Project

2007. Dora García. PRAYERS (theoretical data)

 The “rezos” project is a performance that lasts twenty four hours and is collected in a sound piece that has been presented as a video and audio installation, as well as an Internet website.

THE PERFORMANCE

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For twenty four hours, thirty performers that take turns every 4 hours, each one of them in five specific locations of the city, both fixed (squares, streets, crossroads, bars) and mobile (buses, metro, pedestrian), continuously describe everything they see and hear in the place and moment where they’re at, and this constant description, recited as a prayer, is individually recorded by each performer.

 

RECORDING THE PERFORMANCE

Each performer will have a sound recording device, the type that fits the situation best, the time, sound quality and comfort of the performer.

 

CONSTRUCTION AND PRESENTATION OF THE SOUND PIECE

The recordings made by performers will be added, in a few hours, to a previously designed flash animation, creating an interface that enables the spectator, Internet user or visitor to combine the recordings of each performance at will and create a kind of “polyphonic prayer” that reflects the “kaleidoscopic” complexity of the different places in which the performances were done, a complexity that performers try to describe, but they could have tried to create (according to the idea that a reality is created once we perceive it and describe it, or, as we could say, “recite” it).

This interface can be presented as an exhibition mode (audio and video installation in the exhibition hall), but also, and in any case, in a website that may be checked in any Internet computer.

 

 



 

 

 

 

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