A scenic sound work by Marcelo Expósito, 125 minutes, 2020.
October 21th 7 pm.
Marcelo Expósito's work The Germinal Pandemic. A Global Elegy in Quarantine is a sound piece based on a series of remote conversations recorded by the artist during the lockdown in 2020. The dialogues with Franco Bifo Berardi, Manuel Borja-Villel, Nelly Richard, Ana Longoni, Yanis Varoufakis, Suely Rolnik, Daniela Ortiz, Helena Maleno and others, take shape through audio-verité, musique concrète and electronic experimentation. Their voices create a polyphonic chorus, assembled with other sound elements: recordings of theatrical voices, readings of literary quotes, essay fragments written specifically for this work, and documentary sound material recorded in real time during the pandemic. This “global elegy” is based on three historical works: Glenn Gould's radio programmes The Solitude Trilogy (1967-1977), in which he developed his contrapuntal method of editing voices inspired by Bach; Blue (1993), the film made by Derek Jarman on the eve of his death; and L'homme atlantique (1981), Marguerite Duras' literary-theatrical-poetic-cinematographic work on the feeling of loss for the absence of bodies.
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Photo: Andrés Garachana Chinowski
