© Jean-Luc Godard De l'origine du XXIe siècle / Origins of the 21st Century (2000) Digital video, color, 16'. Courtesy ECM
POW!
A performance by Mercedes Azpilicueta in form of a declamation composed out of passionate football reporter Omar Bentancor announcing the goal of Chuco Sosa playing in Argentinos Juniors against San Lorenzo, a detailed description of an outspoken performance on administrative detention by a young artist, calm and irritating intonations in the voices of two yoga instructors, recollections of a control-freak demanding mother, and the fierce struggle between superheroes Captain America and The Invisible Woman, a story outsourced from a conversation with a kid. Together with the use of parataxis, visual mnemonics and the voice, this performance will be delivered in an attempt to orally evoke what could also be rendered as an excessive sign of force within our common everyday spoken language.
POW! is part of It Makes us Think of a Dance and a Fête as Much as of War (On Violence); the third and final part of Artistic Justice: Positions on the Place of Justice in Art, a series of three international symposia leading towards the EVA International 2014 that opens in Limerick in April. This symposium is conceived by Doreen Mende at the invitation of EVA 2014 curator, Bassam El Baroni.
POW! is part of It Makes us Think of a Dance and a Fête as Much as of War (On Violence); the third and final part of Artistic Justice: Positions on the Place of Justice in Art, a series of three international symposia leading towards the EVA International 2014 that opens in Limerick in April. This symposium is conceived by Doreen Mende at the invitation of EVA 2014 curator, Bassam El Baroni.
Contributors include: Mercedes Azpilicueta, Yasmine Eid-Sabbagh, Denise Ferreira da Silva, Hadrien Laroche, Paulo Tavares, Milica Tomić. Screening by Jean-Luc Godard. Conceived by Doreen Mende.
Saturday 22 March 2014, 12.00–19.00
IMMA - Irish Museum of Modern Art, DublinFor further information please see www.eva.ie/alf-dublin
© Deirdre Power
POW! (excerpts) from Mercedes Azpilicueta on Vimeo.