A series of lecture-performances transmitted «live online» from a cultural landscape emblematic of the city.
Act 1_AN IMAGE OF THE WORLD
Synopsis: A Landscape of events, Bergson, Manuel De Landa, Africa, Klossowski, The Creative Mind
The storyline: In the age of the sonorisation of images and of all audiovisual icons... everything that remains silent is considered to consent. The silence of the image. There is no silence. What happened to the WORLD OF SILENCE? All these images act and react on each other. In a world populated by structures and immersed as we are in this mixture, we can only interact. Then the night came suddenly. The rest of the world was nowhere. Given the real world, we have abolished the apparent world. After noon, everything seems to begin again. Let us be content with what is real.... I call it intuition.
Act 2_A PERCEPTION OF CHANGE
Synopsis: A song, A Living Currency, The Ecstacy of Communication, A requiem for the network, Virilio, The Creative Mind
The storyline: It has been said that it was the gods who first inspired the making of objects. Everything begins with objects, but there is no longer a system of objects. Behind this logic lies the anthropological dream. The parallels are clear. In a world without art, in a world without modesty, with infinite media, you find yourself in the open. But behind the scene it is just a machine pumping out algorithms. It looks at what you see and how you see it, and then feeds you. The world we see is in the process of happening. The point is, ordinarily, we look at change but we don’t perceive it. We talk about change, but we don’t think about it. It is nothing but words, and we reason and philosophise as if change does not exist: it is all veils.... [and] some of them artificial.
Una nota desde Lima,
Portella de Mantet, Pirineus.
El umbral antecede al pórtico, lo contiene, el perfil del territorio marca la distancia, sobrevive ante nuestros ojos, piedra sobre piedra, refugio, fuego, silencio. María de Marías ha regresado, está ante cientos de promontorios, piedras escogidas, hiladas, engarzadas, acomodadas por invisibles hombres y mujeres que esperan cientos, miles de años. María de Marías lee. Sabe que jamás se pudo ir del silencio a la palabra sin abordar el pórtico, en este caso, espacio único, espacio vacío en uno mismo. Es el pasado, es al mismo tiempo el presente. Nunca entre columna y dintel existió semejante conexión, solo presencia, acciones, direcciones, momento del silencio a la palabra, María de Marías lee, todos expectantes miran, contemplan. María de Marías danza, secretos van, secretos vienen, María de Marías lee. Como la palabra, el primer paso antecede al movimiento y este a la acción, cual pentagrama, las palabras dichas, se engarzan con las escuchadas, las sentidas, ahora comprendidas, ahora nuevamente escuchadas, interpretadas, la espera no fue en vano. El Pórtico ilumina el silencio. Todos observan. Una de ellas lee nuevamente, es María de Marías. Son cientos de refugios, uno tras otro, contra el otro, por sobre el otro, miles de años, miles de piedras, en un lindero confesional, frente al territorio demarcado, amplio, vital, libre, María de Marías lee una y otra vez. Todos escuchan, el silencio a lo lejos se acerca. En el umbral María de Marías lee, saben que viene del pasado y va. Piedra sobre piedra, todos esperan y son.
Mario Pozzi-Escot Parodi
AN ENVIRONMENT, A MEDIA, A WORLD : A CERTAIN CONTEMPORANEITY was originally performed «live online» at the Teatre Principal of Terrassa (from Mirador del Turó de Roques Blanques) and at Festival Sismògraf of Olot (from Sant Miquel del Mont) in 2020.
Performance : Maria de Marias
Camera, creation of interludes and livestream transmission : Andrew Colquhoun