Team leaders: Nacho Correa, Paco Hernández, Santiago Vera, Rosina Secondi, (Agustín Dieste)
Team: Nicolás Benjamín Boscoboinik, Vanja Ivkovic, Yara Samaha, Guo Changtao, Zgólay Regina
This Uruguayan quartet have a strong heritage of Carnival within their culture, and that has inspired their project this year. Uruguay has the longest Carnival period in the world, where music and processions play prominent roles. Candombe is unique to Uruguay, an offshoot of African drum music that was cultivated by the slaves that were once a part of Uruguayan society and has since grown to become an integral part of the country’s culture. With this at its heart, the concept of a giant drum was born, built as a mechanism that will reproduce the sound of the three drums that are a part of Candombe music. Crucially, the giant pair of wheels will be operated by two ‘drummers’ on either side of the wheel; neither can see one another though, highlighting the connectedness that comes from being a part of a community due to the need to blindly cooperate for the drum wheel to function properly.
Photos: Zsuzsa Darab, Tamás Bujnovszky