Marc Vives: SSSSS
Performance. Running time: 45 min.
In 2018, Marc Vives decided to adopt the routine of swimming from La Barceloneta Beach to align himself with Montjuïc Mountain and try to communicate with it. This exercise resulted in a series of performative works, photographs, drawings, videos and audio pieces. In the video SSSSS (initials for sand, sea, sun, sex and sangria), Vives swims along the Costa Brava, with a camera attached to his head, to create a disconcerting and fragmentary experience of a more or less familiar coastal landscape including wild beauty and man-made eyesores. 'SSSSS consists of a series of voice exercises based on my experience of "singing" to the landscape from the sea, and drawing this liquid quality into the structures around us in order to repoliticise them in a relational sense. To cause a substantial dramatic change, of the human loss of the land, of firm foundations, of balance, of the mainland's point of view. This work in progress poses a parallel between the mouth and the scenic space in which it is located, transforming itself each time, as the sounds emitted come from both inside and outside the body'.
Marc Vives Muñoz (1978, Barcelona, Spain) sings and swims between the performing and visual arts. He works with the materiality of the voice in its sculptural potential with the aim of infiltrating architectures, landscapes and other bodies and reformulating an established order. He focuses on traditions and the forms of collective expression. He is not only devoted to the artistic work, but also to pedagogy, curatorship or management, thus seeking to collectively transform the contextual model.
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