Purpose Sound, 2022

Video selected for FUSO 2022

In turn, several soap bubbles enter a public space in which there is a microphone. This is where they are allowed to shine, where they can be admired and "heard", but the only thing we will hear is their ending. Their durability is brief and fleeting, and the space becomes empty again, without messages. Those who do reach these spaces, and who have some kind of exposure, may use it for a purpose, but in most cases, in the mid or short term, their message will be ephemeral and irrelevant to their actions. This uncontrollable performance of varying durations is meant to make you realize that, just like these bubbles, everyone moves in different ways in a public space. In the eyes of the spectator all these interventions will have a guaranteed end. More important than their trajectory up to that point, is knowing when they will end, and how the next bubbles will behave when they reach this public space, always assuming that they all share the same purpose: to burst.


Mark