Ganma

(General Abstract furNiture for Multiset Manipulation)

Site-specific project for the exhibition "Interventions 4" curated by the artist Isidro Blasco in the Grisa House, 14-16 de july 2017, Sabiote, Spain.

Exhibited in "Furnishing temporalities / Sequencing spaces",_2B Space to be, Jan-Feb 18.

Table, armchair and kaleidoscope. Wood, metal tube lacquered in white and polystyrene mirror. Audiovisual installation. House-appliances white noise, black and white, 15'.

Performance by Luis Amália, 2'15".

Consisting in a single-member table, bench, window-caleidoscope and a white-noise video of household appliances - collected online and for relaxation purposes- GANMA is conceived as a mental and physical space formed by sounds, objects and routines that overlaps and confronts the context of the Grisa House, a village house of the 19th century, to the present time.

The performer Luis Amália works on it generating, in his words, "a series of postcards... showing the expected routine of use and also including other routines (perverted) born out of the ordinary or the space itself... It is important the amalgam/doodle factor, close to hodgepodge, but not too much. It is important to reflect also those vulgar moments of everyday life"

The main feature of GANMA is the free interaction between its four elements, the user and the space. The relationship between them is described as collections of pairs (reaction condition, action), in which the order of combination is ignored; but where multiplicity is especially significant. There is no restriction on how elements should be manipulated, allowing the context of place and the intuition of the user to be implicitly and naturally expressed.