The Free Scene
2017
The work considers questions of cultural survival in today’s climate of crisis and new social solidarity. Working with a group of participating performers, a series of movement strategies are enacted within the empty floors of the Tabacalera building in Madrid, a former factory squatted by local residents in response to the housing crisis. Through this speculative process, a scene is created that attempts to work through the potential of a collective imagination: to figure oneself as a body open to others and toward the crafting of a common city. Including experiments in group work, lonely walks, being and moving together, hiding out, speaking and listening, whispering, self-building and celebrating, the project is developed as a manifestation of self-organized processes and pirate imagination.
Recorded on video, the final installation operates as an experimental “tone poem” placed within the Gallery operating in the building. The installation is comprised of audio-visual projections situated within a construction of found and crafted materials, such as banners made during the filming and a series of drawings, or “maps of intensity”, notating the choreographic actions.
Part of the exhibition Aurality and Environment, La Tabacalera, Madrid and FASE
December 1, 2017 – February 4, 2018
Performers: Vicente Colomar, Fátima Cué, María Escobar, Antonio Gómez, Annie Pui Ling Lok, Catalina Mahecha, África Clúa Nieto / Videography: Jara Lopez
