A dance performance is mainly perceived by the eye; I am interested in exploring new performative ways, so that we can expand the ways of perceiving the body, the ways of developing and presenting a compositional structure in a dance performance.
As a 26 year old man I am a child of this technology era, in which the presence of the body has become irrelevant for many activities: we can communicate, travel, visit, buy, establish a love relationship, even steal and make war in the solitude of our computer room.
e. g; Without having to physically travel to the Guggenheim in Bilbao I can take a virtual visit to the Museum via their website.
As a Colombian 26 year old man I am a child of a society where bodies literally disappear every day, due to the violence of armed groups. Especially in the past years, the state money is being increasingly directed to the destruction of bodies: buying weapons and expensive technologies to trace “the enemy of the state”. These are politics that are in opposition to social politics that could “give birth” to bodies that experience better live conditions: better social security, better educational plans nationwide.
Under these influences is for me unavoidable that my interest lies on the ways of perceiving the body,
I wish to establish an artistic practice where I can research and express a “re-appearance” of the body, by ways of using the same technologies that alienates us from experiencing the body.
An artistic influence of great impact for me is the Colombian artist Doris Salcedo. Her work with objects makes “the body” visible. By doing so she is for me creating that “re-appearance” of the body I am concerned with.
In one of her most celebrated works “Atrabiliarios”[1] we can perceive through the object of a pair of old shoes that are displayed behind pieces of translucent animal skin, the history of an individual. In this way Doris Salcedo is making “visible” the presence of a body that has disappeared and beyond that “Atrabiliarios” gives a feeling for the experiences of that body.
[1] http://www.iniva.org/dare/themes/space/salcedo.html