was co-founder and coordinator of Taller Milans, in Barcelona, an association that promoted plastic and visual arts. Together with other artists she launched a darkroom project for research and experimentation of historical photographic processes.
www.barbaraghidini.info
Antonio Bértolo
He studied photography at the CEV (Madrid) and film direction at the Center d'Estudis Cinematogràfics de Catalunya. His work has been shown in festivals such as: Official Section of the 14th Bradford Film Festival, Limoges Short Film Festival, 5th edition of the IndieLisboa International Independent Film Festival, 5th Fresh Film Festival, Karlovy Vary International Student Film Festival, Festival Cinespaña de Toulouse, ALCINE38 National Competition, Kinoskop 2020 Award for Best Live Soundtrack, International Portrait Film Festival 2021.
Alfredo Costa Monteiro
Sound artist, composer, improviser and sound poet born in Porto, Portugal. He has lived and worked in Barcelona since 1992, the year in which he graduated in sculpture/multimedia at the School of Fine Arts in Paris.
His installations and sound pieces, all of them lo-fi in nature, have in common an interest in unstable processes, raw materials and conceptual constraints, often of disconcerting simplicity but always with a strong phenomenological aspect. He has collaborated with many musicians, choreographers, video artists and filmmakers and has performed throughout Europe, Canada, the United States, Russia and Japan.
He has an extensive discography on record labels around the world as a solo artist and in different groups.
www.costamonteiro.net
Technical Requirements
IMAGE
- Total Darkness
- 4x 16mm projectors (Preferably Eiki SL) 1x Table 3m long x 1,50m de wide approx.
- 2x microphone stands
SOUND
- P.A. 4 speakers + subwoofer (crossed stereo) XLR connectivity
- 1 table 1m x 1m approx.
