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Vinyl presentation
Premier: Wednesday 5 May 2021
7pm
Participants: Efraín Rozas, Sergio Zevallos y Luis Alvarado
Published by proyectoamil & Buh Records in 2020
Limited Edition
proyectoamil
Lima
proyectoamil and Buh Records are pleased to announce the release of Sergio Zevallos – ATEM: Pieces for Actions and Installations (1999-2019), a 12” vinyl record dedicated to the artist’s sound work. This is the second installment of the album collection that brings together fundamental pieces by contemporary Peruvian artists who have used sound as an important part of their work.
The vinyl will be commented by Efraín Rozas, performer, composer, creator of software and robotics; the curator of the project Luis Alvarado and the artist Sergio Zevallos. In addition, Zevallos will present for the first time in Lima a video adaptation of one of the vinyl pieces as well as an unpublished sound piece.
Sergio Zevallos, a Peruvian artist based in Berlin, has been active since the 1980s when he was a member of the Chaclacayo Group, one of the most radical artist collectives in Peru, dedicated to performance art. Since then, Zevallos has been interested in composing his own soundtracks, writing scores with invented notation, working with the recitation of texts and recordings of people talking, elements that he later used as raw material for his compositions.
Zevallos’ work has developed in a multidisciplinary field, between drawing, performance, and sound art, with a clear interest in setting iconoclasm and nonsense against the languages of power. Sergio Zevallos – ATEM: Pieces for Actions and Installations (1999-2019) compiles, for the first time, works in the field of sound, both soundtracks for various performances such as “Fragmentos” and “Atem”, which are based on the montage of vocal sounds and noises, and “Cello”, a musical composition for that instrument. In them, dissonance alternates with melodic work and experimentation with loops and recordings. “CHTP No. 3” is a work akin to the experiences of sound poetry. “Callejón Oscuro”, on the other hand, documents the complex vocal sound textures achieved by Zevallos, in the manner of Radio Arte’s compositions, for his sound installation of the same name.
The release includes photos, drawings, and notes written by Zevallos himself.
