Lament

The Ar_Search collective thought of a series of sound sculptures that will be installed in a church based on the local iconography and objectal religious heritage, crossing the private religious phonosphere-lament. The installation is based on a number of empty glass domesinhabited by a rotating system driven by a motor that will slowly rotate a small metal arm, placed near the glass to produce friction between glass and metal arm, a “lament”. The empty dome, commonly used to protect religious images, embodies the palpable absence of the place where once symbolic faith objects dwelt. These small altars, empty of content, but cyclical and repetitive in their internal mechanisms, represent an ancestral movement of hope and disappointment. This works as a judicious metaphor for our era, where the sensation of imbalance and doubt has replaced the certainty of eternal progress and endless economic growth. In parallel, we propose a collection of recordings of songs, prayers and rosaries, because faith and personal strength takes in churches an expression of a collective nature, so the recordings to be made in churches would integrate the installation, taking advantage of the acoustic qualities and architectural space of the church.

Rodrigo Malvarattended the course in Civil Engineering at the University of Beira Interior and Interpretation Course at the School of Music and the Performing Arts (ESMAE). He Concluded in 2002 specialization in Theatre Arts at the Academy of Contemporary Street Entertainment. He presently attends the 2nd year of Master in Contemporary Artistic Creation at the University of Aveiro. He is co-founder of Teatro do Frio where he assumes functions of artistic director and interpreter. He Directed dozens of shows since 2001. He Exhibited the sound installation FUGA GEOGRÁFICA at the International Puppet Festival-Porto (2012) and EXPO 12-Aveiro (2012). In the context of the master course, he exhibited a video and sound art piece PROSSIGO at the Sound and Rural Architecture Festival BINAURAL/NODAR (2012). Ana Guedes has a degree in Fine Art And Sculpture from the Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Porto and the Master Of Visual Arts in Intermedia from the University of Évora and is dedicated to building “Prothesical/Pro-esthetical” objects for musical instruments. She has worked inscenography for Casa da Música, Teatro do Frio and Companhia de Música Teatral (CMT). As a visual artist he produced various exhibitions both nationally and abroad.