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Pastel y Vela

Cake and Candle

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Isabel León, Llorch Talavera

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“Cake and Candle” is part of the “Quarantine” series we decided to carry out during this period as a way to keep creative, active and have fun. All parts are developed on the same wall of Isabel’s studio. This action is No. 23 of this series of video performances mivi performed daily. Today we celebrate Llorch’s birthday, referring to some of the safety measures recommended in this pandemic: distancing and masks … This makes the act supposedly cheerful since blowing birthday candles becomes almost impossible, absurd and, above all, sad. This series follows the line of work that Isabel has been developing since 2016, making simple, minimal, everyday and absurd actions around one minute in duration, and making use of everyday materials. The main difference lies in that in this case the frequency is daily, rather than weekly, as well as being carried out collaboratively with fellow collaboartors Llorch Talavera.

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Risen Osiris

Osiris Risen

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Chrystian Tamayo Hernandez

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The arrival of a character from the underworld to any home.

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Disapplause

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Miguel Andrés

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Disapplause is about not seeing teh pandemic coming despite dozens of studies predicting a pandemic of this magnitude to which the WHO called disesae X in their reports. Let’s face it, all national and international bodies have fallen short on this. None of these countries reacted until they started seeing people people die. In this instance economic interests took precedence over public ones, and now we are involved in an almost post-apocalyptic socio economic and health care crisis. These systems have fallen short and seem to be governed by incompetent, ignorant, greedy, corrupt scavengers who will benefit from the ashes left. All of these leaders, governors and responsible white-collar workers deserve a great dis-applause. Dis-applause, dis-applause given their disastrous management of this pandemic and unworthy of a global society that thinks of itself and procaims itself “developed”.

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PANICO

PANIC

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Fina Ferrara

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To act irrationally, fear of famine and scarcity … irrationally and a desire to laugh when we discover what together we win.

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MI ESMALTE DE UÑAS

MY NAIL POLISH

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Jordina Ros

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The need to disappear into the aesthetics of beauty and the aesthetics of nature. Being locked up can generate internal conflicts. The value we place on superfluities simply turn against us but in favor of pure nature. Camouflaging ourselves in it is imperative.

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Breathe

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Fran Orallo

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The “Breathe” project consists of a videoperformace in which we juxtapose two contradictory and incompatible elements, such as smoking and surgical masks. I am establishing elements of the absurd, on play, and spontaneity, made using a simple and short-term action. The work is based on the crisis caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, hence the use of the mask, as a metaphor for protection. Symbolizing smoke contamination, infection, intoxication of the lungs produced by the virus, since smoking affects the body in a similar manner.

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#insônia

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Marcelle Seba

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Isolamento do corpo : na danca solitaria os sonhos vivem , angustiam o sono, o duplo que nos habita se encontra, a inconsciencia no contraste da sombra e luz , a busca inquieta do eu.

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Letargo

Lethargy

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Tuty Moreno Campos

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I realize performances so as to give a place to anemic states of being, to represent them, trangress them and if possible to transmute them. Faced with a society that pushes productivity above all else, there is a body that speaks to us that can become sick, and that we normaly ignore. I choose precarious elements in accordance with an equally precarious everyday existence, resulting in multiple pressures which become exhaustive. Lethargy puts us in a small place, where we feel the multiplicity and weight in our bodies.

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No quiero más videollamadas

A No more video calls

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Roma Vaquero Diaz

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In these two months of quarantine, the screens become sound skins. Virtual communication platforms brings us a multitude of invitations to participate in live videos, lectures, courses and loves online. Life quickly became minimized to screens and through it, ghostly images come in and out of my house. However, one does not feel the connection. The more video calls, more distance, more emptiness and more loneliness behind the monitor. I do not want any more video calls, I want future meetings where bodies rub together without fear of contagion.

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Sin nombre

No name

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Gere Granados

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This video is an approximation to represent in a poetic way, how I feel inside during this period of estrangement and shelter, in which we’ve had to resort more frequently to social networks and to digital media in general to have contact with nuestrxs queridxs and the world. This hyper connectivity has caused an increase in the content of information we receive and has personally kept me more time in front of a screen. In the video I use material from my Instagram feed and turn to the body to simulate the interaction I have with a mobile device during the day, recreating positions in which I find myself consuming information without a break.

