MURMURS VIII: Roc Jiménez de Cisneros, Thin Zones | Activity
In whispersrumor is activated as a form of knowledge that circulates through archives, myths and shared narratives. This talk/concert by Roc Jiménez de Cisneros stands in the uncertain territory where narratives split and references shift. A performative exploration to connect cultural genealogies and open up new readings of what we think we know.
Thin Zones is presented as an almost detective-like investigation: a journey through clues, coincidences and theories that connect apparently unconnected territories. Setting out from the literary world view of Jorge Luis Borges and Stephen King, the piece draws an unexpected map that leads towards the culture of acid house, the occult and contemporary rumors spreading. The result is not so much a talk as a speculative drift in which music, popular culture and urban legends are interwoven until they become indistinguishable.
In the course of the performance, each connection works as another clue within an expanding archive: symbols that reappear, narratives that shift between the documented and the apocryphal, discourses that leak into one another and knowledge systems with cracks running through them. All of these ideas have run through Roc Jiménez de Cisneros’ artistic practice for some time now.
As in many of his pieces, what appears in the foreground is just one layer. Beneath there is often another more or less visible structure, made up of cross references, coded messages, Easter eggs and little winks inviting the audience to look more carefully. In this space, stories fold over one another, generating parallel readings and unexpected connections, in which one reference may open the door to another completely different one.
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Roc Jiménez de Cisneros is an artist. He is part of computer music group EVOL along with Stephen Sharp. His work explores both literal and metaphorical processes of deformation in music, graphics, light installations and essays. His music uses all sorts of spatial analogies in order to fold some of his favorite cultural icons. He calls it acid mereotopology. He is also a member of the Radio Web MACBA Working Group.
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This action is part of whispersa live arts program running over twelve months to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the museum. The program makes use of the poetry of the unfinished, undocumented or simply unmade to review key episodes in the recent past.
MACBA Thirty
We celebrate Year Thirty of an infinite MACBA that projects the future as a space for revision and possibility: of taking up what was left unfinished, updating what needs it and projecting anew everything that can still be transformed.
