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CALM

JOSÉ BIDEGAIN | 2019

It is said that the universe exists for over 4.500
million years. Since its initial explosion, it
continues to expand and develop, although in its
history it has met countless deaths. What is death
then, if not only a transformation?

By becoming aware of the potential contained in the
act of dying, we get in contact with the primitive
energy manifested through our own matter. Death is
consciously called upon to declare a rite of passage
from one state to another.

Sound is used as an instrument for frequencies
manipulation, opening a portal through the
vibration of the mouth harp and constant rhythms,
that were produced with pans and pots, sound that
characterized the public manifestations of the
revolution.

Conceived as a trilogy of performances, CALM
emerges as a space of the sensitizing possibilities
that death gives life. It is a reflection upon the
constant transformation of the living, The body
functions as a mediator between worlds; drifting and
encountering symbolic milestones, it transmutes its
own matter.

14th Media Art Biennial of Santiago

Santiago de Chile, December 2019