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choreographies of the impossible
35th bienal de são paulo, 2023. Catalogue. Eds: Diane Lima, Grada Kilomba, Hélio Menezes, Manuel Borja-Villel. Texts in Catalogue and Guide about the work of: Textos en Catálogo y Guía sobre el trabajo de: Bouchra Ouizguen: p. 78 (catálogo) and 47 (guía) Maya Deren: p. 202 and 161 Niño de Elche: p. 226 and 177…
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The Presences and Doings of María Teresa Hincapié
In María Teresa Hincapié. If This Were a Beginning of Infinity, Turner – MACBA (Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona) – MAM (Museo de Arte Moderno de Medellín, Barcelona y Medellín, 2022, pp. 42-66. ISBN: 978-84-18895-67-8 This essay explores the form of theatre at the heart of María Teresa Hincapié’s artistic practice. It considers the context and genealogies,…
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Variation on The Unaccounted: A Triptych, by Mapa Teatro
Die un- / bestatteten, un gezählt, droben, die Kinder, sind absprungbereit.…
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The Bodies of Others
Available in English for the first time, The Bodies of Others investigates, through a series of close readings of several theatrical and film productions in Europe and South America, the relationship between “representation” (including theatrical representation) and ethics (defined as an ongoing relational negotiation, as opposed to a set of universal moral laws).
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Presence and disappearance
The empty stage was understood as the place for the actor’s appearance at a time when appearing was a condition of acting. Presence, and not emptiness, constituted the central value in the conception of artistic theatricality. And the value of the presence was accentuated in the mid-twentieth century as a guarantee of authenticity and ethical…
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The Gold Crevice
Mapa Teatro’s latest fissure speaks of a faraway crevice that is still open today, a place of desire and exploitation, ingenuity and brutality, resistance and oblivion. Fiction is to the fissure what gunpowder is to the crevice: it cuts through the surface to make the hidden visible. The act itself produces a narrative that might…
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Poetic devices: dissidence and cooperation
The Argument I will make here will take two themes: crime and communal experience; both ideas spring from Juan Domínguez’s invitation to participate in a conspiracy. All conspiracy requires secrecy; this is necessary to ensure it can take place, since such an act involves allegiances and modes of behavior. We conspire to subvert the established…
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A theatre of the present
An essay on The Words of Others, byLeón Ferrari. Published in The Words of Others: León Ferrari and Rhetoric in Times of War, edited by Ruth Estévez, Agustín Diez Fischer and Miguel A. López, REDCAT / JRP-RINGIER, pp. 61-86. ISBN : 978-3037645086.
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Practising the real
An analysis of reality and ‘the real’ as presented in contemporary artistic creation, Practising the Real on the Contemporary Stage examines the responses given by performing arts to the importance placed on reality beyond representation. This book proposes four historic itineraries defined by the ways in which the issue of the real is addressed: the…
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Act, realize, manifest
You are probably reading this text trying to understand what I am trying to communicate, assuming that the words articulate thoughts that can illuminate, raise questions, provoke debates, and even — in an ideal situation — gives rise to dialogs or conversations. In this case you will be reading the text in silence, paying attention…
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The cabinet of events
A playful intervention. 11 cards inserted along the book: (a) The collector’s face, (q) Nautilus’ Memory, (e) Duchamp’s Suitcase, (r) Fake!, (g) The artist’s stomach, (y) I would prefer not to, (x) The most tatooed man in the world, (e) Mr. Disorder, (t) Memory machines, (d) With a loud voice, (z) Anonymous deaths.
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In-definitions. Forschung in der performativen Künsten (2013)
Das Forschen aller, 2013 Este texto es resultado de dos conversaciones mantenidas en Madrid, durante el mes de noviembre de 2011 por Victoria Pérez Royo, Cristina Blanco y José Antonio Sánchez. El objetivo fue plantear una reflexión sobre la investigación en artes partiendo de nuestra propia experiencia en el ámbito de la práctica artística, la…