Asnamus (Hommage to Sergey Parajanov)
The most important thing is the frame.
The films of Parajanov are fantastic assemblages of images, sounds, hermetical actions.
The power of imagination can trasmutate also “garbage”.
The magic of collage.
Great surrealistic polyphonies (almost kitsch and almost sacred), beyond traditional logic.
Sergei Parajanov besides Kurt Schwitters, Giuseppe Zevola, Pierre Schaeffer and other eccentricities.
Étrangeté…
Ainara López about the performance “Intervention on memory”:
This improvisation is part of a work in progress project called “Cartographies of the souvenir” where I do create poetic maps of my own memories by reappropiating someone else’s ones.
This time I came to Armenia to research on Parajanov, the great maestro I have been so fascinated with since years. By wandering the streets of Yerevan, by hearing different stories, by meeting his memories, I am able to explore old souvenirs that come through the souvenirs from others. Souvenirs linked to spaces, to desire, to magic, to death and life…
This improvisation which I would like to entitle “Nigyar” or the “Loss” is also about my own relation to what I deeply loved and one day dissapeared.
What remains of the past?
Traces in space, invisible sparks of light, the shadows of old ancestors…
Cooperation with the State Philharmonia of Armenia and Sergej Parajanov Museum in Yerevan
Related links:
https://soundcloud.com/theatrumphonosophicum/paradjanov-in-progress#t=0:01
https://babajanyanhall.org/en/event/ainara-lopez-theatrum-phonosophicum/
https://www.laciedetasoeur.com/nigyar-or-the-loss/