BODY

vs SPACE

2015-2016

Research that addresses how the topological space shows a paradox of the condition of the body: its vulnerability and concreteness; a tension between its becoming and its identity preservation. The performative actions put this ontological condition to the test, trying to overcome it whit gestures and its repetition, this frustrated task makes the paradox the main theme of the work.

Body vs Space is a series of performative exercises developed over one year in the context of a Mater Degree in Artistic Reseach.

FILL THE VOLUME

with the body

2016 - Itinerant performance

(Body vs Space Section 1)

I delimited a cube by drawing its edges on the floor and walls. I did various actions to comply with the rule, such as running around the perimeter, turning at high speed, jumping to reach heights and distances, rolling all over the floor. In the execution of each one of them the difference between the dimensional multiplicity of the space and that of the body became evident. I could never satisfy the instruction.

Work presented at Casa Tamarita

Casa Jova, St Gervasi, Barcelona

Master in Art Research at EINA, Center Universitari

de Disseny i Art de Barcelona (UAB).

OCCUPY TWO PLACES

at the same time

2016 - Itinerant Performance

(Body vs Sapce Section 2)

I made several attempts to accomplish the instruction with actions, finally, with the help of objects, clothes and other precarious materials, I represented my body double. Although I do not satisfy the instruction, the very insistence makes evident the impossibility of participating in the ubiquity.

Work presented at Casa Tamarita

Casa Jova, St Gervasi, Barcelona

Master in Art Research at EINA, Center Universitari

de Disseny i Art de Barcelona (UAB).

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MOVE ONE SPACE INTO ANOTHER

with body actions

2016 - Itinerant performance

(Body vs Space Section 3)

I measured the dimensions of my house with parts of my body. I memorized the measurements in the order that the perimeter of the house allowed, I moved to another place and made the route identically drawing the original measurements on floors and walls, thus tracing the map of my house inside another room.

Sound composition: I described with my voice in a recording the sequence shot of a movie (Goodfellas, Scorsese), it is the journey that the protagonists take inside a restaurant, I introduced the audio to the performance, and through sound I recreated the space from the restaurant, and overcame the move from my house.

Work presented at Nun Art Gracia, Barcelona

Master in Art Research at EINA, Center Universitari

de Disseny i Art de Barcelona (UAB).

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NOMINAL =/=

2016 - video

Four-part video with instructions:

Object = object: Be the object

Object = body: Act as the object acts

Body = object: Integrate the object into the body (as part of the body)

Objects or Bodies: Integrate the body into the object.

I was interested in showing the finite condition that allows to look at the body as a concrete thing, although fragile, ant that is not modified in its sediment by the relationships it establishes.

Work presented as a part of the Final Work of

a Master in Art Research at EINA, Center Universitari

de Disseny i Art de Barcelona (UAB)

APOSICIONES ANTEPUESTAS

Master Dissertation

BODY

2016 - Itinerant performance

(Body vs Space Section 1)

Work presented at Casa Tamarita

Casa Jova, St Gervasi, Barcelona

Master in Art Research at EINA, Center Universitari

de Disseny i Art de Barcelona (UAB).

2016 - Itinerant Performance

(Body vs Sapce Section 2)

Work presented at Casa Tamarita

Casa Jova, St Gervasi, Barcelona

Master in Art Research at EINA, Center Universitari

de Disseny i Art de Barcelona (UAB).

see more

2016 - Itinerant performance

(Body vs Space Section 3)

Work presented at Nun Art Gracia, Barcelona

Master in Art Research at EINA, Center Universitari

de Disseny i Art de Barcelona (UAB).

see more

2016 - video

Four-part video with instructions:

Object = object: Be the object

Object = body: Act as the object acts

Body = object: Integrate the object into the body (as part of the body)

Objects or Bodies: Integrate the body into the object.

I was interested in showing the finite condition that allows to look at the body as a concrete thing, although fragile, ant that is not modified in its sediment by the relationships it establishes.

Work presented as a part of the Final Work of

a Master in Art Research at EINA, Center Universitari

de Disseny i Art de Barcelona (UAB)

2016 - Performative Lecture

Text read and performed as a Dissertation of Master's Final Exam.

Work presented at EINA, Center Universitari

de Disseny i Art de Barcelona (UAB)