Videos
2000-01
Untitled (Notion of Sacrifice)
Performance 2005
Siete enfants terribles, Centro Cultural España Córdoba, Córdoba, Argentina
Performance 2001
Critics' Residency Program, Maryland Art Place (Map), Baltimore, USA
→ www.mdartplace.org
Untitled (Notion of Sacrifice), digital video 4'52", 2000-01
This multimedia project was realised at the Takoma Park, Maryland, USA, in 2000-01.
Untitled (Notion of Sacrifice) comprises photographs, a video and a CD-ROM documenting a performance that consisted of writings on my body. I made this performance twice. The first time was in 8 October 2000, the night of Yom Kippur. The texts I wrote were passages and prayers used for Yom Kippur from the Machzor, a Jewish prayer book. Another person took photographs and filmed the first performance. The second time I performed the action was in order to make a more subjective documentation of it. I recorded the performance with a quick cam attached to my forehead. Then the image filmed and photographed is the partial image of the book and my body.
In this work not only the idea of sacrifice is fundamental (as an offering), but the idea of parallelism between written text and sound. Written text is on the exterior of my body, while sound is on its interior. The written words are the body of sounds, written on my body. The idea was to symbolically annul my body to convert it to the body of word/sound. Therefore the ultimate idea was the dissolution of myself to become sound.
