Eva, Bruce and I

THIS IS A SOLO

Eva, Bruce and I

The solo Eva, Bruce and I came from the desire to find a procedure of working with a peer from the field that would not require a presential relatioship and that would allow me to devellop the solo alone in the studio space.

The procedure upon which we based our relation reads as follows:

Based on the same motto given to Ivo of 'Placing, Displacing, Misplacing', Eva would send me by email a WordchoreoGraphy understood as written words displayed in a sheet of paper, upon which I would have two working sessions to work with that material and then write back to Eva a report from which she would write the next page of WordchoreoGraphy. 

 

The procedure would repeat seven times and by the end we were expecting to have two pieces of work, one written and the other movement based.

However, during this process of working alone in the studio space an unforssen phenomenon took place, a channeling process occured while rehearsing the material generated so far. I was channeled by an historical entity, Bruce Nauman, specifically his solo work 'Walking in an Exaggerated Manner around the Perimeter of a Square' from 1967-68.

Having no material proof of the occurance of such event, I can propose here that this channeling can work as a methaphor for the inevitable coexistance with references while working in solo work. In relation to the question 'How can I speak through the other and how can the other speak through what I am proposing?', in this solo I rephrased it as 'How can I speak through Bruce Naumen and how can Bruce Naumen speak through my proposition of invocation of his work at the end of 2011?'

As the initial gesture of the work was dealing with time frames by trying to propose  different or more precisely, non linear relations to given time frames. This proposition intended to propose the ideia of parallel times frames that can at given moments intertwined for rather misterious and non causal reasons.