The Centro de Creación Contemporánea de Andalucía presents Cut-up Indeterminate Anthem (2018¿ongoing) by Libia Castro and Ólafur Ólafsson.

This performative installation consists of score-mobiles scattered throughout the space to be played by different instruments. The mobiles were made by cutting up musical scores of different anthems and randomly reassembling the fragments. The artists give a new performance at each venue, inviting local musicians to play the possible compositions. As a result, the installation acquires new mobiles or parts of them, made by adding the cut-up scores of anthems that represent the musicians¿ nationalities, if they are not already present.

As the artists explain, ¿In the manner of a `Frankenstein-score¿, the installation visually and audibly materializes compositions of sounds and music from those anthem fragments, rearranged into new and incomplete scores that are deconstructed, always indeterminate and constantly moving in preparation for the next performance.¿

Libia Castro & Ólafur Ólafsson have worked together since 1997. For years, they have lived in Berlin and Rotterdam (their current place of residence), and they regularly work in Reykjavik and Málaga. Their oeuvre is conceptual, informal, multidisciplinary, collaborative and marked by intense socio-political engagement. Over the years, they have joined activist groups and invited fellow artists, thinkers and different professionals and groups to work with them on projects that combine art and activism, creating elastic temporary collectives which they call DIT (Do It Together).

In 2021 they won the Icelandic Art Prize for their polyphonic demonstration/performance about Iceland¿s new constitution with the environmentalist-and-artist collective The Magic Team, begun in 2017 for the ongoing project In Search of Magic ¿ A Proposal for a New Constitution for the Republic of Iceland.

They represented Iceland at the 2011 Venice Biennale and have participated in other international art shows like the Havana Biennial (2003), Manifesta 7 (2008), the Liverpool Biennial (2012), the Biennale of Sydney (2014) and the 1st Autostrada Biennale in Prizren, Kosovo (2017).

Performance at the C3A in collaboration with musicians from the ¿Músico Ziryab¿ Professional Music Conservatory of Córdoba:

Antonio Párraga Manrubia. Cello
Francisco Rafael Díaz Parras. Vocals
Juan Tendero Rodríguez. Percussion
Julia Sáez Fernández-Conde. Saxophone
Mario Ortiz Jiménez. Trumpet
Martina Viana Camacho. Violin

** The installation resulting from the performance will be on view in the Black Box from 20 to 25 November during the centre¿s opening hours.