José Luis Vicario is a sculptor, poet, and researcher at the University of Granada, Spain. Vicario took part in Series 1 of The Long Minute with his piece ‘A Taste of Spring’.

In the artist’s words: “Each shout, each bell, each bang, each summer, and each flower may be distinct, but they are all similar. We find the variation in things that are repeated. This work deals with forms and how the passage of time may alter our emotional reactions to them.

I present all the changes necessary in a construction in order to reach a definitive result. It continues to change with each viewing: Repeated, but different. The mouth of the performer was able to serve for singing, eating, kissing, or as a container for a wild flower cut along the road. The actor is faced with the abstraction of a form. The circles of the polka dots are ornaments, notes, or holes. The images show intentions and possibilities. The sketches are silhouettes of his tongue or of a song or of a vase, while his mouth continues being the mouth of the vase that expresses a lament.”

Concept & Creation | José Luis Vicario
Performer | Jon Charnas
Sound | Dereck van Bulcke & José Luis Vicario
Curator of The Long Minute | Bronwyn Lace