After two months in the extreme isolated region of Sahara desert, Gil Delindro reflects upon the different research projects developed during the Weight of Mountains residency, following fresh approaches but also the practice of the last 4 years in a multidisciplinary work focused on Sound.
This talk incorporates contemporary concepts, but makes also a bridge to ancient folk ideologies practiced by Berber tribes in the region of North Africa, touching concepts such as Animism and its relation to the notion of transfiguration of landscape.
Sound as a continuous collapse of the present in to the past, the immaterial matter, the ultimate proof of our instability - Even the hardest of the stones is otherwise a liquid flexible matter that breaths, resonates, stimulates the air with unique acoustical qualities. How can we perceive this instability? Where is sound existing and what reality of space does it occupy? The edge from were we can converge leads us to variable topics such as transposition, magnetism, electricity, heat, distance and light all incorporated in a notion of a single body that manifests mainly through movement and contamination, constantly feeding itself.
A open gestured question that maps practices between sculpture, installation, media art, performance and Field Recordings in to one subject of research. Sound here is ultimately related to the idea of a variable feeding system in organic matter, proof for the flexibility of the land. To approach such phenomena is also to studie the physical nature of memory, where every matter prolongs itself endlessly in time, constantly reconfigurating its qualities and forms.
This talk incorporates contemporary concepts, but makes also a bridge to ancient folk ideologies practiced by Berber tribes in the region of North Africa, touching concepts such as Animism and its relation to the notion of transfiguration of landscape.
Sound as a continuous collapse of the present in to the past, the immaterial matter, the ultimate proof of our instability - Even the hardest of the stones is otherwise a liquid flexible matter that breaths, resonates, stimulates the air with unique acoustical qualities. How can we perceive this instability? Where is sound existing and what reality of space does it occupy? The edge from were we can converge leads us to variable topics such as transposition, magnetism, electricity, heat, distance and light all incorporated in a notion of a single body that manifests mainly through movement and contamination, constantly feeding itself.
A open gestured question that maps practices between sculpture, installation, media art, performance and Field Recordings in to one subject of research. Sound here is ultimately related to the idea of a variable feeding system in organic matter, proof for the flexibility of the land. To approach such phenomena is also to studie the physical nature of memory, where every matter prolongs itself endlessly in time, constantly reconfigurating its qualities and forms.