Description
Tochnit Aleph (TA176) 2026
(Available April 1st)
Edition of 250 copies
“El Llamado” is a performative work for solo or multiple voices, produced using whistles of varying sizes, materials, shapes, and cultural origins. It was commissioned by Maison des Arts Georges & Claude Pompidou. 2020. Its duration, format, and number of performers are adapted to the specific context of presentation.
“El Llamado (Der Aufruf)” is a fixed arrangement of this work, composed & realised for this publication. It includes a studio recording employing whistles sourced from Austria, Germany, Italy, China, Spain, Greece, Hong Kong, Portugal, France, India, Mexico, the United States, Poland, the Czech Republic, Russia, Japan, and Nepal, alongside a public-space activation performed by Yann Leguay at Saint-Cirq-Lapopie, France, in 2020.”
Mario de Vega (*1979) is a Mexican conceptual artist working in Berlin & Mexico City. His work overlaps relations between stability, failure, simulation and ambiguity with site-specific interventions, sound events, electronic devices, process-oriented projects and sculpture. Since 2020 he is professor for Sound-Art at the Kunsthochschule Kassel.
