{"id":1251,"date":"2025-04-24T10:37:44","date_gmt":"2025-04-24T10:37:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/margaridamonteny.com\/?post_type=projects&p=1251"},"modified":"2026-09-28T18:25:47","modified_gmt":"2026-09-28T18:25:47","slug":"clamor","status":"publish","type":"projects","link":"https:\/\/margaridamonteny.com\/en\/projects\/clamor\/","title":{"rendered":"Clamor"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Clamor is a performative and essayistic\/installative project that emerges from the intersection between manual bell ringing and vertical rope, placing bell art in dialogue with contemporary artistic practices such as aerial acrobatics, movement, and experimental percussion. The project proposes a device for both physical and mechanical exploration inspired by systems of ropes, pulleys, and traction forces found in bell towers \u2014 a space where body, sound, and object mutually influence one another, in a continuous tension between gravity and suspension, impact and reverberation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Clamor does not seek to transcend the weight of the bell, but to inhabit it. Each attempt to move or strike it is a negotiation between body and structure. The cenical device \u2014 heavy, metallic, inflexible \u2014 confronts the organic vulnerability of the body that activates it, establishing a field of constant imbalance. It is within this unequal and asymmetrical regime of counterweight, impulse, and surrender that the performance is built, transforming effort and resistance into sound, rhythm, and presence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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