April 10, 2013
Cinemateca Portuguesa
Lisbon, Portugal

Slide projection synchronised with sound

Emulation Play is a performative and audio-visual session developed by Musa paradisiaca as part of an expanded cycle of works combining live narration, sound composition and slide projection. The piece operates as a staged situation rather than a conventional film or performance, in which speech, image and temporal montage are activated as tools for constructing and displacing narrative.

The work is structured around a sequence of audio interventions accompanied by synchronised slides, forming a hybrid environment between lecture, performance and fictional assembly. Rather than illustrating a pre-existing story, the piece constructs meaning through accumulation, quotation and performative speech acts.

Developed in dialogue with earlier works in the same cycle, Emulation Play explores the conditions under which stories are assembled, transmitted and re-enacted. The performance foregrounds the instability of authorship and the permeability between documentation, fiction and staged presence.

Within this context, language operates less as a descriptive tool than as a material field of construction, where voice, projection and image generate shifting constellations of meaning. The slide format introduces a discontinuous temporality, reinforcing the sense of fragment, interruption and reconfiguration.

Rather than resolving into a linear narrative, the piece unfolds as a system of emulation: a process in which stories are not told once, but repeatedly re-performed, adjusted and re-authored through their own transmission.