Posts by Josep Carles Laínez

Unlike my other actions, of a much more static nature, Iter has a clear processional content. In it, the sound acquires great importance in its form and structure. The development of the action was to procession around the location of the first wall – Roman Republican – of Valencia, from 138 BCE. The two participants…

Over three days, I developed this performance in six churches or chapels of the six historical parishes of the Principality of Andorra (Andorra la Vella, Canillo, Encamp, La Massana, Ordino, and Sant Julià de Lòria). It is an elaboration of Requerimiento: I took a photograph of the skies at that moment, lit a match, and…

Also performed on the beach of Vera (Almería), it lasted for more than an hour and a half. It was a ritual to the Sun, during which, at different moments separating chants towards the waters, I lit and raised a countless number of matches that I was introducing into the sand. The photographs are by…

Performed at El Playazo de Vera (Almería), this performance was a rite in homage to the ancient Phoenician gods. With deeply primitivist instrumentation (triangle, water stick, and stones), the vocal part is much more lyrical, although it ends in silence and a word fading in the sand. The photographs are by Rosa María Rodríguez Magda.…

Performed at the initial cross of the Camino de Santiago, in Roncesvalles (Navarra). On the last day of 2002, I visited the Akelarre meadow and the witches’ cave of Zugarramurdi, where I took a stone that I kept attached to my body throughout the day. At night, I carried out a small rite at the…

The same midnight of Memorial, but already in my home in Valencia, I carried out this solo performance, which consisted of mentally reconstructing the space of that first action, empty at that moment of human beings, in solitude generating meaning. Memorial II (2001)