Verse by Ida Sophia.

Perpetual actions of vain hope drive the durational live performance VERSE. In this performance, the artist’s repetitious circumambulation and spoken word enacted the idea that textual recall, combined with action, to revise emotional associations to memory; reminding us that no feeling is Final. This work involved a live, improvised response to the 6hr durational performance by the artist accompanied by studio voice recordings of call-and-response adapted from passages from a work by Rainer Maria Rilkeand. I also created a composition for Cello which was also performed live.

For more information and to view the work visit Ida Sophia’s website.