AFTER THE FALL - INSTINCTIVE ALMOST ANIMAL ACTION WILL SAVE US FROM THE VOID
2015

Performed at:
“you have got my bone” exhibition
Old Foyles Bookstore, London
April 2015


Performers:

Voice - Zafaran Landers 
Voice - Eliza Legzdina 
Voice - Sara Rodrigues 
Violin - Elizabeth Wilson 
Viola - Tom Oscar Moore 
Cello - Tom Pickles 




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 combinationsbetween 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.

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