Video by Milos Vucicevic
MONICA & CORDELIA
by Roberta Lazo Valenzuela
Concert :
20.01 - 7 PM
Opening hours :
25 - 26.01 / 3:00 - 7:00 pm
By acknowledging the rich material that surrounds our daily routine, the artist composes a series of pieces that use objects as basis for sound production. The idea is to give life to the objects by turning its sound into an animal-like song. Both, the music and the intervened object, are based on the concept of personification and/or zoomorphism, meaning an attribution of living qualities (human and animal respectively) to an inanimate object. In this particular case, the objects are giving their own voice through music, which is later materialized in one single body or “being”.
“Monica” and “Cordelia” are sound-art pieces consisting of daily life objects combined with elements of musical instruments. They are thought to fulfill both their original purpose and the sound production. This double usability proposes a reality that integrates the possibility of music and sound into our daily lives: a quotidian that can always be music. The artwork is presented as an interactive sound installation and a performance by the artist.
About the artist
Roberta Lazo Valenzuela is a Chilean composer and visual artist living in Austria. After earning her Bachelor's degree in Composition and working on various music and art projects, she emigrated to Europe, where she lived first in Germany and later in Austria. In 2018, she completed a master's degree in composition in Linz with Prof. Carola Bauckholt and began a second master's degree in TransArts at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna. In 2021 she spent six months in Norway at the Oslo National Academy of the Arts and finished her studies in Transdisciplinary Arts (TransArts).
Her work has been performed, exhibited and/or released in Austria, Germany, Norway, Romania, Latvia, Croatia, Chile, Switzerland, Spain and Ireland.
Part of An(other)South+, curated by Ramiro Wong
Supported by :
Bundesministerium für Kunst, Kultur, öffentlichen Dienst und Sport