elephanx & EL LORO hafez trad perf MM & contrecube (artworks by MM)

elephanx & EL LORO hafez trad perf MM & contrecube (artworks by MM)


this video performs views on MM latest pencils on paper with memory figures of friendship and love


the audios are two performative translations (the first from Kalidasa's Kumarasambhava and the second from a ghazal by Hafez de Chiraz, following the definition of performative translation, no previous conscient work on the particular text, infusion in the dream of the author through the beat of pulse and by identification as it is explained by MM himself)


Kumarasambhava tells the union of the girl with the god, she is the daughter of an ascetic master and he is the god of solitude and robbers, Shiva (the poet, Kalidasa, worked in bengali and sanskrit but the edition used is one of the spanish translations, noises are turned to sound by contrecube at his kitchen - we hear steam of cooking beans and I play myself a plastic cheap trumpet made in China, other times i have used English translations of Kalidasa by Chandra Rajan that I consider very good )


Hafez's ghazals are still influent as a form of writing and spelling, specially to musicians and other people concerned by courtoisie (the French edition has permitted to rewrite mentally at the first hearing of rythmical base set one single time by Contrecube at his studio)


there is a last audio sounding by MM made in 2011 titled La voix de Marchena, because of an experience on surrealistic radiophonic quotations on garbage philosophy inspired by the Spanish translator of Lucretius' Rerum Natura and Sade's Justine, and revolutionary agitator under 1789's French Revolution and opinions are left as laconic observations of History's nature


the bull's head is a reference to the minotaur as emblematic of the painter as a polygamous figure (Giulio Camilo set minotaur as memory path to brothels and the arts of vice) as it is told since MM's first long film (2014's "Mille Vaches, récit d'un contre-charme") and chief representation of mad-centered labyrinth of life as the proper Granada old red gypsy quarter where artworks are depicted


elephanx & EL LORO hafez trad perf MM & contrecube (artworks by MM)