Flamenco
2005
The piece, a sound installation, was part of a site specific exhibition in a old house in the centre of Sanlucar De Barrameda in Andalucia, Spain. The house used to belong to Eduardo Lobato, a well known local writer passionate about art and flamenco. I was interested in meeting and working together with someone local.
Having experimented with recording of dancers while I was at art school, I decided to carry on my investigation into rhythms and sounds by working with a flamenco dancer. I recorded her steps while she was dancing, a very intense sound sometimes similar to machine guns, from a fixed point and asked her to dance in the different rooms of the house, her position in relation to the mic varying the sound intensity.During the exhibition, a pair of headphones relayed the recordings to the visitors seated on a bench in the middle of the house facing a corridor where lights would go on and off.
Through this I encouraged the viewer to experience the physicality of the house by listening and looking, using the history of the house as a reference point.
