Xavier Lopez Performance #9: Cacophany Anodine 1+2 - Greenwood Collective, La Cocina First Latinx Performance Art Festival

Cacophany Anodyne has so far been performed twice, once at the Greenwood Collective, where it had its innaugural performance in, I believe 2015 and later in August of 2016 as part of the opening performance at On the Edge: (First) Latinx Performance Festival.  The idea behind this performance began from a simple drawing and was called either Easy Listening or Uneasy Listening--but later evolved in Cacophany Anodyne, for some reason, I'm not sure.  The idea was simple--I had always wanted to fill a room with sound--a cacophany made out of something completely inoccuous, something pretty and banal turned into something loud and rauccous--even overwhelming, like when a band prepares for a concert. 

My work had always had an element of sound, such as in one of the first Dum Dum Boy Art Exhibitions, where I deconstructed the sounds from a Kate Bush Album, "Running Up That Hill,"  focusing on the track entitled "Waking the Witch."  

 Another sound piece, this time sculptural was titled "Antigone and Creon: Angels and Beasts"  and dealt with the impossibility of communication and how when the truth is spoken sometimes it is impossible for humans to understand as it is spoken in the language of angels and animals. 

Cacophany Anodyne was part of the opening to my piece for the Latinx Performance Art Festival 2016, part of both La Sala's La Cocina Pop Up and that Year's Art Fair.