tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-137293232024-02-22T17:59:16.321+01:00· LRM (Locus) : News / Press / BlogUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger137125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13729323.post-11818554747831347512023-05-24T20:18:00.003+02:002023-05-24T20:18:33.813+02:00What's next in spring-summer '23 <div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><p style="text-align: left;">We keep on steadily working on the new piece, </p><p style="text-align: left;">making music, projections and other stuff necessary</p><p style="text-align: left;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='758' height='631' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dwwLdzFMZckHwJtSMn-YzAXzA1iyAWTl9IyXOgz6ock-V9octv8L0fQUPFjIMuaOZLdXpYi3xs7AQw' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><br /> <p></p><p style="text-align: left;">New plans include fixing our new working space and f<u>inding two movement collaborators</u>, </p><p style="text-align: left;">for the new piece Luoghi plus also — and likely this will go first— for the previous piece Kowloon, </p><p style="text-align: left;">which will be shown again sometime soon and needs some rehearsing<br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh9Hx60PDzXId_LqhJbrcfuX0iuxEob8_KufNKzTC0sjBRKFuE358B8bPoZUqZrxFFmCdGZB0RRD1P8HYIRR1aBteolLfpRUVpV4EKurVTKNJ7zfNyG4UawHysKh4VibJlnShu3cabhtW3STAg72wsfvI6b1peAskC1eX3fL9Nb8mIFCswc4Bk" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="987" data-original-width="1117" height="638" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh9Hx60PDzXId_LqhJbrcfuX0iuxEob8_KufNKzTC0sjBRKFuE358B8bPoZUqZrxFFmCdGZB0RRD1P8HYIRR1aBteolLfpRUVpV4EKurVTKNJ7zfNyG4UawHysKh4VibJlnShu3cabhtW3STAg72wsfvI6b1peAskC1eX3fL9Nb8mIFCswc4Bk=w723-h638" width="723" /></a></div></div><br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13729323.post-24553402238735760822022-09-22T11:58:00.003+02:002022-09-22T12:09:05.536+02:00Getting ready for 2023<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisXcBNhnnvqGz4bSjOGDu0y2IxWiirt1vK9rQAorjWItjQ12YcOWuVAaVn1hK0DWpQks_dK4W-SmyNmaKZrH60ynz7e0dWEWXk48GzLd3IgFTrKBwZVYkgPx5LojdRlHUnBf4FF5dej4edu9eJyAzBmDuLUzcWzKTNAgmpU-5Uzj2B134QgUQ/s3826/Blogger%20sep%202022.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1989" data-original-width="3826" height="363" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisXcBNhnnvqGz4bSjOGDu0y2IxWiirt1vK9rQAorjWItjQ12YcOWuVAaVn1hK0DWpQks_dK4W-SmyNmaKZrH60ynz7e0dWEWXk48GzLd3IgFTrKBwZVYkgPx5LojdRlHUnBf4FF5dej4edu9eJyAzBmDuLUzcWzKTNAgmpU-5Uzj2B134QgUQ/w698-h363/Blogger%20sep%202022.png" width="698" /></span></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /><br />Despite the many vicissitudes this autumn we keep working on Luoghi (which was intended as a working title but likely it will remain). </span><p></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">For this winter we are refining music and sound —always a pivotal part of the structure of the piece—and also thinking about rehearsals and personnel, and mainly on setting up / strike stuff. </span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgM6g0vCZHQzPowxKRTRT-hPZ3fCQjGOkorBm_tVSxzwqtyXEauJPKmcACNDZHcmxmN6nCHGUpFSa9IVLgDZjYkDl9XINoO3fBfHKUtS_JJg1kyZWoNrn5soKJjgceVK6VbKzT90EmCkMilptcijKdx95z1T9p85t1KiJcU443wfSog4sDoJc/s1760/Captura%20de%20pantalla%202022-07-16%20a%20las%2014.07.00.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1166" data-original-width="1760" height="464" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgM6g0vCZHQzPowxKRTRT-hPZ3fCQjGOkorBm_tVSxzwqtyXEauJPKmcACNDZHcmxmN6nCHGUpFSa9IVLgDZjYkDl9XINoO3fBfHKUtS_JJg1kyZWoNrn5soKJjgceVK6VbKzT90EmCkMilptcijKdx95z1T9p85t1KiJcU443wfSog4sDoJc/w701-h464/Captura%20de%20pantalla%202022-07-16%20a%20las%2014.07.00.png" width="701" /></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p></p><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="text-align: left;">Considering the practical part of setting up a piece, </span><span style="text-align: left;">what is viable or not ends up being the gist of the piece. </span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="text-align: left;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="text-align: left;">Many artists and most art related people do not seem to realise how results, </span><span style="text-align: left;">especially in terms of form, depend on that. </span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;"><br /></span></div><p></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13729323.post-48633520772675127252021-07-22T12:34:00.003+02:002021-07-22T12:34:28.794+02:00Summer 2021 <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8CXqxZ7V80foBraQGPHdRoP6r84xZ2junHrZSvWgHmZQn-w5bEvoKVtYuQXnsHKuJ8YG0hlCektgBtlHGTpsQSNFPPXDFEYhvMEHz8dc1nCOlPo4txiamzfePc1_f1u3hSI7KDA/s1316/-Imagen+70%25E2%2588%259A+RC.