ÉTER
Performance Art Installation
“A subtle substance where light dances into visibility.”
Concept, artistic, and technical direction: Leni Méndez and Emilio Cordero Checa
Performers: Lorea Ibarrondo and Andrés Cortés
Sound design: Insomnia
Production: OopArt (ArteFactos Fuera de Lugar) and La Fundición Bilbao, with technical support from the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU)
Venue: La Fundición, Bilbao, Spain
Year: 2018
ÉTER is a performance installation that explores the threshold between the visible and the invisible through infrared light. The performers move in complete darkness while infrared cameras capture their actions. Audience members are guided one by one to a television—the only medium through which the live performance can be seen.
Bringing together body and machine, the physical and the virtual, light and shadow, the work creates an intimate sensory experience in which sound becomes a guide and the invisible becomes perceptible.
