Aurelia Noudelmann, Hala Namer and Lucía Vives
Pásame el lipstick, querida, 2020
Video (HD), B/W, sound, 17’12’’
Pásame el lipstick, querida, 2020
Video (HD), B/W, sound, 17’12’’
PT | ENG
Pásame el lipstick, querida by Aurelia Noudelmann, Hala Namer and Lucía Vives, a piece firstly conceived as a performance, is now presented as an experimental visual reading of a poem. Applying graphic programming to the sound produced by Namer and the reading of verses written by Vives, Noudelmann created visuals that react live to both pieces as they are performed. These digital ambiences show dimensional forms that continually gain or lose volume, following the vibration of sound. A grid, a series of cubes, an image of one of the artists during the performance, these images, appear at first as layers on different levels, but gradually merge into one another. In a both symbiotic and virtual way, they project organic and geometric spaces, dismantled and put back together over and over again.
Their deconstruction, follows the deconstruction of language itself, which makes use of repetitions and wordplays. In their turn, these loose verses with no distinguishable order or narrative, follow the logic of randomness and the rules of algorithm that have been applied to sound. Much as coding is a process of transformation, relations between signs and access, it presents itself as the key that intertwines these languages and their meanings, mixing their sequence and boundaries. Whether spontaneous or programmed, coded or intelligible, Pásame el lipstick, querida is therefore not just a visual projection, inasmuch as its digital formulas dictate the initial reading of the poem.