Collaborative project · 2016 · Tàrrega, Lleida
Terra Condere — Silere
Artistic creation and spatial conception
«La salida»
The director of the Silere theatre company, Maria Capell Pera, proposed that we work together: creating the installations for a piece she was going to present at FiraTàrrega, the international market for the performing arts, on a 61,000 m² site.
The challenge was to use the materials the space was already made of and, at most, to add others related to it: clay, wood, stone, traditional building materials. Things in harmony with the site, which would create subtle images.
The research process was very interesting. With the help of Rocío Cardero Romero, who works with social projects, we compiled information on the emotions a place like this provokes; and through documentaries, reading and Skype conversations we built the concepts for some of the installations. When I arrived in Tàrrega and we walked the site in silence, the places that stood out on their own began to appear, and from them came the remaining installations and the dramaturgy of the project.
The installations stayed on the site all summer. In September the landscape is much harder and much drier: they had to be restored to make them ready for the Fira.
The site
An empty space, a wasteland, uninhabited
A project that was never undertaken: a city outside the city, on its edge. The work was a journey on foot through its invisible walls, and it began on a bus that left from the gates of the Tàrrega cemetery.
First stop
«La entrada», from emptiness to emptiness
A red door set in the middle of the field, which closes nothing and separates nothing. It marks the passage from one state to another: from there on, you are inside.
So as not to get lost
«Los caminos»
They link one installation to the next and lead the audience across the site. They are made with a different earth: the only material is the difference in colour.
Time
«El círculo»
A round hole dug in the dry land and filled with water. In a place without water, the circle gives back the sky.
Looking towards the horizon
«Las islas»
Stones gathered on the spot, brought together in the hollow left by the turned earth. Small islands you only see if you walk looking at the ground.
The almond trees
«Encierro»
The almond trees in the field were half dry. They were pulled out, turned over and replanted with their roots in the air: the dead tree is alive again, but as something else.
Reflections and water
«Los palos»
Poles driven into the ground in a row, a box to sit on, a jug of water and a mirror. Behind, nature; in front, the road.
A place of shade
«Los olivos»
Five olive trees cleared from the inside so you could climb in and sit down. From there, among the branches, a megaphone played the final text, which gave a different meaning to the whole walk.
The boundary
«Alambre de espinas naturales»
A wire fence made only of thorns: the field’s fence, without the wire.
The one left out
«Telaraña»
Red threads strung between the olive trees. It is the only installation that did not make it into the final work, and Rinat kept it on the project page all the same. The summer sun faded the red: an ephemeral work in nature.
This way to the horizon
«La salida»
A row of wooden doors, each smaller than the last, that ends at the horizon and leads nowhere.
Credits
- Artistic creation and spatial conception
- Rinat Izhak
- Company
- Silere
- Direction and script
- Maria Capell Pera
- Director’s assistant
- Andrea Paz
- Ambient sound
- Musgö
- Voices
- Cristina Canudas Núria Casado Andrea Paz María Rives
- Technicians
- Andrea Paz Cristina Canudas Lluki Portas
- Manager
- María Rives
- Photography and video
- Andrea Paz
- Research
- Rocío Cardero Romero
- Residency and premiere
- FiraTàrrega, Tàrrega, Lleida
- Performances
- Public rehearsal, June 2016 FiraTàrrega, finished work, September 2016
- Thanks
- Brigada Municipal de l’Ajuntament de Tàrrega Ràdio Tàrrega FiraTàrrega team Fellow Masters students Maria Capell Pera’s family Eva Marichalar Carme Bellet Hagit Titievsky Pedro Fraile Natàlia Lloreta Rocío Cardero Romero