1999-2003

La Virreina Centre de la Imatge

A work project constituted in 1999 by Manel Clot and Vacca, to interrelate deconstructed visual devices pertaining to the contemporary visual arts repertory with appropriate sound environments taken from a variety of sources with the purpose of configurating multiple sound spaces in which, on the one hand the idea of authorship and reproduceability are diffused, and on the other hand, considering sound not only as supporting material in a display but as an intrinsically three-dimensional conveyor of thought and narration, producing soundscapes as places of confluence, meeting and interference. around: a reconsideration of the phenomena of perception and comprehension, achieved by re-utilizing fragments of musical pieces that have been divested of their power as signifiers and reduced to a succession of sounds, restructured and organized in a three-dimensional disposition.
(Texts by Manel Clot).

Works and exhibitions:
Film: Sound playback equipment, five loudspeakers, wood, acetate, needles. Marcelino Botín Foundation, Santander, 2000. Periferias, Huesca, 2000

Welthauch: Sound playback equipment, four loudspeakers, wire. Centre Cultural “La Caixa”, Barcelona, 2001

Hypnotic (Letters): Sound playback equipment, one loudspeaker, wire, graphite. Galería Estrany De la Mota, Barcelona, 2003

Neither: Sound playback equipment, two loudspeakers. Casa Soler i Palau, Terrassa (Barcelona), 2003.

In 1999, Alicia Murria offered me an exhibition at the Fundación Marcelino Botín, and I made the counterproposal of doing it together with Manel Clot. She accepted, and that is how we materialized AROUND, which lasted until 2003. Working with Manel was simultaneously easy and difficult, sometimes it rolled along smoothly, sometimes the task seemed impossible. In those overfed days, the method was that there was no method, the ideas arose in the middle of conversations “around” almost anything, and then we had to tidy it up and bring about the unavoidable coalescence of the piece. We managed to produce four sound-installations that were exhibited in various places around Spain. Then, one day, it was over; just as it had begun: intuitively. FOR EVER