El Llamado
Whistles, instructions
2020

Commissioned by Maison des Arts Georges & Claude Pompidou
Centre D’Art Contemporain
Résidences Internacionales D’Artistes


Martine Michard
Yann Leguay
Kata Królikowska

El Llamado is a performative work for solo or multiple voices. Its duration, format and number of performers are adapted according to the context where the work is exhibited, produced with whistles of different sizes, cultural backgrounds, materials and shapes to acoustically explore the landscape and the architectural qualities of the location.

In 2020, for the exhibition Sol Infini curated by Martine Michard, without public announcement, during the exhibition period, a solo performer activated one whistle for 60 minutes every day at Saint-Cirq-Lapopie in southwestern France, offering an unexpected and incidental encounter in a highly visited touristic location.

In the same context, through an amplification system discreetly installed in four points of the village, recordings made with a selection of whistles were amplified 24 hours a day. A sound installation in public space that offers an ambiguous situation to question the verisimilitude of what is heard.

For the production of this work, whistles have been acquired in Austria, Germany, Italy, China, Spain, Greece, Hong Kong, Portugal, France, India, Mexico, United States, Poland, Czech Republic, Russia, Japan and Nepal.

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