Everyone looks up as the sound of a storm gets louder and louder the room shakes with the sound of a tropical storm that continues till the end.Īna Texeira Pinto found the first image compelling – the dog’s extraction of a bone that is a dolphin as a moment of magical realism, of enchantment and disenchantment. Blinds are taken down from upper levels, so there is a new source of light. She launches into a story about a female figure and a snake pretending to be dead told from the reptile’s point of view. She draws the drapes and walks around the room her breathing is audible. Montenegro sits down and gives a first-person account of the excavation and extraction process. And then we hear another story about finding a sunken ship and the corals and bones of those who perished with it accompanied by birdsong and deep sea sounds. The light comes up, and we hear birdsong, a description of nature sounds, the sea, walking and sitting. She reads from a script with a light attached to it about dissecting a dolphin. The artist walks around holding a mic in the darkened space. Why do materials, objects, beings and organisms replicate each other?
The narrative locates forms of fiction that take place in real life, moving from the aesthetical to the political.Īna Teixeira Pinto, Ghalya Saadawi, Laura Harris and Rachel O’Reilly responded to the question: Performative reading entangling 3 different discoveries of diverse value and materiality: a snake, a ship and a dolphin. 20 minute presentation for AEROPONIC ACTS - growing roots in air, DAI's 3 day marathon of lecture-perfomance acts, May 2019.
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