In the context of Festival Flores y Jardines, the performance Flor Mecánica, by Carlos Amorales, recreates a space surrounded by sensorial stimuli that activate the cultural imagination around the floripond. Based on the spiral shape of the flower, Amorales created with twenty-four doors representing the cycle of the day. On each is a mask of Janus, the Roman god of gates, beginnings, and endings. Six floripond trees planted in pots representing faces with closed eyes surround the space. The closed gaze evokes the mystical and psychedelic spirit of datura in the whole artistic experience. The performance suggests a reflection on our millenary cult of hallucinogenic plants and how we relate to the perception of continuity and discontinuity of time in our current social and cultural practices.
For the four days of the event, there is a collaboration with master potter José García Antonio, a blind artist, and trumpeter Jacob Wick with his band. Wick's specially written piece for brass winds will be performed inside the art work as the sun sets. Wick proposed an antiphonal musical form, a performance style in which two groups of musicians play musical phrases alternately. The music will play with the architectural construction and the way the sound bounces around the pavilion spaces. Flor Mecánica is part of the artist's ongoing transdisciplinary research into the relationship between contemporary art and diverse cultural practices. The duration of this performance is 40 minutes.
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Parque Lincoln, Mexico City
April 3: 12 and 6:15 pm
April 4 — 6: 6:15 pm