Cutting The Stone

In her 1968 work Extracting the Stone of Madness, Argentine writer Alejandra Pizarnik drew from a Hieronymus Bosch painting depicting the medieval process of trepanning, using a compact unflinching quality of language to try to excise her own existential malaise. 
 

This performance animates the same fragmentation of form and hypnotic delirium found in the minimalist palette of her words. Blending voice, electronics, flute and strings, the composition was written in an exchange by artists based between Ireland and Berlin.

Supported by: the Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon and Dublin Fringe Festival X field:arts.

Image Credit: Simon Lazewski