SPIRIT IS A BOOK

'If I would find myself without words, my first attempt will be to dance. Then, I guess I would try to invent new words, but no one would understand me. At that point, I would start stealing other people's words and probably would end up imitating the birds'
Yoru No Hara

A room full of books of ideas from different times and cultures. An erratic, hazardous and contextless reading put together the dead and the alive in an improvised dialogue that creates constant relations with our present. While the reading occurs, a read-made-editor transcripts live what she hears, erasing and adding her own ideas and putting them in relation with the current broadcast and her own history and memory. If the spirit is a book, then it's a collective and an anacronic one. And has the voice of the present.

This work was part of the Performance Biennale BP. 17 and was performed at Urquiza art gallery in 2017

INFO

Idea and direction: Barbara Hang y Agustina Muñoz
Curator: Mercedes Urquiza
Performers: Alina Marinelli, Cynthia Edul, Agustina Muñoz y Barbara Hang
Music: Agustín Srabstein
Design: Leandro Chiappa