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><br /><img border="0" data-original-height="760" data-original-width="1316" height="345" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8CXqxZ7V80foBraQGPHdRoP6r84xZ2junHrZSvWgHmZQn-w5bEvoKVtYuQXnsHKuJ8YG0hlCektgBtlHGTpsQSNFPPXDFEYhvMEHz8dc1nCOlPo4txiamzfePc1_f1u3hSI7KDA/w596-h345/-Imagen+70%25E2%2588%259A+RC.jpg" width="596" /></a></div><br /><p> Estamos buscando un mejor espacio de trabajo, mirando opciones, y nuevos intérpretes. Ya vacunados, quizá sea posible volver a trabajar en estudio pronto; crucemos los dedos</p><p>We're looking for a better working space, looking for options, and new performers. Vaccinated already, perhaps we could work in studio again soon, cross our fingers. </p><p><br /></p><div><br /></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13729323.post-14565751589054392952020-12-23T22:26:00.006+01:002020-12-23T22:35:55.346+01:00Goodbye 2020, welcome 2021 <p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-size: small;"> </span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='558' height='464' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dwOIlFXObDv6ipahic9BQ4XT-Y3_d7Yb-AS4LqF3Ia8_hQlg-erha-SNYRWQcgoITxkbA35UTqsYbw' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></span></div><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-size: small;"><br /><span> </span>During this abnormal 2020 we kept working on Luoghi, while the plans for a presentation of Kowloon in London and Luoghi rehearsals await. <br /></span></div><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='579' height='482' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dyiVnZHDJqsC_e4U1r1Ow-eoWSwmtVkvobI4abRNotnOgY6yBU0ozhytoSOUzijAEcS6RPkpxjrac4' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></span></div><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-size: small;"><br />We have been focusing on all the stuff that can be done at home, whilst working with new collaborators in the studio remains unsafe. <br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijiQ4RMCO7_VYu6Eu9wgQMlkizGDoQeCPjj1siUQpBodpR7yfA_YIoif5ytZ6Y3UMs5bKK_NxYlzergYP8t-F7V-x5LT7Z02ieOchCZgVohddr3qTJtMnE7tCH9MVbHnFg_kNF4g/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><br /></a></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGt6jx3GB1hJ6apNvpWOJTzFgFOerwzjrsaYi7-yMIYmSMtXr47N_G0064kBHeRulMP9Q3UrG7x8a2Hi4JCW2vkD7KDBWg2Eq8Uv4cHh6QMLykKnvNsqTJnM1uebaGraXlmit-aA/s1188/LRM+Luoghi++ac+2.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="908" data-original-width="1188" height="394" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGt6jx3GB1hJ6apNvpWOJTzFgFOerwzjrsaYi7-yMIYmSMtXr47N_G0064kBHeRulMP9Q3UrG7x8a2Hi4JCW2vkD7KDBWg2Eq8Uv4cHh6QMLykKnvNsqTJnM1uebaGraXlmit-aA/w515-h394/LRM+Luoghi++ac+2.png" width="515" /></a></div><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWlqh-dsqi-6y4QNKy8xzYAvSzI4V7qAblhOU2AuhUUVAMx3jBww5oPLuV0FmUKsVbagjtMtKQPe9FBLlkZvpwq6Hx7CKQgs-_l5bbFjNf5DBRkFeuwDji5HgALfo56Agcm2_VPg/s1188/LRM+Luoghi++ac+2.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><br /></a></span></div></div><p><span style="font-size: small;"> We kept on working on our usual analog projections; we modified old machines and created the sort of "still life" backgrounds (or foregrounds, and in-between too) we need for some scenes </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjygPx1cJeBrCu33Y3Zuas7ijwESj9iNFqGQvPbMxHBwpCIORUEJB-Z3dAXY4qHLub03St1eGROdxqi8JGYfCJSQYw59AEledBCtdewiUdlpiQi0dvhTJ2U2gF7_EoVsbsScTkpag/s2314/b-d.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="818" data-original-width="2314" height="220" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjygPx1cJeBrCu33Y3Zuas7ijwESj9iNFqGQvPbMxHBwpCIORUEJB-Z3dAXY4qHLub03St1eGROdxqi8JGYfCJSQYw59AEledBCtdewiUdlpiQi0dvhTJ2U2gF7_EoVsbsScTkpag/w622-h220/b-d.png" width="622" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-size: small;"><br /><br /></span><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">We wanted to create watercolor-like scenes, with the difficulty of
transfering these colours to live movement with
light fixtures, projectors, props and performers. After much pondering we found a way, we will refine it in the studio; you
will see it in our presentation. <br /><br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRUYK5PM7YtYATI4qQhloofn1c5vel4shViyQlD1q9zTqD6qbHEmLPf-0-Q9eAQ9Dv7G5JpwpXedxidftrC3OI2eFSNcEGTt_DRm7EBssiGeyTT7VmuIhGATBhEu0PtpKVau1J9g/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="522" data-original-width="1223" height="237" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRUYK5PM7YtYATI4qQhloofn1c5vel4shViyQlD1q9zTqD6qbHEmLPf-0-Q9eAQ9Dv7G5JpwpXedxidftrC3OI2eFSNcEGTt_DRm7EBssiGeyTT7VmuIhGATBhEu0PtpKVau1J9g/w553-h237/Acuarela-diapo.jpg" width="553" /></a></span></div><p><span style="font-size: small;"> Part of
