Ambush #2: Marc Vives

TO MOVE WALLS takes as a starting point the construction of the new facilities of EINA Bosc, the unresolved design and the unpredictable uses of a building that awaits its opening and becoming operational in the near future. This ignites a series of exercises, tests, explorations, and processes of listening, as well as a certain receptivity which, in search for its materials and positions, aims at redefining the body and the wall—their common architecture. Perhaps, it is an exchange of roles.

“An experiment is proposed to make our bodies and voices be the walls and define the spaces of the new school. In their vibrational nature, these walls are mobile and they move with other vibrations added later on.”

Upon this initial formulation by the artist Marc Vives, a group initially formed by about ten people carries out the first operations to the rhythm of construction and demolition of the building, during a period spanning between May and September 2021. The group, finally formed by Irene Alcázar, Daniel Cardona, Pepe Nerín and Bet Pahissa, consolidates and shrinks as it becomes more and more absorbed by the site. The search, which is both performative and sculptural, ends up being translated into a sort of script for a ceremony or a liturgy without a cult, publicly presented in September 2021.