A performative installation starring voice and language. A twelve person chorus performs fragments of everything we hear and pronounce on any given day. Noise, words, phrases, popular songs and poets are translated into a collective chant in which the interior -the body, individuality, thought, state of being- and the exterior -public space, language, the social being- meet. The work explores where voice and content meet and what separates them, seeking to reveal which are the physical, affective, social and economic qualities of what we enunciate and listen to constantly.
Todo afuera adentro (All outside inside) -excerpts- from Mercedes Azpilicueta on Vimeo.
The exhibition consists of two different moments. On opening and closing day, twelve persons embody a collective voice guided by Azpilicueta who plays the role of a conductor. On those days, Argentine writer and poet Marina Mariasch joined them to make a written record of the performance, creating new versions of what is heard. During the rest of the exhibition, a smaller group perfoms micro versions of the original chant, in a more organic, fragmented and rhythmic way, by improvising over the script and Mariasch´s translations.
Interpreters: Natalia Albero, Jair Almar, Paula Campana Cristal, Liza Casullo, Sol Crespo, Rochi Gallardo, Marina Lazo, Malena Ledesma, Marina Mariasch, Graciela Montoya, Edgar Robba, Liv Schulman and Gabino Torlaschi.
Photos: Ramiro Iturrioz & Laura Insúa