This project started off with the idea of dedicating much of my time and attention to a series of dance-related activities for about a year. Back then, I was interested in the particular value that I could find by carrying out activities that would require a considerable effort, but with an ambiguously relevant outcome or not easy to quantify. I would have rarely involved myself in dancing; my faulty sense of rhythm, but most of all my shyness, would have kept me away from it.
Once I got involved in the project, my ideas about the initial proposal changed little by little; this self-imposed obsession was no longer there. Without even noticing, dancing was in many cases the first link I had with new cities where I found myself and those moments meant a watershed in my relationship with the place as I built my first friendships for example. Therefore, Horse gained an almost ritualistic character where the movement of my body determined the relationship to those new places. Sometimes, when I feel like it, I draw those places where I remember having danced.
The title of the project comes from an expression used in dancing marathons during the 1930s in the United States. That’s what any competitor who reached 500 hours of dancing non-stop was called.
Pencil on paper. 21 x 29.7 cm each.
Work in progress started in 2006
Miquel Casablancas Award, Barcelona, 2006