Selected work by Barbara Held and Francesca Llopis

 

Gotescauen 2007, 8'

(demo 3'44")

A symbolic cycle of water and flowers in the manner of a still life.

Video installation with Jaume Sisa, voice. Presented at LOOP Festival 2007, Barcelona

S.T. 2009, 6'54"


Presented as part of Audio-Visions, a program of video and sound work by Katherine Liberovskaya, Ursula Scherrer, Phill Niblock, Anne Wellmer, Noemi Sjoberg, Francesca Llopis and Barbara Held, LOOP Festival 2009, Espai Ubu, Barcelona.

6.4.89 Tiananmen

A site-specific installation in the aftermath of the events in Tiananmen Square, inspired by a bus cemetery in Hospitalet, periphery of Barcelona.  The sound was a collage of four independently repeating simultaneously played tapes, using four car stereo players and outdoor public address speakers.  The musical material included Chinese classical music, Wu Zu “An Ambush on All Sides”, Chinatown pop, Chinese folk songs, original material based on ancient score notations (Barbara Held, flute), The Internationale, Beethoven “Ode to Joy”.