Terence Gower
dal 29/10/2015 al 9/1/2016
Segnalato da
29/10/2015
Terence Gower
Museo Experimental El Eco, Mexico City
Manifiesto. Canadian artist has incorporated Mathias Goeritz' manifesto into a new musical composition that will be both performed live and played back
Manifiesto juxtaposes music and architecture, two forms of expression that employ rhythm, harmony, proportion, and dynamics. Mathias Goeritz, in his 1952 Manifiesto de la arquitectura emocional and in his manifesto's built form, El Eco, added emotion to this list of architecture's essential characteristics. Canadian artist Terence Gower has incorporated Goeritz' manifesto into a new musical composition that will be both performed live and played back in El Eco for the duration of his exhibition. Gower commissioned New York composer Will Orzo to develop a basic gospel melody -a musical form that uses emotion as an engine for spiritual elevation-for a selection of key phrases from Goeritz' text. The performer of Manifiesto-Rachel Sharples, a young gospel artist from Queens, New York-worked with the artist and composer to record Orzo's composition as well as her own improvisations on the text. Gower has arranged Manifiesto to demonstrate how cultural manifestos have an emotional and spiritual function similar to that of religious musical forms. Museo Experimental El Eco first opened in 1953 as a visionary project space dedicated to the "art of its time," conceived by the German artist Mathias Goeritz and Mexican entrepreneur Daniel Mont.