Partitura/Score image for Crescendo Cantabile: Retracted Descriptions
Image/assemblage by Werner Thöni (of Adversorecto)
An oulipo-inspired collaboration between artist/professor Eloi Puig and the Adversorecto collective began as a mutually-retractive dialogue between Puig and Peter Freund (of Adversorecto) focused on interrogating three aspects of textuality: descripción/description, página/page, and texto/text. The dialogue was carried out across Spanish and English to bring out ambiguities available between the two languages. When the dialogue was completed in written form, Werner Thöni (of Adversorecto) developed for selected fragments from the text a visual partitura/score. This visual image highlights those words that will be subjected to performative intervention. The next stage in the project will be for the three collaborators to decide on the concrete recitation to be applied at the highlighted points in the partitura/score. Finally, the performance of the work will be presented in a public venue, and the full retracted desciptions text will be published in the next book of the IN>TRA series of the Imarte artistic research group from the University of Barcelona Faculty of Fine Arts.
A more detailed description of the project is presented in the following pdf, which also includes the partitura/score and dialogue fragments. Crescendo Cantabile: Retracted Descriptions.