Summary
The multiple walls of the screening room for Aqu, Miguel Angel Ros' five-channel video, slope inward toward an open ceiling, and from the outside, the room looks like a giant barnacle or a tiny volcano in the middle of EVO Gallery. From inside the installation, the screens nearly surround the viewer, making it impossible to see all the action in the film at once. Clearly, to watch Aqu, observers have to spin and twirl.
Aqu's on-screen "stars" are spinning tops, each painted either white or black. In Aqu's opening moments, black tops balance and spin in a simple symmetrical pattern that evokes lines of sugarplum fairies balancing on their toes. One white top swoops behind the blacks, moving from screen to screen while it circles the room.See the full content of this document
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Top of the World
The hum of vibrating tops is surprisingly soothing. The pounding rhythm of more tops landing on a hollow wooden platform suggests the clapping and stomping of flamenco. Ros' muffled voice repeating "aqu" adds to that allusion. The...
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