Molto Vivace – Experimental Poetry
- Date
- 3 May 2014
negra 40 and the Club del Dibujo present
Molto Vivace
Experimental poetry Concert
“Chaos is simply an order that you cannot recognize” — Henri Bergson
Gastón Mazières Jorge Ihlenfeld Martín Virgili
Works by: Josef Anton Riedl (Optisches Lautgedicht), John Cage, Bob Cobbing, Guillermo Lema, Gastón Mazières, Martín Virgili
Saturday, May 3, 2014, 8:30 pm Centro Cultural Villa Victoria Matheu 1851, Mar del Plata, Argentina www.clubdeldibujo.com
“It’s important to begin listening, because only if we rediscover our surroundings through creativity can we rethink them.” — Ana María Estrada
Experimental poetry
Experimental poetry opens new possibilities for listening and develops new sonic poetics that combine art and advanced technology together with the most primal, ritual actions of the body and the senses.
Where does the poem begin, and where the music? What are the borders, ruptures, and semantic transformations between the two languages? In poetry, the voice has always been a fundamental instrument for reading aloud: poetry as song.
In contemporary and experimental poetry, the voice is not only the linguistic vehicle that conveys the poem, but also a rhythm born of the body, one that shapes meaning through intonation, bodily gesture, guttural sounds, and the properties of the voice as a material that resonates within a given space.
What a performance piece reveals to us is something more than a sum of poetry and music, or of poetry and visual art; it is a particular kind of tension between distinct perceptual dimensions. Contemporary art and poetry come together to create interdisciplinary pieces that make sparing use of both process and words alike, disintegrating meanings in search of a possibility of liberation: letting words be what they do.
Sabrina Salomón, 2014.
Martín Virgili
Composer, guitarist, teacher, and arts researcher. He has received grants from the Université de Paris 1 (Panthéon-Sorbonne), the University of Helsinki, the National Endowment for the Arts of Argentina, the Telefónica Foundation of Argentina, and the CCEBA. He has been invited to give workshops on experimental music by the Academia Superior de Artes in Bogotá, the National Center for the Arts in Mexico, and Duke University in the USA, among other institutions. His works have been presented across the Americas and Europe. He directed the documentary Desde las Montañas (on contemporary music in Bogotá), co-created the Experimental Lutherie Workshop of Mar del Plata, is a member of Ensamble Orquesta Negra (with Guillermo Bocanegra and Gastón Mazières) and of the duo Vita Nova (with Jorge Ihlenfeld), a founding partner of the venue negracuarenta, and director of the Orquesta Inestable of the Club del Dibujo. He currently lives and works in Mar del Plata and Buenos Aires.
Gastón Mazières (special guest)
A Professor of Letters graduated from the Universidad de Buenos Aires (UBA), an actor trained at the Escuela Municipal de Arte Dramático de Buenos Aires (EMAD), a playwright, and a theater director. As a playwright his work has premiered with various companies in venues across Argentina, Chile, Uruguay, Brazil, Venezuela, the United States, Denmark, Spain, and Italy. He is co-director of the theater production company La Cósmica, based in Buenos Aires, Argentina. As a performer he has worked in numerous productions of music, theater, film, and contemporary dance around the world. As a teacher he lectures on Research Methodology in the Performing Arts at the Universidad del Salvador in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and also teaches acting and playwriting in La Cósmica’s regular courses in Buenos Aires. As a theater director he has premiered his own texts as well as works by Javier Daulte (Argentina), Julio Chávez (Argentina), and Lot Vekemans (Netherlands). He works as a composer and guitarist in the River Plate quintet Aguas Argentinas.