Of Antas, Saudade and tracing the Hours:
explanation and making meaning with Rivas Rivas

Performative installation; ca. 90 minutes. 2015
/ with Rivas Rivas

On the floor of the exhibition space is a heap of black ceramic objects, a box of latex gloves, a few sheets of paper with text on them, and a small plinth with booklets on it.  Rivas Rivas and I arrive, put on our latex gloves and sit down by the ceramic objects. We begin to speak unintelligibly with wild gestures and strenuously refer to both the text and the ceramic objects. Rivas Rivas occasionally gets up, takes a few of the object with her and, as I watch, constructs texts on the window sill. We then return to the text and the rest of the objects on the floor. This action is repeated for the duration of the performance until the entire text has been translated and all of the ceramic objects have been displaced.