Melting Rust is a work influenced by the city of Victoria in Transylvania, Romania, which had been formerly at the forefront of petrochemicals, then ravaged by various accidents and explosions. Now nature takes back its rights and factories look like temples lost in the forest. People died, left and those who remain are unemployed. Colors, movements and music aim to suggest metaphors of hope, dreams, nature, and drama, either technological or personal.
It starts small and almost silent, then grows huge and tragic with different phases. It finishes in an intense despite quiet wedding between orange and turquoise. Colors appear with gradations in a subtle blurred way, while another matter (a sort of fog) cuts or covers them (or the space they move in). Grey, red and orange backgrounds dialogue with inner colors, mainly pink, green, blue, then red and orange (for the rust), organized as stains of tinted light around a black spot (a black or negative 3D light), magnificent, fascinating and sometimes almost terrifying. Musical movements inspired by morphing are disturbed by the sound of sharp blades and struck metals.
Audiovisual performance
30 minutes
Created at Victoria, Transylvania (Romania), August 23rd 2019
Anne-Sarah LE MEUR
real time 3D image
Jean-Jacques BIRGÉ
musical improvisation on keyboard