Summer walks

St Yrieix la Perche
07/08/2009
Two video performances

 

In English a ballad is a song – une ballade in French is both a walk and a song

- Every footprint is a song...the song of life...painted on the sand...painted in air…
(Nanao Sakaki 1976)

These two single take video performances uses the voice, drawing/writing and live electronics to explore one of life most defining gesture, walking, understood here as a simultaneous act of writing and reading (space). Each step reads the ground and leaves a trace.

They were performed and shot in my studio on two consecutive summer days, while listening to the radio.

 

A summer walk
Video performance – Single screen projection, looped – 3.33mins

 

A summer walk (too)
Video performance – Single screen projection, looped – 4.17mins

 

VALTER performance system (Max MSP) designed for my particular ways with voice and spoken words is programmed by Sebastian Lexer, with financial support from Arts Council London and UCA research Fund.