systematic illusion:
The Subtle Technique
in an Earthquake Detector
Construction
2011
Live audiovisual performance with visual captures from Cornwall and Portugal and sound constructed with words. A poetic understanding of landscape, place and identity.
The second event of the series with the name of Systematic Illusion - The Subtle Technique in an Earthquake Detector Construction - has as themes the visible and the invisible within layers of processes.
Systematic Illusion as series of performances that take identity and self representation, recurrent themes in the work of Ana Carvalho, into a realm between real and fictional. The bridge is visual, through symbolic representation of objects together with the ritualistic movements of the hands that refer to the magician and the making of an illusion.
Through its aesthetical and conceptual themes the spectator will findconnections to previous performances by Ana Carvalho and Magenta Interior. The creative and reflective process explores references to an exterior world, in a sort of “family album” of textual and visual resources. This is an album made of affinities with other authors (musicians, poets, film directors, etc) and favorite sentences caught by change and re-presented, translated and re-created for this work.
Systematic illusion is full of audio and visual colorful intimacy.
The performance was first presented at The Exchange - Penzance, 14th October 2011 as part fo the Decalcomania Project.
Book, set of six photographs, dress and A/V performance.
Texts, images and voice by Ana Carvalho
Sound engineering: Marc Behrens
Appearences:
Joana Machado
Laura Smith
Maria Christoforidou
Marc Behrens
Locations:
Rose garden, Palácio de Cristal, Porto, Portugal
Gardens of Casa Tait, Porto, Portugal
Maenporth beach, Cornwall, UK
Durgan beach, Cornwall, UK
Thank you to:
Halogénio Audiovisuais