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Oh Gloria inmarcesible

Oh unfading glory

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David Sebastian Lopez Restrepo

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Oh Unfading Glory is a performance video where I explore the role that violence played in the conception of the republic. In my performance I play the national anthem of Colombia while I burn toy soldiers on a small hot plate. In the performance I consider concepts such as history and Latin American narratives, and more especially Colombian nationalism.

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Camedor

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Angel Alado

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Dreams are perceived different in space where they appera, are bron, as much in public as in intimate spaces. What dreams cohabit in peoples desire when experiencing social coexistence in open spaces? What dreams emerge in the private space of houses under the sheets, in the bathroom, in the backyard? What do we yearn for, what do we want, where do we want to go? How far does contingency and confinement shape the size and shape of our dreams. Dreams are perceived differently in the space where they appear or are born, Both in public and intimate spaces. What dreams coexist in the desire of people experiencing social coexistence when When They in open spaces? What dreams I do emerge in the private space of the houses, under the sheets, at bathing time, in the backyard? What do we yearn for, what do we want, where do we want to go? How far do contingency and confinement times shape the size and shape of the dream?

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Fragile

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Roger Zi Chim

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Performance on the fragility of life as represented from the body as home, appearance that unites the internal with the external and resilient power.

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CONFINADO NO PUEDO RESPIRAR

CONFINED I CAN’T BREATHE

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Bairo Martínez

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CONFINED I CAN’T BREATHE / CONFINADO NO PUEDO RESPIRAR

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Pesadilla Recurrente

Recurring Nightmare

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Jessica Fairfax Hirst – Eliu Almonte

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At the beginning of the COVID pandemic, people in the US expressed their anxiety through mass buying of toilet paper where stores could not keep it in stock. People even fought for it in stores and parking lots. In addition to this, the incompetence, dishonesty and narcissism of President Trump made it all worse. In observing my native country from the other side of the Atlantic, I felt the inadequate leadership of the President was more suffocating than the physical quarantine. This performance represents my take on this recurring nightmare for my country.

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Uno con la casa

One house

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Sandra Ramírez – Roja Cuma

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One with one’s house experiences the threat of an invisible danger which stops the normal rhythm of time. The garden is our favorite place for isolation. Here we can engage in dialogue with nature and understand that, like snails, we are one with the house and the house is our body. Without our body we are headed for death, but plants and animals teach us that there is nothing to fear: death is a condition of life. Inhabiting our home-body is accepting its possibilities and its limits.

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MANIPULACIÓN

HANDLING

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Yolanda Benalba

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Control of the body through disciplinary methods ensures productivity and alienation. The power of the body is diminished politically under disciplinary systems, whose mechanisms are as Foucault “calculated manipulation of its elements, gestures, and their behavior.” Discipline being a tool of shaping bodies under obedience and docillity. From April 25 to June 3 I proposed to myself to take on a performance focusing on docility as recalled daily through my hand where I wrote ‘I lack discipline’. Over the days that followed I reaffirmed my satisfaction with being undisciplined so I decided to complete the performnace. Manipulation is the act of negation of that phrase and docility is action, using this concept one of my hands imposes an almost masturbatory force on the other hand.

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Ascepsia

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“johna” John Campo

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Putting on protective elements and keeping distance from others, distrusting even the contact of our body with the air “outside”, while in one way or another, we would like to free ourselves from hyper-sanitization, tear it, make it disappear.

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Todo comenzó con un cuento chino…

It all started with a Chinese story …

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Luis Fernando Arango Duarte

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It is an action by hero of the world bank SUPERBANK, where the character becomes increasingly close to humanity and their tragedy, making a radical decision in his existence: to betray the world banking dynasty and its father Rothschild, creator of banking and usury. The hero then declares himself in favor of humanity and to fight for it, against the consequences of the abuse of power, so manifest in the pandemic, enslaving everything human.

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HAMBRE SAGRADA

HUNGER SACRED

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Oscar Salamanca

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Sacred Hunger emerged as a challenge to link isolation, fear of contagion, military force and extreme vigilance.

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Ritual Visceral Memory

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Nikesha Breeze

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Ritual Visceral Memory/ Acts of Reclamation for the forgotten body. An installation of tenderness. A black body touched with care is revolution. Reclaiming our birthright cell by cell. This video work is a living poem co written by Nikesha Breeze and FAM. The performance explores the role of tenderness and touch on the Black and Indigenous body. The way we take care of the land and our home is the way we should care for each other. Nikesha Breeze directs and performs in this work, unbinding and washing two BIPOC women as a symbolic gesture of remembering and drawing the invisibilized and dismembered black body.