Latitude 56
A morning by a sunrise machine
(2013, Audio)
a work by Dídio Pestana
 
Sound wakes up like sunrises. In my street there are four, four streets, four different sunrises, four sound sourses. I Live in latitude 56, sun takes between 2 to 3 minutes from the first ray to the fully formed ball. Sometimes snows, rains, sometimes you get a glipse of light. The light is filtered like the sound, throu the streets.

Latitude 56

Jóhannes Benediktsson read the poems number 3, 4, 5, 42 and 55 from ‪Völuspá‬, which are related with the birth and death of the Sun according to the North Mythology Cosmology.
He read as well the poems 58 and 59 from Hávamál, which are related with the healthiness of rising early.

Voluspá and Hávamál

"Spiel im Morgengrauen", is a book by Arthur Schnitzler that tells the story of a gambler. 
With this book, started our reflection about a "Morgengrauen", a grey morning, placed side by side with mist and wish of the returning of a portuguese King, with the icelandic bloody morning. 

In other words, the focus of our thoughts was to confront the concept of "Dawn" with its own meaning in different Languages.  Addressing it through various perspectives, from the most sociological, cultural and historical dimension of language, until the emotional one.

The book collects a variety of thoughts, translated over different medias, an imaginarium that doesn't aim to be more than this.
A collective reflection with no borders, methodologies or systems,
made by:

Yasmim Assade
Freja Bäckman
Jóhannes Benediktsson
Emilie Bernard
Hyeisoo Kim
Gaelle Kreens
Catarina Laranjeiro
Marta Leite
Bárbara Marcel
Dídio Pestana
Eirik Sordal
Benedikt Terwiel
Marco Ugolini
Francisca Villela
Mário Gomes & Elisa Balmaceda
Mariana Caló & Francisco Queimadela
and with an Interview to Guðbergur Bergsson.


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