September 23rd, 7-8pm 2017
Codex Drawing Score Project by Raphael Noz
Sound by Nicola Buffa
For this event, Raphael will lead visitors and participants in a dance derived from miracle stories. Written in a codex format mostly composed of pictures, the personal story of sacrifice and redemption will serve less as a verbal narrative and more as a springboard for movement. Participants are encouraged to hold a performance object and join in the movement forming a slowly moving constellation. By releasing energy through dance, the participatory performance will work the body’s own best memory device – physical movement.
Nicola Buffa (Source Field Sound) will accompany Raphael by creating the sound scape with a variety of alchemical crystal bowls and other instruments.
See photos and videos of the event here
About Raphael
“My work R deals with the ancient conflict of Europe and America, as played out in the drama of the fall of Mexico at the hands of the Spanish Conquistadors. This ancient history produced the Mexican ‘mestizo’ race of people who are not just indigenous and not just Spanish.
As an adult, I became very interested in my Mexican heritage, and began using the inspiration of its artistic expressions to explore my own themes.
I attended California College of the Arts in San Francisco, receiving a Masters Degree in Fine Arts in 2009. Having explored many new avenues including performance work during my time at CCA, my focus is shifting now to the printed word, and to constructions of shaped sheet metal.
I am finding inspiration in the mexican tradition of ‘hoja de lata’, or hammered tin, and am coming up with wall mounted shaped constructions of vessels and domestic objects.
Other recent inspirations for my work come from the finding of a very old letter by a friend of mine, which arrived at his house many many years after it was sent. I became fascinated by the idea of a message being lost somewhere only to find its place years later. I have been creating ‘antique’ letters using a very old typewriter and leaving them at galleries.”
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