A Horizontal Spin

‘Strategically place the palm of your hand on the chair, lean it at a 30° angle and spin it at a constant speed. Energetic turns, physically identical in time and pace, a motorised mantra which ever since I was young led me to a state of instantaneous calm, like a secret domestic exercise. Reviving this idea of the spinning chair as a gesture that expands and visualises the loop; repetition and concentration as the structural features of all melodies.’

Fito Conesa opens the second edition of the series The Chairs of Tàpies by returning to childhood, proposing a musical exercise of spinning based on the voice, with repetitive structures that are effectively the sonorous foundation for the unpredictable. Repetition as a background, where the temporal features that inhabit it arise naturally. Voice, spinning, song and movement. A gesture to musical practice which, from concrete music or sound performance, also celebrates space, the architectures that inhabit it and the sounds these spaces postulate.

This action features vocal collaborations from: Claudia Scheider, Erika Michie and Enrikson.

Fito Conesa has a degree in Fine Arts from the University of Barcelona. His work is found in museum collections, such as MACBA, and in institutional collections like Col·lecció Banc Sabadell and the University of Granada. Conesa’s work has been exhibited in various museums, art centres and festivals, including La Casa Encendida in Madrid, Matadero Madrid, CaixaForum and MACBA, amongst others.

In 2022 Conesa received the Alfonso X Prize (Región de Murcia) in the category of new media, and was awarded the Video Creation Prize, organised by the Visual Arts Spaces of Catalonia, the Santa Mònica art centre, the Catalan Ministry of Culture and Loop Festival.