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The Construction

 

The construction is a performative- interactive proposal for two performers, 16 boxes and a device. A performance about what we build, about the products of the excess and the persistance of attempting. Persisting in attempting is, in these times of foamig structure, an act of courage. At the end of the performance, when the lights are switched on, we can play the game of building our city all together.

The construction is part of a series of pieces that research the connection between architecture, body and technology through the building process. This piece consists of two parts: a performative one with two performers and an interactive one which includes audiovisuals and the audience’s participation.

P E R F O R M A N C E

Choreografic practice focuses on assembling and dismantling. The body keeps busy by doing and undoing. The tools are: action scores, stating and remembering, dialogue with objects and their nature, dialogue between the performers, the construction-deconstruction of the body and the opening of abstract spaces to becompleted by the audience’s imagination.

I N S T A L L A T I O N

The installation remains as a landscape of boxes. The audience are invited to walk through them. The boxes are also used as a screen for a video projection. The projection is a streaming video recorded and shown in real time with a five- second delay. As they walk, they interact with the images projected. A playful atmosphere is created where people discuss the displacement and move within the device.

Artistic and Technical Data

Performers _Janet Parra y Esther Rodríguez-Barbero

Artistic assistance_Maite Larrañeta, Mar López,

Operator _Jesús Labandeiro

Coproduced by _DT Espacio Escénico 

Voice Over_ Gema Cañón

Song _’Diamonds’Rihana

Length_45’

Supported by:

Huarte Contemporary Arts Center

DT Espacio Escénico

2024  Platform. *SEROCÉANO: ELECTROMAGNETIC ORGANS
Performace-Lab *SILVER BEASTS SHINE WHERE THE HORIZON BENDS
Site - Performance. *TEMPLE

Site - Perf. A DANCE FOR THE E-SPIRITS. A LETTER TO THE PLACE. A CHANT FO THE LIVING 
Site - Action.
 *OFRENDA 
Research. *TEKNETOOLBOX
2023 | Site-Perf. *CIBORGMÍSTICA: ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES
Performance. *WE CAN DANCE 3.0
Site - Action. 
RUMOUR LAYERS. PILGRIMAGE IN HONOUR OF THE DEAD
2022 | Performance-Installation. *THE RUINS. AN ESSAY ABOUT POSSIBILITY 
Site-Lab. *TALES FROM THE LAKE HOUSE
Encounter-Lab. INVOCATION OF THE BODIES AND ORGANS TO COME
Site-Lab. INTERFERENCES. SPACES UNDER CONSTRUCTION
Site-Lab. MOVING WITH THE INSTITUTION
Site-Lab. TRANSITING SPACE THROUGH THE BODY

​2021 Performance-Installation*ALLÁ
  Installation. *DO BODIES DREAM OF ELECTROMAGNETIC ORGANS?
Performance. *THE UNKNOWING MACHINE
Site&Sound *FROM UP HERE THE ROOFTOPS OF MADRID REMIND ME OF MY HOMETOWN
Artistic Practice Exchage Program Co-Curator. CRUSH
2020Site&Sound *P.A.S.E.  A CHOREOGRPHIC TOUR
SiteDANCING IN THE RUINS (OF TECHNO)
Laboratory. *WE (STILL) CAN DANCE
Practice-Laboratory. *INVOCATIONS
Texts-action. *I DON'T KNOW

Installation-Publication. *BODY MESSAGES
2019Performance. *WE CAN DANCE
 Site. *GUIDED TOUR. LCE
Site. *BEATS & SWEAT . A TRIBUTE TO SIR HENRY'S

Performance. *AFFECT
2018 | Book *MANUAL: ON WAYS TO INHABIT THIS TABLE & OTHER ISSUES
2017Research. *THE CONSTRUCTION OF PERFORMATIVE SPACE 
Site - Performance. *GUIDED TOUR
2010-2016*Previous Works

Esther
Rodriguez - Barbero

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