you sit and put the headphones.
enjoy the view and listen to the amplified sounds of the surroundings
and to your own small movements.
when you feel ready, listen to how the person before you described the
view you have in front,
then erase the person’s testimony forever.
record your own testimony
then listen to this song
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This is a device where conditions are set to be acted by the spectator.
Spectators are said of performances as well as of exhibitions.
In this present tense of a "show", when looking at a mute landscape, spectators are asked, one by one, to look at "what is there" and "what could have been there".
One by one, each participant listens to the description of the same landscape by the previous person and, as it is passed, spectators are then asked to delete it forever, replacing by their own description.
Spectators are said of performances as well as of exhibitions.
In this present tense of a "show", when looking at a mute landscape, spectators are asked, one by one, to look at "what is there" and "what could have been there".
One by one, each participant listens to the description of the same landscape by the previous person and, as it is passed, spectators are then asked to delete it forever, replacing by their own description.
This is an anti-documentation act, that preserves the momentum of
the act of looking. Each description or story is told only once, to one person
only.
Finally, a song is listened, generating a new layer of perception over the landscape, a new impression.
Through this three steps - listening of a previous description of the place, then one's own description, and a song - the landscape becomes framed and filtered, materializing as an event.
Presence, present, show and tell, theatrum as "the place from where to look", are the performative and theatrical elements of this device.
History as the testimony of what is or could have been, as secrets told from ear to ear by witnesses.
Finally, a song is listened, generating a new layer of perception over the landscape, a new impression.
Through this three steps - listening of a previous description of the place, then one's own description, and a song - the landscape becomes framed and filtered, materializing as an event.
Presence, present, show and tell, theatrum as "the place from where to look", are the performative and theatrical elements of this device.
History as the testimony of what is or could have been, as secrets told from ear to ear by witnesses.
