F.0 & Your Name. The Signature Meditation
Vinko Globokar's F.0 is ?Corporel, the title of the piece. Pauline Oliveros' XXV - Your Name. The Signature Meditation invites dwelling on one's own name by visualising it and, at last, signing it backwards, forwards, upside down or inside out. In this fragment, the name I dwelt on is '?Corporel'. I then signed it on a transparent sheet of paper placed on an overhead projector. Using a pair of contact microphones, I recorded the sounds produced by the act of writing '?Corporel' with one hand, with the other, with both hands at the same time and in different directions, with the aim of foreground the sounds of the word. Alongside the transparent sheets resulting from the past performances as well as my own 'left-hand-practising-sheets', this fragment can be presented both as a video recording and a live performance. I recorded this fragment in the Herman-Markus-Preßl-Saal, (KUG) Graz, on the 28th of March 2024 with the support of Alisa Kobzar and Artem Rybchenko (camera and light setting).
This documentation presents the Globokar-Oliveros pairing (1), selected exercise sheets used to train my left-hand writing (2,3), and artistic outcomes from performances of the fragment on various occasions (4-7). Some of the transparent sheets were also written on by audience members, who engaged playfully with the setup.