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The Mirror of Galadriel (2012)
A ping-pong table, pine cones, two performers, live projection and amplification
A musical performance that is on the territory of the visual art. Two performers – a man and a woman – interact with each other on both sides of a ping pong table that is divided with a net («mirror»). They reflect certain actions of each other according to the rules written in the score. One of the players is the leader, another reflects the motions. Sometimes, during the play, they might change their roles or perform both at the same time. Cones play a role of found objects that are interacted with a surface of a table. As a result the palette of sounds appears that later correlates with sounds of breathing.
The performance is about understanding without words; possibilities of seeing in the others only own reflection; wish to influence reality, control it and failing to do so; moment that changes the game; life that is going beyond its limits.
Newspaper «Russian musician» N3/2013:
“Author sets the task to discover the richness of natural timbre instead of using specially constructed instruments. That is the reason of serious criteria for objects: “Cones must be open and dry; they must bounce easily and when scratched on the table surface should produce a creaky noise. When thrown on the surface of the table this type of a cone must produce a very mute sound, must have a long resonance and a minimal ricochet”…
Performance was chosen in a final round of Gaudeamus Prize 2013 (The Netherlands) where the author was the youngest nominee. Premiere performance was held at Dialogs/Memory Spaces project (Platforma, Moscow, December of 2012).
In 2014 The Mirror of Galadriel was chosen for the final round of the independent Russian Award for contemporary art Kandinsky Prize.