A Synesthete’s Atlas: Brejo da Zorra (for François Morellet)

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Excerpted from a 45 minute improvisation between Eric Theise, manipulating digital maps, and Helena Espvall, performing on cello with electronics. The performance took place on 21 April 2022 at Hangar: Centro de Investigação Artística in the Graça district of Lisboa, Portugal.

„Movement“ might suggest a more deliberate compositional structure to the piece but in essence, the visuals traveled to a handful of geographic locations. In this sequence the scene is anchored at Brejo da Zorra, a locality in Portugal I know little about. During my residency at Hangar I took a few days to travel to Nice for the Daniel Spoerri retrospective, The Theater of Objects, and my return flight passed over the area as we descended to Humberto Delgado Airport. Following the flight using an offline map application, I was reminded by the grid, a mix of rectilinear and organic lines, of François Morellet’s Trames 3°, 87°, 93°, 183° (Grids 3°, 87°, 93°, 183°), which Dia:Chelsea wore on her western wall in 2017–18.

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