Posts Tagged ‘2002’
Umbræ
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.…
Read MoreTrànsits (self-portraits)
Trànsits [Tránsitos] emerged on a car trip between Salamanca and the city of Valencia. The driver who was taking us back to the Mediterranean had to make the mandatory stop, and while Rosa María was having breakfast, I stayed inside the vehicle. I was interested in exploring the journey in two ways: on the one…
Read MoreRequerimiento
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…
Read MoreEl naixement de la platja (land art)
El naixement de la platja [El nacimiento de la playa] is the “catalog” of a small installation carried out on a beach near Valencia in March 2002. I copy a fragment of the note that accompanies the photographs: “without realizing it, I began to trace, among rotten oranges, among pieces of nets, among stones and…
Read MoreLo mejor está por llegar
The Best is Yet to Come, by the director, writer, and performer Annie Sprinkle, belongs to my time of wine and roses. It is not a book, but a pamphlet where we collected an article by the North American. It was designed with humor and grace by Victor Devicienti. Annie Sprinkle, Lo mejor está por…
Read MoreUna noche más
Una noche más is also a post-apocalyptic story in which I wanted to explore how a homosexual relationship would take place when there was nothing left to dream about. The characters are two boys who do not know if they are waiting for something, and they give themselves to the flesh and to a sentimental…
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