VOC·DAT
"Only through time, time is conquered.", T. S. Eliot.
"Being on the outskirts is also being on the inside.", Pablo García Casado
DISPOLYTHOPIA (synopsis)
Dispolitopia: dystopian and political
Through the figure of the flâneur we will work on the dramaturgy of sound in abandoned spaces, recording certain sounds, noises, or voices, with mobile technology and including them in the work we produce. We will work in the studio with voices and other sounds. We are interested in these spaces, which are located or paralyzed in a certain historical moment. Any space conceived as a mere transit. How the ruin survives, the structure, despite the irremissible passage of time. With urban exploration we make contact with bodily sensations provoked by passing through them: chills, a certain feeling of insecurity. This is how we will transfer it to sound, to musical emotions, to our own poems, to the sound work we do.
A non-place, as already exposed Marc Augé in the field of anthropology or Ballard in that of science fiction, it is an intermediate space that does not provide us with identity, it subtracts it in a certain way. We are interested in the relationship of these concepts as applied to poetry: "There is no time for poetry", as he wrote Carilda Oliver Labra. The genre itself is a non-place between literary genres. Poetry is the margin, a note on the margin, musicality, body, experience, a game of repetitions that endow the signifier itself with other meanings. This is how we work the poetic genre: weaving a sonorous space that gives meaning to those residual spaces, victims of the acceleration of capitalist processes or the excessive advance of neoliberalism. We are interested in emphasizing how these urban spaces affect the environment, how they abound after certain historical processes, they grow, destined to disuse or to shelter victims of the social context. How nature takes sides, takes possession of them with its branches, trees growing inside them. How time has been eating space to time, we are interested in stopping for a moment. To forget the fear it arouses, to consider it a lie.
BIOGRAPHY
VOC·DAT is made up of the poet, multidisciplinary artist and journalist Alicia G. Núñezthe experimental musician Daniel Alvarez and the plastic artist and poet Ángela Gemio. It is also the acronym of the verse of Alejandra Pizarnik: "Vertigo or contemplation of something ending.".
They work in the field of contemporary sound art, experimental electronic music and poetry. Their research includes the work of authors such as Gloria Fuertes, Virginie Despentes, Adrienne Rich o A. Pizarnik and their own. Their live performances are random and improvised in real time. Each sample of their production is unique in performative terms.
The piece programmed here is a field recording work that was made for the call for proposals. "24H World Phonography" of the UQAC – Université du Québec à Chicoutimi. VOCDAT was selected for this call for proposals and performed field recording and live recording work at Konvent Zero. The band at that time consisted of Alicia G. Núñez, Daniel Álvarez Martínez and Ángela Gemio. To date, only Dani is still with her.
Alicia G. y Ángela Gemio have embarked on a new path with a band named LiTTiO Xwith the same mutant and noise-generating spirit.
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