3 METERS, 6 MINUTES,
12 WAYS TO LISTEN
TO WHITE SOUNDS
— 2005
Sound art performance and installation. Performed and exhibited in Bergün, Switzerland.
In August 2005 I took part in the EASA (European Architecture Students Assembly) held in Bergün, Switzerland. It was my first encounter with the Alps. My mind was full of great skies, enormous mountains, flowers, unknown geography and the colour white: white clouds, white petals, white snow, white stones. During my stay, I conceived and realized this performance, using objects found in an old suitcase to narrate how/what I felt at the moment.
There is a big flowery coverlet suspended, paper flowers cutted from maps and newspapers, a 3 meter long tape measure and a musical instrument of 12 glass bottles filled with white material such as liquid glue, flour, latex, milk and plaster. And there is me, sitting in the middle of the tridimensional and musical composition, as a white mountain, playing for 6 minutes with a teaspoon.
A 3" video (black) CD-R, documenting the performance, was released in 2007 in a limited edition of 50 numbered copies, with four different covers on the label This is it, forever. A few copies are still available, contact me me if interested — price is 6 EUR postpaid worldwide.
Selected works that fascinated me while I was thinking about this project:
— Emma Dexter, Ben Borthwick, The Unilever Series: Bruce Nauman – Raw Materials, London, Tate Modern, 2004.
— Aldo Rossi, Autobiografia scientifica, Parma, Pratiche, 1990.
— Ivanka Stoianova, Luciano Berio. Chemins en musique, La Revue Musicale – triple numéro: 375-376-377, Paris, Richard- Masse, 1985
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