AI! (an interjection as relational form /research project) - Work Space Brussels

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  ai! by lilia mestre & marcos simões - WTP#03- dec 2011 © giannina urmeneta
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  ai! by lilia mestre & marcos simões - WTP#03- dec 2011 © giannina urmeneta
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  ai! by lilia mestre & marcos simões - WTP#03- dec 2011 © giannina urmeneta
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  ai! by lilia mestre & marcos simões - WTP#03- dec 2011 © giannina urmeneta
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  ai! by lilia mestre & marcos simões - WTP#03- dec 2011 © giannina urmeneta
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  ai! by lilia mestre & marcos simões - WTP#03- dec 2011 © giannina urmeneta
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  ai! by lilia mestre & marcos simões - WTP#03- dec 2011 © giannina urmeneta
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  ai! by lilia mestre & marcos simões - WTP#03- dec 2011 © giannina urmeneta
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  ai! by lilia mestre & marcos simões - WTP#03- dec 2011 © giannina urmeneta
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  ai! by lilia mestre & marcos simões - WTP#03- dec 2011 © giannina urmeneta

AI! (an interjection as relational form /research project)

LILIA MESTRE & MARCOS SIMÕES

Outline

Ai! is a Portuguese interjection and onomatopoeia used to express a wide range of human emotions and reactions such as complaint, pain, relief, surprise, excitement, disapproval and loss. It is also holophrastic, inasmuch as it consists of a complex idea expressed in a single sound.

Playing with the Ai! as a vocal source of limitation drives the body to search through exaggeration or theatricality towards forms of expressing its own possibilities. When the sound of Ai! takes control of the body, it becomes material, becomes in itself plastic, artificial and theatrical.

Ai! is a call for attention. It is a siren! It frames something that’s happening or is about to happen. The Ai! is like the punch line of a joke, the element that turns things upside down and permits us to find another logic of understanding. The Body that ejects the Ai! is a body affected by an external force (visible or invisible) that cannot be controlled.

In this research project Lilia Mestre and Marcos Simoes want to see if through the Ai! they can discover something else, something strange and yet known: an alien element introduced by a recognizable sound, the Ai! as a familiar tool to create the unfamiliar. Ai! can take on many forms, be many things and become many spaces.

In Ai! Mestre and Simoes develop a physical practice that brings a body charged with a strong sense of catastrophe to the fore. Mestre and Simoes want to observe a body affected by an outside force that gives the impression of being incapable of controlling this force — a body that exists in an illogical space, in paradoxes and incongruities.

The body in a space that is ‘out of tune’.
 

Credits

• Concept & creation Lilia Mestre & Marcos Simoes
• Video: Marcelo Mardones
• Muziek: Christophe Albertijn
• Productie: Mokum
• Met de steun van: Bains Connective, Kc Monty, workspacebrussels
• Met de steun van: de Vlaamse Gemeenschap

WSB Connected artists

MARCOS SIMÕES

DATES

Date15/12/2011 / Kaaistudio's

Date05/12/2011 - 09/12/2011 / Les Brigittines

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