It was a good decision to sleep in the higher meadow since Nicolas who slept in a hammock had a pool of water under his ‘bed’.
The night was cold for everyone, but soon as the morning sun climbs over the mountain it’s immediately hot. We discuss in the morning with some help of a few villagers (with a young daughter that speaks English) how we’ll organise our day. Theun needs to get to the only train station in the area at Guarda, still 127km away. In Guarda Various Artists arrived yesterday and is waiting to join the group. We decide to bike to Murca 30km further and see from there how to continue.
The 3km we went down yesterday, we have to go up again. The road is unpaved and steep, so we have to walk all the way up until we get to a paved road. The sun is already burning at 11 in the morning and it takes us two hours for the 15km upwards to the first village on the way to Murca (called Jou). Some of us get some refreshments and sugar before continuing further.
In Murca we take a good lunch and find a way to continue to Guarda with the help of Jose. It’s weird to see the landscape pass that fast.. Around 21:00 we arrive in Guarda, the highest city of Portugal at 1000m. Various Artists did some exercise today and biked to the fold and back to collect ware for his project on the Fold.
We find a place to stay in Pensao Allianz and then go to a local restaurant VA discovered yesterday. It’s the owners birthday so the whole family trickles in. After dinner we celebrate the coming of VA in a fancy bar called Praca. We all hope the cachaca won’t affect our performance tomorrow..
Cycloramadrome is a project where the spectators can interact with work in an immersive ambient environment. Exploiting the technology of 360-degree projection developed in the 50s, Alexandra uses aspects of the surrounding environment as a vehicle for impacting the audience both mentally and physically: the movements of the characters are designed to trigger the movement of the audience.
Alexandra uses modern technology to explore the complexity of common behavioural patterns as well as the public’s “iconophilia”, or constant manic love for images.
Cycloramadrome is een project waarbij toeschouwers interageren met werk in een meeslepende ambiente omgeving. Door het gebruik van 360-graden projectie, technologie ontwikkeld in de jaren ’50, gebruikt Alexandra aspecten van de omgeving om het publiek zowel mentaal als fysiek te beïnvloeden: de bewegingen van de personages in de installatie zijn ontworpen om de beweging van het publiek te leiden.
Alexandra maakt gebruik van moderne technologie om de complexiteit van gemeenschappelijke gedragspatronen, alsook “iconophilia” (onze manische liefde voor beelden) van vandaag te verkennen.
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