Trans-Versus

Performance-installation for Thirstdays No 3 Harbour Heaven

Josema Zamorano + Eleanor Hendriks + Manuel Piña

Josema Zamorano and Eleanor Hendriks cocreated Trans-Versus, for thirstDays #3 Event: Harbour/Haven, curated by Denise Ryner + Tonel, at VIVO Media Arts Centre, April 2016; the whole thirstDays series was curated by Jayce Salloum. With the participation of Manuel Piña (Naufragios, video), and performers Helen Spiegelman, Claudia Golombiewski, Noelle Pare and Osvaldo Castillo

Trans-Versus is a performance-installation that considers T.S. Eliot’s The Wasteland, while playing with the ideas of connectedness and transformation against the backdrop of geographies shaped by the imposition of resource-extraction infrastructures. The inclusion of Manuel Piña's video work, Naufragios (2015) adds a layer linking the boundlessness of the ocean and existential finitude to the performances.

The inhabitant of the ultracity is nowhere and everywhere at the same time, real-time (dis)connected and constantly (de)localized. The need for speed has brought unprecedented demands on land and resources that change the modern city from being a place of election into a place of ejection. We choose to designate a non-place, an alignment of openings, for poetic conspiration. We trans-verse the pipeline to create the potential for confluence. Here is an alternate view of a dwelling place as arising from the interplay among shared words and constructed spaces.

In this decayed hole among the mountains
In the faint moonlight, the grass is singing

T.S. Eliot, The Wasteland

print spread from thirstDays End Notes Art Book. Published by Jayce Salloum and VIVO Media Arts, 2017

thirstDays End Notes Art Book. Published by Jayce Salloum and VIVO Media Arts, 2017