Daniel Toca

– Casa Wabi 2015

Community Project

Daniel Toca gave a practical workshop to the students of COBAO Río Grande for sound appreciation and later to map the sound landscape of the area. Through blind walks, Toca sought to complicate the way of experiencing reality by abolishing the predominance of the visual and emphasizing the sound environment in public space. Finally, a series of individual sound maps based on the sound landscape of Rio Grande where produced.

Log-Piece

For the Birds (2015)
Handmade book, 44 pages
14.5 × 21 cm

Mexico

Daniel Toca conceived the literary essay as an artist, not as a writer. The border between his essays and his plastic work has been gradually eroded to understand the literary essay as a plane of consistency, as a model, as a spatial order, –sometimes geometric, sometimes purely poetic–, as an ancient writing, a pure writing composed by mazes, by investigations about the parallelism, the simultaneity that exists between literature, philosophy, theology… His essays-models finds echoes in musical structures that are revealed in writing and how they refer to an idea of time that Daniel Toca spun into a fabric, in which he discusses the dimensions or stories about it. A musical concept or a fiction involves a philosophical position, that position is a precise space that does not fit in the text, transforming it into a sculptural or architectonic material, that warns, even on a secret score, a rhythm, a personal infinite.

– Lauro López Sánchez
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