A Piece of Broken Mirror Suspended on a String

2014

Performance — environment

Conceived and presented with Maximilian Le CainOperation Rewrite project

2 palm trees, sheets of paper, tennis racquet, fisherman’s thread, white overalls, foil mask, portable screen, metal sheet, red torch, film, 2 16mm film projectors, recorded sounds

Anagrams by Javi Álvarez

An exploration of failure in language and in projection conceived and presented with Maximilian Le Cain taking as a starting point Witch's Cradle, the unfinished film by Maya Deren and Marcel Duchamp
Operation Rewrite performances usually involved the artists, as ‘scientist’ figures, interacting with elaborate film projections (Super8 and 16mm), pre-recorded and live sounds, as well as objects arranged to form mutant installations. Cut-up film noir narratives may coexist with a materialist investigation of both the artist’s body and the body of cinema. The medium of film becomes an object, malleable and fragile, edible, destructible, and capable of measuring space and time. Projected light and its magnetic field of intermittency may bleed through a sewing machine, illuminated against a corporeal screen and penetrate a blindfold.All of these actions and others, framed by a series of subtle and straightforward interruptions, made Operation Rewrite performances disturbing and humorous in equal parts.