UNTITLED RECORDS is a performative sound installation weaving historical and emotional narratives through the “instrumentalization” of a collection of records. An ensemble of reimagined record players are instruments built to perform an intimate selection from a family archive of popular music: “a set of records carefully shipped home from a country at war forty years ago”.
The vinyls were purchased in Angola, Portugal and Canada over a time span from the 60s to the early 80s and have traveled over three continents, they exist as a passive witnesses of a displacement in time and space.
Each date and signature is a coordinate, a clue in the reconstruction of a map tracing complex historical occurrences splitting into an infinite number of threads.
The multi arm record players with which several timelines can be played - from one single record to an ensemble of vinyls intertwine a juxtaposition of temporalities and imagined narratives trapped within the collection.
Each date and signature is a coordinate, a clue in the reconstruction of a map tracing complex historical occurrences splitting into an infinite number of threads.
The multi arm record players with which several timelines can be played - from one single record to an ensemble of vinyls intertwine a juxtaposition of temporalities and imagined narratives trapped within the collection.
UNTITLED RECORDS, performative installation, 2017- ongoing record collection and ensemble instrument of record players.
