BONNIE COLLURA
SPILLOVER
Spillover is an audio track, consisting of four chapters, whose sounds were organized to fit into a 7-minute loop. The four chapters are titled after the first exercise in the four weeks of prayers in St. Ignatius of Loyola’s Spiritual Exercises.
Spillover is part of a larger piece including sculpture, video, and performance. A choreographed a dance accompanies this soundtrack as well as a dress that is very layered, sort of like a Victorian mourning dress. The top layers of the dress are black fabric, the underside layers are tan fabric, to match my skin tone. I will be dancing a 7 minute dance to the 7-minute looped Spillover audio repeatedly until my body can’t stand up anymore.
The result of this performance will be a highly edited video, showing the fabric switching from black to tan and showing that my body is slowly, failing. The video will have headphones nearby as an option for the viewer to hear the audio. Opposite this projected video, will be another projected video of me doing the same 7-minute dance to the same Spillover audio track, but inside the Prince sculpture (image provided). Because my body will be constricted by the sculpture’s weight and its material inflexibility, the movements will resemble something like a crude cartoon figure moving. The videos of each character, The Prince and myself, will face each other. This alignment with purposeful separation represents two things that were designed to be as together, but that inevitably will never sync up.
I titled the Soundtrack Spillover to refer to a term used to describe rapid ritual dancing (such as Sufi dancing). In Eugene d’Aquili and Andrew B. Newberg’s book, « The Mystical Mind; Probing the Biology of Religious Experience », its describes what happens to one’s arousal system when performing a rapid ritual:
» …One can see a bottom up process with rapid external rhythms driving the arousal system. We hypothesize that the rapid external rhythmic drivers would eventually lead to a release of hippocampal inhibition on arousal centers in the brain. This would result in an increased arousal drive via the amygdala and cortex. This process continues until maximal arousal occurs, which, as mentioned before, leads to spillover and quiescent breakthrough. »
I organized the sounds to relate to how I formally weave abstraction within specificity when I am fusing forms into a single surface shell (such as in the sculpture, Mary, image provided).
The Chapters in Spillover are titled as follows:
Chapter 1:
Week One- Principle and Foundation
1:00-1:42
Chapter 2:
Week Two-The Call of the Temporal King
1:43-3:15
Chapter 3:
Week Three-First Contemplation
3:15-5:50
Chapter Four:
Week Four-Contemplation to Gain Love
5:51-7:00
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ECOUTER
Première écoute : jeudi 2 septembre à 12h, 15h, 19h, et 00h, jusqu’au 9 septembre mêmes horaires
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