Natalia Blanch

28 February-3 May 2003

L'artiste portatif

Group exhibition curated by Daniela Franco
Performance on 6 March 2003
Institut culturel du Mexique, Paris, France

h (de hombre, de silla), digital video 4'37'', 2003

The exhibition L'artiste portatif (The Portable Artist) was curated by Daniela Franco. The title and part of the developed concepts of the show were inspired from the book A Brief history of Portable Literature by Enrique Vila-Matas.

The piece is a video, its sound, sound track by Andrés Oddone, and a poem by Guillermo Daghero. The video shows a man talking to himself at a coffee table. The poem is a possible man's monologue. Both poem and sound were created from the images of the video.

« h (de hombre, de silla)

el otro no duerme
el otro es un pájaro

1 = habla
1 = caja de resonancia

1 igual
el otro      →      →      →      →      →      →

(1 dormiría mucho
mucho más tranquilo si los animales hablaran
de todas esas cosas que escuchan de los hombres
o si los pájaros fueran traducibles
en el momento mismo de la ventana que da al árbol
en la tormenta
digo más tranquilo si todos
todos volvemos a casa a regar las flores)

1 = otro”

Guillermo Daghero

The performance is about the word “solitude” in several languages, by Natalia Blanch and Wilson Díaz. Wilson Díaz phoned from Calli Valle, Colombia, 1pm, Natalia Blanch at the Institut culturel du Mexique, Paris, France, 7pm, on 6 March 2003.

Description of the performance:
— Wilson and Natalia selected words.
— Natalia wrote the words with pancake dough and cooked them.
— In the gallery the visitors choose a word(s) and ate them.
— At one moment, Wilson called by phone and read forty questions in Spanish, his voice was amplified.
— A simultaneous interpreter repeated the questions in French.

→  PDF Preguntas de Wilson Díaz, La palabra soledad en varios idiomas, performance 6 de marzo 2003

→  PDF Guillermo Daghero's poem h (for man, for chair)

→  PDF Poème h (d'homme, de chaise) de Guillermo Daghero