AFTER THE FALL
25th April 2015
Old Foyles Bookstore, Charing Cross Road, London
|
"After the Fall - instinctive, almost animal action
will save us from the void" by Sara Rodrigues Performed as part of the exhibition 'You Have Got My Bone' curated by Pascal Colman Zafaran Landers (voice) Eliza Legzdina (voice) Sara Rodrigues (voice) Lizzy Wilson (violin) Tom Oscar Moore (viola) Tom Pickles (cello) The piece is based on the American Abstract Expressionists, more specifically Jackson Pollock and his action painting, from where the title’s quote comes from. Three texts were selected from the critic Harold Rosenberg, attaining to a certain utopia or modernist dream, and written on a canvas to be read as paint is being thrown at it. As it gradually gets covered, fewer words appear visible and the text begins to disintegrate. Starting with a cacophony of phrases, these slowly get fragmented lending the three singers to create various word combinations between them. The string players, attaining to the colour, brush and area of the canvas being stroke by paint, also evolve their playing through time by the length of the notes played. Starting with a more pointillist method, towards the end the notes are sustained until the next is played,creating an orchestral effect. The piece finishes with a silent and esthetical covered up canvas. |
|