They Are Here Now
Standing before the audience in Nike Cortez shoes, a text was read that moved from the marabou stork to Hernán Cortés’ conquest of the Aztec empire, to chocolate exports, to the shoe’s launch in ‘Sail-Cacao-Wow-White’, to a grandfather’s upbringing in Småland. After each paragraph, a word was repeated; after each new paragraph, another word was added. When the reading ended, the choir — hidden in the audience — began to sing the collected words in an improvisation, gradually reducing them. The last word sung was ‘WORD’.
They Are Here Now
Standing before the audience in Nike Cortez shoes, a text was read that moved from the marabou stork to Hernán Cortés’ conquest of the Aztec empire, to chocolate exports, to the shoe’s launch in ‘Sail-Cacao-Wow-White’, to a grandfather’s upbringing in Småland. After each paragraph, a word was repeated; after each new paragraph, another word was added. When the reading ended, the choir — hidden in the audience — began to sing the collected words in an improvisation, gradually reducing them. The last word sung was ‘WORD’.
