Propagation is a feminine noun, defined as: communication by contagion, act or effect of propagating, reproduction of a living being (and its diffusion in an environment), mode of transmission of light and sound. It is about a hyperbole, an exaggerated vision of the potential of sound to generate movement and with it an illusion of life. It is like the Waters of March, a promise, a potential becoming It is about seeds of light, projected on tracing paper, vibrant.

#6Propagação is a creation that is part of a collection of pieces, entitled “Dança de Materiais Inertes” [DMI], which has been developed by the artist duo Marta Cerqueira and Simão Costa, dancer-choreographer and pianist-composer, respectively. The two artists, who simultaneously develop individual work, with vast experience at national and international level, take as their starting point the body on stage, dance and music, opening up a transdisciplinary spectrum, sometimes in an approach to the visual arts, transforming research in the field of performing arts into installation/exhibition formats.

This is an immersive audiovisual installation, with a video projection on tracing paper that functions as a projection screen.
The video projection on this material works on both sides of the paper, allowing the viewing of the video content from both sides and/or from any point in the room.

This allows the audience to move freely around the installation space, namely passing through the screen itself, since it is spatially offset. While a frontal view gives the illusion of a two-dimensional screen, other viewing positions allow the viewer to observe a screen suspended in parts, allowing the audience to move around in between.

The acoustic space is dense and filled, evoking a condition of introspection/contemplation/individual trance that accompanies the viewing.
Image and sound propagate throughout the exhibition space and spread to the ears and bodies of the visitors. This installation evokes geological processes, as if we could imagine the passage of millions of years before our eyes. Through a video projected onto sheets of tracing paper suspended in space, the images have as their main “characters” seeds that vibrate and jump, also stimulated by sound.