‘A scenario for three circumstances: A, B, C’
DATE: 2011
MEDIA: Objects-sculpture and sound-composition.
This commission for the Museum of Modern Art in Medellin works with object, sound and spectatorship to construct a sculptural ‘scenario’ for three ‘circumstances’. A ‘scenario’ is a sequence of events or a setting; a ‘circumstance’ is a condition or situation within which an event takes place.
‘A scenario for three circumstances: A, B, C’ consists of three parts: a fragmented object-sculpture, a sound-composition and a setting for spectatorship.
‘Circumstance A’ is a single sculpture fragmented into seven parts. When complete, the sculpture is a perfect concrete square, just too high be seen over. The geometric form is constructed from seven parts, each sitting on castors, divided following the arrangement of a tangram dissection puzzle.
‘Circumstance B’ is a sound composition that fills the exhibition space, moving through the dissected sculpture. The sound emits from seven megaphones distributed through the space at varying heights. Composed in collaboration with Saul Giner, this sound-collage of gunshots recorded at a shooting school and air travelling through a trumpet is arranged in ‘melisima’, a progression of single notes using silence and repetition.
‘Circumstance C’ is a viewing platform for the audience: a single segment of stadium seating, the type used for viewing sports events or other spectator events. This raised tier of seats faces the object and sound sources of this sculpture in an invitation to take an objective position in relation to the sculptural composition.
Presented at:
Museum of Modern Art Medellin, Colombia, 2011
