24 Hours.
24 Hours.
Within the fort there are contiguous spaces where the 24 participants are arranged, each space communicates with the contiguous by arches and with a door with the circular corridor through which the public passes. Everything has a thick layer of sand-dust that will spread throughout the space.
The idea is to develop a simultaneous installation-performance for 24 hours
Install under the light chinese boxes that produce sound of crickets that will sound all the time
The performer begins by cleaning the ruins that occupy the floor of the space, pave the floor with the bricks that occlude the door to the corridor, leaving free the access of the visitors.
To every one of the people that approaches the performer asks him to write with chalk on a brick, its main obsession.
In exchange the performer gives them a paper where an different obsession is written, staple it in a hanger of clothes in wire, to carry with them.
The performer moves slowly by stepping on empty bricks for several hours.
Empty brics becomes less and less.
In some hollow between the bricks he places lit candles, under the light of a light bulb, in the growing dusty haze.
Standing up holding a candle from the top dropped drops of wax on the chalk words on the bricks.
The performer squatting on the ruins accumulated in the corner for hours.
Folding scissor chairs are placed leaning on empty bricks, as there are not many, construction takes height, stability and balance. From the inverted position of the chairs within the paved area, they rotate assembled in the air, until they take the usual position out of the bricks.
The next morning, sitting behind a table the performer welcomes the visitors he continues to ask about his obsession.
He offers a smiling ball with open palm, closes it and withdraws at the moment that the visitor was going to catch it.
He staggers a tumbler doll with the figure of the smiling Buddha who roar with pirate laugther.
24 Hours.
