Wednesdays of sound and body / The stone of sacrifice

We live in an age in which time slips through our fingers, with pressure to eternally fulfil unattainable precepts that erode us along the way. We live in an age where the body and appearance is a constant construction subjected to control and discipline. We believe we are free to design ourselves, but in many cases this freedom is nothing more than a covert docility, a reproduction of cultural canons and expectations. Control, discipline and the desire to achieve that idyllic paradise, whether in the form of a corporeal image or through an apparently successful life, allows us to realise this constant characteristic of people who dedicate themselves body and soul to their professional careers (from the field of sporting competition to professional artistic careers), accepting the sacrifices that this entails. What awaits us when we reach the epitome of this constant and stifling competition? What lies behind the constant trial and error?

From the competitive extremes in professional spheres to the most everyday roles in our society, we all find ourselves subjected to this dialogue between punishment, control, domestication and the aspiration to succeed.

The composer and saxophonist Irene Reig, the visual artist La Santa (Sandra Ortiz) and the performance artist Isa Fontbona, propose a three-way dialogue – sound-visual-corporal – to allow us to feel in our own skin the absurdities of our modus vivendi, in constant competition for a paradise of smoke, reminding us that our cultural tradition is often still playing havoc with our way of constructing our identity.