The
Mexican musicians and visual/ video artists together with the Ecuadorian
dancer create an art video through a series of improvisations that
take place in a colonial leather fabric/convent that has remained
in ruins during the last half a century. The site offers outstanding
visuals and sounds that the artists explore through improvisations
listening to the sounds it offers as well as the spaces it provides
for movement. This enabled them to vanish the idea of the traditional
stage and proposed instead a wider concept, in which each movement
and sound becomes a symbiotic part of the whole piece. "Cuando
tu te hayas ido" is the title of a Latin American song that
speaks of shadows that will overcome a lover once the loved one
departs. This vestige of colonial architecture is going to be transformed
into a mall and a deluxe hotel which is the reason why the artists
found it imperative to honor the site by exploring its soul and
spirit.
Cholula
Siglo Veitiúnico
Local experimental musician Gabriel Luna and
visual artist Antonio Alvarez Morán, as well as several others
have gathered to explore alternative music making since 1990. In
1997 Peter Garland, an American composer (greatly supported by John
Cage), and sculptor/musician Sam Lemly, invite the "Poblanos"
to play "matracas" during the International Performance
Festival. The encounter renovated these artists' interest in improvisation-based
experimental music and the search of alternative sources of sound.
The group creates sound and video recordings and also performs live.
They participated in the "Festival Internacional de Arte Sonoro
de 2001" where they played Miguel Hernandez Urban's steel sculptures
under the name of "Los Super Licenciados Inoxidables".
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