MAREAL 2011 UNFOLD – Performative Envelope Piece Work in Progress Juliana Herrero: Motion’s Form | Ivana Reyero: Form’s Motion Statement | Progression During the performance, we incorporated an audio excerpt of a text by Jacques Derrida, sourced from YouTube (found footage), referencing The Monolingualism of the Other. Derrida, born in El Biar and raised in Algeria, then a French colony, spoke a mother tongue that was neither entirely his own nor simply an adopted language. His reflections on fractured identity and deferred belonging resonate with the piece’s exploration of temperament — shifting between calm and wild — and the fluid nature of transformation. Dance, in this work, unfolds space as an envelope of mutable self-reflections, where movement becomes a language beyond speech. Forms emerge, dissolve, resemble, and differentiate — their meanings shaped through what they are not, and constantly deferred toward other possibilities. The piece deconstructs traditional boundaries between mind and body, treating thought and movement not as separate realms but as entangled, co-creating forces. An ethereal structure frames this interplay: a large triangulated foil mirror surface, assembled with varying densities across its triangulation. Beautifully articulated and held together with tape, this reflective skin becomes a living envelope — a shifting architecture within which the body interacts with its material counterparts: sculptural forms, fabric, inert matter. Within this glimmering, folding space, the dance weaves its magic — folding and unfolding itself into transient configurations of difference and resonance. Concept / Idea: Juliana Herrero

Acoustic Cloud Remix 2011 Spatial installation Wood, acoustic foam, duct tape, ropes, steel columns, mirror foil, speakers, looped soundtrack Variable Size, about 700cm x 300 cm “The visual imaginary space in which an exploded view is made possible is in- finitely distant from the way any VW Beetle inhabits the world — or, rather, the cosmos. In other words, whereas res extensa is a way to draw technical parts side by side, those parts themselves do not assemble or gather or survive as if they were “in” res extensa or “made of ” matter.” (1) This spatial installation is approaching nature and its enclosure as an artefact to be explored. The acoustic cloud unfolds into an endless soundscape, turned upside down, mirroring and echoing mixed realities. The geometry of the cloud can be read as a structure of chaos in which the minimal unit is constituted by an equilateral triangle and its multiple subdivisions – considered the basic geometrical figure by the ancient Greek mathematicians. This flexible and artic- ulated structure absorbs sound while it is also an emitter. A sound composition transmitted through small speakers interferes with the ambient level of noise that is being partially absorbed: a mixture of recordings of the street and the studio is combined with other natural and artificial acoustic vibrations. Within the sound waves and the spatial configuration a physical system at the borders of control and non-control is created. This allows variations of sequential folds and densities, creating a dynamic spatial expression that encloses space within the space and deals with the ‘inside – outside’ paradox. (1) Bruno Latour, “Can We Get Our Materialism Back, Please?” in: Isis 98, 2007, p.140, online source.

mirrored nature [or] I will be your mirror  2010 Series of performative temporal interventions in the Augarten; Wood, duct tape, mirror foil [I will be your mirror] ​ Statement I Progression ​ Unfolding figures in the urban gardens of the city of Vienna through consecutive sets. A triangulated wooden surface with mirror foil. Assembled in multiple forms mirroring the public urban landscape.