Deslices is an ongoing collaborative project that started in April 2019. A collaborative enactment that migrates between voices, bodies and geographies. The current iteration involves extracts from an ongoing WhatsApp dialogue between artists Catalina Barroso-Luque (Mexico City) and Daniella Valz Gen (London). 

Voice and field recordings by Catalina Barroso-Luque and Daniella Valz Gen 
Excerpts from songs recorded over the phone:  ‘A la mañantita’ by Paloma del Cerro, ‘Adiós Nonino’ by Astor Piazzolla, ‘Cucurrucucú Paloma’ by Tomás Méndez, performed by Lola Beltrán, ‘No soy de aquí, ni soy de allá’ by Facundo Cabral, performed by Chavela Vargas.
Audio mixing by Richard McMaster

The audio piece is accompanied by an A3 publication available upon request.

Deslices is generously supported by Glasgow International 2021 and the a-n Artist Bursary.

Deslices

Audio parte de obra escultórica 

Texto poético donde una mujer se queda dormida en la tina y comienza un viaje a través de distintas alucinaciones, mitos y paisajes acuosos. En el comienzo del tiempo, los bustos de la mujer vienen a formar los picos un par de volcanes nacientes. Un caracol se desliza sobre ellos hasta llegar a tocar el agua de la tina.  Minutos más tarde la mujer presencia como su cuerpo es desmembrado y arrojado al mar, su extremidades transformándose en calamares, conchas y coral.

Madre Perla

A narrative sound piece and poem which imagines the creation of the world after lovers Day and Night accidentally break a small robin’s egg. The piece draws from research into creation myths, focusing on cycles of transformation and the imaginary landscapes in which these stories take place. The environmental elements in the piece play the story's main characters, with aural and vocal elements moving across four speakers to create highly sensory sonic environments which are equally salacious, wrathful and bright.

*Headphones are highly recommended. 

Please note that this piece was orignally mixed for a quad set-up.

Blue Egg Love Child is produced by Catalina Barroso-Luque and Feronia Wennborg with support from the Nordic Culture Fund and the Nordic Art Association. The work was mixed at Elektronmusikstudion (SE).

Blue Egg Lovechild (stereo)

Experiments with cackling, wailing, croaking, screeching and scratching the strings of a piano.  Inspired by ghost stories, haunted houses, keening practices from Ireland and the north of Spain, and La Santa Muerte deity from Mexico. Playing with ideas about invoking spirits or being possessed by demons.

Image credit: Missal, Bologna ca. 1370 Avignon, Bibliothèque municipale, ms. 136, fol. 343v

Cackling

Audio for 'Te di ojos y boca para llorar' 
Paired set of ceramic vessels that belong to an undetermined ancient people, presenting a different pained expression. The vessels are haunted by a chorus of keening voices and a ghostly fog.
More info here:
http://catalinabarroso-luque.com/tediojosyboca.html

Ghost Vessels

Narrative sound work, focusing on how the body, the mind, and technology become entangled within inter/intra-personal relationships. The piece is inspired by interviews with my brother regarding his use of GECI viruses to map neural networks, the parallels of working within a hermetic studio and laboratory, and the possibility of slipping into the voices in one’s head. The narration leads the audience through nine hallucinatory episodes within which the narrator slips in and out of consciousness, loosing the ability to distinguish inside from outside, body from space, and itself from the ‘you’ it is addressing. By playing with the desire to become-with an other, the machine and space, the work addresses notions of personal agency.  

Voice-over: Victoria Chen Wei

Piece presented as part of eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee on at The Pipe Factory, Glasgow UK. (Aug 10th – 27th, 2017)

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Voice-over: Victoria Chen Wei

Narrative sound work, focusing on how the body, the mind, and technology become entangled within inter/intra-personal relationships. The piece is inspired by interviews with my brother regarding his use of GECI viruses to map neural networks, the parallels of working within a hermetic studio and laboratory, and the possibility of slipping into the voices in one’s head. The narration leads the audience through nine hallucinatory episodes within which the narrator slips in and out of consciousness, losing the ability to distinguish inside from outside, body from space, and itself from the ‘you’ it is addressing. By playing with the desire to become-with another, the machine and space, the work addresses notions of personal agency.

Aired as part of Radiophrenia 2017, Radio Space Borealis (Bergen 2018) and Wave Farm (London 2019)

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Part of 'soft . lipid . love' series an exploration of the permeable boundaries between self-self, self-other, self-object and self-technology. The piece incorporated a pink gallery and a series of silicon organs, endowed with a syrupy oral pulse, onto which the audience can connect. Through means of entanglement and seduction, the organs played with the reproduction of technological and linguistic bodies, and the performativity of their related processes.

Slippery Word Muck

Excerpts from 'soft . lipid . love' series, an exploration of the permeable boundaries between self-self, self-other, self-object and self-technology. The installation incorporated a pink gallery and a series of silicon organs, endowed with a syrupy oral pulse, onto which the audience can connect. Through means of entanglement and seduction, the organs played with the reproduction of technological and linguistic bodies, and the performativity of their related processes.

Soft Lipid Love Audio Reel

Draft 2 towards mouth parasites. 
Voice-over: Paula Lopez Zambrano

She shapes her tongue into a new timber - Paula

R-22 is an audio narrative collaboratively produced by flatmates Catalina Barroso-Luque and Feronia Wennborg. R-22 is one and many. R-22 is a refrigerant gas stuck in a routine. R-22 was produced in quarantine.

This domestic sci-fi tale was produced using home recordings and samples of everything but the kitchen sink.

Commissioned by Wysing Arts Centre for Wysing Broadcasts

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