Fraccions // in situ glass performances
FRACCIONS is a duet between a matter and a body. FRACCIONS is a path with glass. It’s a series of in-situ performances which explore memory and sensory traces, the sensations of the material of glass in a horizontal relationship with the human body. FRACCIONS are performative fragments adapted to context and space.
The performances play with old bohemian glasses and/or new handblown glass objects. The project sprouted out of the creation Kristall Bohème, co-produced by the Mercat de les Flors and awarded with the Scholarship Premis de Barcelona 2020. It emerges from the desire to deepen research with the material of glass, looking for platforms in which to experiment with
movement art, performance and glass blowing, and at the same time they are part of the exploration for the new creation SKLENKA MELTA carried out by Vivian Friedrich as author and director in 2024.
Each performative fragment generates an “echo” of action and has an installation object that can remain in the space as a trace of the performance.
FRACCIONS#9 [carte blanche dans le Couvent des Prêcheurs]
Site specific creation together with the juggler Agustí Margarit and the asistance of Amaya Goñi. Dialogue between body, soul and glass in an old cloister courtyard. A space which has been transformed during time.
Live flameworking, object manipulation, circus and dance.
Duo performance. 4x 20min. 21st of september 2024.
Impressions: -> Link
FRACCIONS#8 [how forgiveness comes home]
8 is the beginning and the end at the same time. It’s a circle. 8 as eternity that is made up of the past and the future. Glass performance in the library in Liberec, CZ, together with Maider Lasa Santamaria. 50,4 km from my grandparent’s home.
Duo performance at Crystall Valley Week. 2x20min.
31st of august.
FRACCIONS #7 [art en vidre]
Three performances, same same but different about the balance between roots and glass – memory and present.
- Roots and broken glass. In the gallery.
- The balance between the old and the new. In the Gallery.
- Performance in the street with a text about glass observations.
Solo performance in Girona 3x20min. Every thursday during the exposition Art-en-Vidre. March 2024.
FRACCCIONS #6 [the cristal voice]
A choreography of 2 performers, borosilicate glass tubes and glass bubbles. A live music composition, giving voice to the transparent objects. A vertebra which can break at any moment. Creation with Maider Lasa Santamaria.
Duo performance 3x 20min. XII Jornades Arts del vidre, Escaldes-Engordany, Andorra. 21-22 october 2023.
FRACCIONS#5 [let the glass speak]
Performance with borosilicate glass tubes and blown glass objects that create a dialogue with the human body. The human body at the service of the object, creating a sound space. An object-body conversation around fragility, strength and balance.
Solo performance 12min-120min. depending on the context. Sharing research at Can Gassol Mataró 18th december 2022.
FRACCIONS#4 [the echo of glassblowing]
A space in which the state of glassblowing and the transformation of matter and the body is the protagonist. Live glassblowing is interspersed with dance improvisations. Different collaborations with musicians, illustrators, photographers and video makers are possible.
Happening with Harriet Bruce and Tara Juno Rowse on 8th october 2023. 1-4 hours.
FRACCIONS#3 [vestido azul]
A performance in the time of memory. New and old objects. Shadows on the wall which overlap with the present body. Smooth wall and dark floor. Light sand.
Solo Performance 15min. Several times performed at Sala Ars, Barcelona. February and july 2022.
FRACCIONS#2 [Between birth and the past]
A landscape of old objects and new objects. White wall and floor. Black earth. A semi-frontal-lateral focus.
8min.
FRACCIONS#1 [La coraza de vidrio]
Clear wall and floor. Movement sequence with glasses positioned on top of the body. 7min-12min depending on space and context.
Collaborations: Agus Margarit (performance and creative collaboration), Maider Lasa Santamaria (performance and music composition), Amaya Goñi (asistance and creative collaboration), Elena Zanu (outside eye), Sara Serrano (outside eye), Ferran Collado (glass art collaboration and glass tutor), Ula Goldasz (glass art collaboration), Nuria Torrente (glass art collaboration), Carlos Parra (sound), Andrés Soto Galián (light and technical support), Julián D’Avino (photography), Caterina Angeloni (photography), Prokop (photography), Tara Juno Rowse (in-situ photography), Harriet Bruce (in-situ illustration)
My research between body, glass and movement is supported by: Mercat de les Flors, Cultura Mataró, Generalitat de Catalunya, Cirqueon, Wroclawski Instytut Kultury, NAU Churuduu, Convent de les Arts