About this event
Belgian porphyry cobblestones were hand-carved until the 1970s by the cayoteux, quarry workers from Quenast, Bierghes and Lessines. Mechanization made that manual labour obsolete: today, crushers and screens metabolize the landscape at a continuous pace, grinding the magmatic column that cooled 420 million years ago into new mountains of crushed stone. Drawing on a period of observation in Brussels and the quarries of Wallonia during her residency at Q-O2, Florencia Curci explores the hand's gesture upon stone as a bodily limit to the transformation of nature. As the end of her residency, she will present a sequence of pieces for voices, hands, stones, microphones, field recordings and speakers. Florencia Curci is a sound artist, researcher and curator working between experimental radio, sound art and territorial inquiry.