2023
Make a wish is a piece that reveals the feedback that occurs between an addiction and a superstition. Paying attention (in this case) to the relationships that are generated between the numbers to make a wish, have an impact on us paying more and more attention and find more combinations that allow us to make wishes. This addiction to consulting is embodied by the mobile phone, which use reinforces many more superstitions, in turn. For the realization of the piece, I tried to further the idea of “making a wish” that many people around me did when they saw the number 11:11, extending in some cases to 22:22. So I decide to record all those times that I make wishes reaching periods of greater obsession and voluntary abstinence. All these relationships (apophenia) happens in our minds through verbal mechanisms, which are the ones that serve to justify why some combinations work for us and others don’t. Make a wish show up the verbal mechanisms susceptible to being poetic with whom a person justifies himself, his own decisions, and his own acts.
Carlos Alcántara
Spain
Carlos Alcántara (Chiclana de la Frontera, 1989) graduated in Modern Languages and Literature from the University of Granada. His work combines music (Tic Muay Thai, Nadie Canta), poetry and conceptual art. In 2022 he published ‘Esa locura nueva’ an album co-authored with people with disabilities. He has edited the object-book ‘Google Poems’ (Artefactos Nativos, 2020). In 2022 he is part of the Youth Art Show in La Rioja for ‘Democratic Poetry’, and awarded the Poetry prize MálagaCrea2022.