La velada del sapo
site-specific performance
OSSMO, Guadalajara, México
2023
In May 2023 we managed a collaboration between different collective projects: La Kriego, OSSMO, and Phi Movement, to create this fleeting performance.
It was built on four situations:
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1) sound and body performers were distributed over different rooms of an apartment and were told to improvise within their assigned places.
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2) It was late at night, dark, and all the lights were off.
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3) Some hand lamps were given to the audience and were invited to freely move around the space and illuminate whoever or whatever seems appropriate.
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4) The ending was left unwritten, subject to the collective consensus.
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When everybody is listening a community can be born out of thin air.
We were thinking about everyday movements, spaces and sounds.
We were thinking about experiencing them through the perception of a newborn.
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We were thinking about seeing, about being seen, and having the capacity to decide to see.
We were thinking about the difference of seeing or watching (in Spanish is better understood: ver o vigilar).
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About sound and how it changes our perception of space and vice versa.
About listening and what it means: an awareness of movement.
Listening and seeing precede any conscious action.
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What does it means to be complicit?
What is my limit of agency in a situation?
Who is complicit?
Where does my judgement come from?
When am I being complicit?
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We were thinking about the austere.
How communal poetry could be born out of mere movement: on body, sound, or light.
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performers
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Fernando Feria
Lola Ramirez de Obeso
Emiliano Cruz
Elizabeth Piña
Jorge vargas
Andres Navarro
Inés Navarro
Germán Aguilar
Daniel Magaña
Benedek Mendoza
Niko Díaz de Sandi
La Lupe
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videos documentation by Alexa Ximena Macias