Natalia Carminati and Josecarlos Flórez. ‘Sand Walk’
Saturday 12 November 2022, 7:30 — 9:30 pm
- Artists
- Natalia Carminati and Josecarlos Flórez
- Participants
- Alexandra Laudo
- Venue
- CASA SEAT
- Price
- Free admission
- Tickets & register
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Sand Walk is a sonorous performance that investigates our perception of time. One of the main axes of exploration of the project is to investigate the notion of “real time” and the duration of a present instance interfering reality and virtuality.
Based on Bergson’s theory of time and freely inspired by the work Water Walk (John Cage, 1960), the performance concentrates all its force of action in a challenging 3-minute-score of 64 events. The start of each action is controlled by the use of a stopwatch. However, the sounds produced will become unpredictable durations creating a random and unique composition that integrates the sounds of the environment, instances of silence and the spontaneous sounds of the audience.
Using different languages and technological devices, Sand Walk tries to explore the nature of time: its anatomy, synchronicity, simultaneity, and its flow. According to Terence McKenna’s Time Wave theory, time is not linear, but there are continuous ingressions of time in time. Can we introduce other present instances to our present? Can we use images to measure time? Or sounds to control it? What is the “real time” of Sand Walk?
This project addresses these questions through an experimental performative score that will result in a live visual and sound composition in which the audience co-creates the final recording that will be shared with them.
Alexandra Laudo
- Curator, Moderator, Participant
Barcelona
Alexandra Laudo [Heroínas de la Cultura] is an independent curator based in Barcelona.
She has recently curated the exhibition series The possibility of an island at Espai 13, Fundació Miró, the collective show A certain darkness at CaixaForum, with works of the collections of Fundació “la Caixa” and MACBA (on view until January 2019), and has co-curated the site-specific program Composicions for the Barcelona Gallery Weekend. In 2015-2016 she was one of the participants in the curatorial research program CuratorLab (Kontsfack, Stockholm), where she developed An intellectual history of the clock, a performative curatorial project which has been presented at Malongen – Nordiska Konstförbundet (Stockholm), Timelab (Ghant), L’Iselp (Brussels), HalfHouse (Barcelona), Ciało i Umysł (Warsaw), andriesse eyck galerie(Amsterdam), and Collective (Edinburgh). Laudo has received different curatorial awards and research grants, such as the Terrassa Comissariat Award, the BCN Producció Comissariat award, the grant for Training and Improvement in the fields of art, philosophy and new creativity, the curatorial award Comisart, by Fundació “la Caixa”, and very recently, the GAC Curatorship Award. She writes regularly about art and contemporary culture for B-guided and for the critical platform A-Desk, has been editor and author of various books, and has contributed essays and critical texts to different publications.
Last update: November 11th, 2019
Natalia Carminati
- Participant
1982, Buenos Aires
Natalia Carminati is a visual artist and researcher. Her research is mostly focused on the critical study of contemporary culture, post-colonial theory, biotechnology, and food sovereignty. Her projects take the form of multi-sensory devices that combine video, video games, sound experiments, painting, installations, or performance. She has been awarded scholarships from the Catalan Regional Government, La Escocesa and the Centre Arts Santa Mònica. She has participated in individual and collective exhibitions and performances at the MACBA (Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art), the Museu Picasso Barcelona, Arts Santa Mònica, Born Centro de Cultura y Memoria, L’Estruch (Sabadell), Fabra i Coats, Centro Cultural Las Cigarreras (Alicante), Konvent Zero (Berga), Casa de la Cultura Sant Cugat del Vallès, SWAB Barcelona Art Fair, LOOP Barcelona, GREC Festival, Salmon Festival, Tangent Projects, Ostavinska Galerija (Belgrade) and Kunstmuseum Stuttgart (Germany), among others. She is currently working as a resident artist at La Escocesa and Centre d’Arts Santa Mònica.
Last update 5th November 2021
Josecarlos Flórez
Josecarlos Flórez, is a Peruvian new media artist and independent researcher, who lives and works in Barcelona. His research area focuses on the fusion of art and open source technologies. He works on projects involving creative programming, sound, robotics, expressive lighting, generative visuals, data visualization, digital manufacturing, IoT (internet of things), VR (virtual reality) and AR (augmented reality), and AI (artificial intelligence). ).
His work has been exhibited in Peru, Europe and the United States. He has participated in art fairs such as ARCO (Madrid) and Swab Art Fair (Barcelona) and in festivals such as Sonar + D (Barcelona) and ARS ELECTRONICA (Linz). In 2022 he was awarded the Artistic Production Scholarship awarded by ISEA 2022 (International Symposium on Electronic Art), and his work became part of the Beep Collection (NewArt Foundation).
