Performance by Eloi Puig, Raquel Muñoz and Peter Freund

Next Saturday, May 7th, is the last day to visit the IN> TRA exhibition. Artistic practice as a model of experience, the artists Eloy Puig, Raquel Muñoz and Peter Freund will do a performance around his work, Tilottama-Kptekan Alignment (2018-2019), which is part of the exhibition.

Tilottama-Kotekan Alignment (2018-2019) is based on the comparison of two given images. On the one hand, the image of the nymph Tilottama, protagonist of the Hindu legend of the Sunda and Upasunda asuras and responsible for causing their mutual destruction by love for her. Even the gods Shiva and Indra are described as in love with Tilottama. The drawing is the work of the Indian painter Raya Ravi Varma and is a clear fusion of indigenous traditions with the techniques of European academic art. On the other hand, a photograph of a kantilan gangsa, which is part of the Balinese set of instruments called gamelan. In the summer of 2018, Víctor Ojeda, a member of the group Gamelan Penempaan Guntur1, wrote a score for gamelan that puts music to the legend.

The comparison between the two images was performed using Sigmament, an image alignment software developed by Marc Padró and based on the sequence alignment method using the Needleman-Wunsch algorithm.

Tilottama-Kotekan Alignment is presented in dialogue with the work of Pinot Gallizio Industrial Painting, from 1985. As an artist and situationist member, Gallizio tried to subvert the capitalist commodification of everyday life. This work was intended to adapt to mechanized manufacturing techniques to challenge established models for the production and distribution of art. This is a 174 meter painted canvas, rolled up. It was made using a low-tech pseudo-painting machine, simulating an industrial production, while maintaining the unique piece entity. Gallizio would then cut it into sections to be sold.