FLUCTUATIONS: MISSA PRO DEFUNCTIS
​​collaboration with Rodrigo B. Camacho
2018

performance commissioned
by Sismógrafo for
Não é Ainda o Mar
curated by Óscar Faria
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programmed as part of
Fórum Internacional 
Gaia Todo Um Mundo
Gaia, Portugal
29 - 30 September 2018 

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Sound installation and
durational performance (3 hours) by
Sara Rodrigues and
Rodrigo B. Camacho

​Durational performance:
In Corpus Christi Covent, two figures collect samples of the various living species that they find in the interior garden; equipped with protective suits, gloves, gas masks, dissection kits, pipettes and coverslips. As time passes, the treatment of the living tissues establish a trilogy between the water from the drying pond, the dead tree trunk and the statue of a praying saint.  The residue of the performance consists of a collection of 162 coverslips, preserving the living remains of a world in sudden change.  

Sound installation:
The Communio and Requiem sections of the Missa pro Defunctis (1621), by Duarte Lobo, have been extended in time to last 30 min. (on loop). The original text of the mass has been substituted by the scientific latin names of the species who's origin took place somewhere between the 50 million years that separate the Paleocene from the Pleistocene period. The female voices (Sara) sing the appearance of 200 new species, while the male voices (Rodrigo) sing the extinction of the same 200 species during the Holocene (specially during the most recent 10 thousand years [0.01 million years of the history of planet earth])


























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