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Sopor Solo Exhibition Galería Mite, Buenos Aires, Argentina October 2011 The project aimed to provoke a strained and complex relation between a previous experience and it translation to artworks. The experience was a field trip to a cave in the province of La Rioja. Guided by the famous French espeleologist –Michel Siffre- the group accessed to a non photic zone inside the cave and stayed there for three weeks without seeing the sun, a clock or a calendar, seeking to have a chronobiological group experience (or an experience beyond time). For the exhibition and after the experience, we decided to create works without direct references to the adventure, avoiding documentation and building new pieces from scratch, seeking the tension between the radical body and mind experience and the deceptive, disappointing, fragile and cold object. We wanted to come up with a hybrid genre of artifact, an object-crutch in which we could support ourselves to produce a new gesture: a guided tour performance where the different members of Rosa Chancho would recreate the experience in different subjective narrations, departing from the same object. The different objects were functional to the storytelling in two aspects:On one hand, they built a linear narrative. Firstly, the spectator was confronted with a picture made by books; our research –previous to the experience- on Siffre’s chronobiological experiments, different utopian cities, rituals, time and radical exercises for body and mind, references from contemporary art and pop culture. The following objects narrated the experience inside the cave. A sculptural maquette of a rock made with papier mache that had a small hold where the group defecated (a natural tube of air that jointed two rooms of the cave and provoked air suction). And a text that reported on the experience inside the cave through a particular system that organized the group biological time. Finally, the spectator encountered two objects that were potential devices to reconstruct the story after the experience. A sculpture that worked, at the same time, as a podium for conferences and a powerpoint projector, and a blackboard that allowed the group to draw in real time during the guided tours. On the other hand, each object represented a different narrative exploration: the commodification of a research process, the sculpture of papier mache as a Science Museum’s diorama, the writing text as a traveller short-story between facts and fiction, the conference with its powerpoint and blackboard. Each object had a hybrid nature between an art piece for a commercial gallery and the device or machine to produce knowledge. |
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