Anfisbenas (2023)
Medium Drawing, sound, sculpture, installation, and performance
Materials Poems on steel, wax, speakers, amplifiers, and microphone
Dimensions9 feet x gauge 11 x 8 ft
DescriptionAnfisbenas is an 8-channel performance piece which consists of interacting through feedback with two large scale resonating idiophonic surfaces.
The performance reveals resonant points within the installation by feedbacking a signal from a microphone held by the performer into the metal structure. The performance piece is inspired by improvisation techniques with fixed media. A third sound source is located nearby which is reciting 100 haikus written in another durational performance relating to translating forms into different languages and their effects on the form’s structure. As the performance goes on the performer starts having a symbiotic relation with the plates through resonation, sharing a same body. Lastly the poems are also feedback to the circuit ending up the connection between sonic feedback
and poetry, the performer leaves the stage, and the 100 haikus keep feeding back into the work as an installation.