the music ( yes, we call it music, not sound-whatever) is also being prepared at home. </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZkSEbpj9tdhAcaavgoHdWNUiIEIgnOiJzR83D7E2LUS1MAcqWJMIuoW9grxFYzkPiimldtp2OsyUsSXaUZC8ZrPP5PcHVvxKSa8ajIS-wZ5mkcY5DYvog1NW0E1A8BRS37hvDGw/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="924" data-original-width="1192" height="382" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZkSEbpj9tdhAcaavgoHdWNUiIEIgnOiJzR83D7E2LUS1MAcqWJMIuoW9grxFYzkPiimldtp2OsyUsSXaUZC8ZrPP5PcHVvxKSa8ajIS-wZ5mkcY5DYvog1NW0E1A8BRS37hvDGw/w493-h382/LRM+Luoghi++Sound.png" width="493" /></a></span></div><p><span style="font-size: small;"><br /><br /></span></p><span style="font-size: small;">We really hope the situation allows us to go on pretty soon, and does not leave a too profound scar on arts, especially live art<span>. Trust human resilience. </span><br /></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13729323.post-43863769395627543962020-02-06T14:27:00.000+01:002020-02-06T14:27:04.044+01:00LRM Locus- presentation at Momentum World - Leicester UK february 2020<div class="font_7" style="text-align: justify;">
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These days we were invited to participate in an Eramus+ meeting in Constanza, Romania. There we held a talk and workshop about LRM
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Thank you so much to our host Youth Vision and to BB&R for their support <br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13729323.post-45998106617629987342019-04-24T22:34:00.000+02:002019-04-24T22:35:53.671+02:00LRM Locus at Eisfabrik Hannover <br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.comSeilerstraße 15F, 30171 Hannover, Alemania52.3645305 9.752563099999974826.842496 -31.556030900000025 77.886565 51.061157099999974tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13729323.post-67219911519768099332018-08-18T19:36:00.000+02:002018-08-18T19:47:18.702+02:00Kowloon, Miniere Sonore Festival 2018 : Rumor(s)cena Magazine article<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<b>Con motivo del estreno en Italia de Kowloon la revista Italiana Rumor(s)cena publica este realmente estupendo artículo de la historiadora del Arte Idoia Hormaza</b><br />
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<span style="text-align: start;"><a href="https://www.rumorscena.com/18/08/2018/kowloon-lrm-locus-rivendica-limmaginazione-allo-stato-puro-al-festival-miniere-sonore"><b>https://www.rumorscena.com/18/08/2018/kowloon-lrm-locus-rivendica-limmaginazione-allo-stato-puro-al-festival-miniere-sonore</b></a></span></div>
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<span style="text-align: start;"><i>On the occasion of the Italian premiere of Kowloon the Italian magazine Rumor(s)cena publishes this really great article by Art historian Idoia Hormaza</i></span></div>
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<i>Ocurre que las reglas se llevan impresas en el cerebro.</i></div>
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<i>Ante un espectáculo inesperado, inconscientemente se buscan nexos. </i></div>
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<i>Las luces, aquellos sonidos, aquellas acciones.</i></div>
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<i>Kowloon bebe de inspiraciones, entre otras cosas, asiáticas (no en vano el título se corresponde con el nombre de un barrio en Honk-Kong) busca romper con la narración lineal. El espectador se halla doblemente inmerso en una oscuridad, la de la negrura inicial del escenario y la de la lógica. </i></div>
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<i>Se construye un espacio para la imaginación en la que se trata de recuperar la esencia de un arte dejando de lado lo aprendido. Toma de aquí y de allá pero con un carácter eminentemente interdisciplinar, reivindica la imaginación en un estado puro, sin condicionantes, sin referencias, sin antecedentes. </i></div>
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<i>¿Qué es lo eminentemente característico de una función representada por actores?</i></div>
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<i>Si vamos más allá del teatro, más allá de la performance, más allá de la música, más allá del espectáculo lumínico, más allá, aún, más allá de las representaciones, de los tiempos, de los personajes, de los idiomas… LRM Locus parece querer atrapar en lo efímero la ruptura. </i></div>
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<i>El público queda totalmente desubicado y sujeto entonces por fonemas visuales y acústicos que no componen un léxico al uso. No hay léxico, no hay frases, no hay sintaxis… queda una masa informe de emociones trepidantes que suben y bajan, que sacuden y que sorprenden.</i></div>
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<i>Otro logro maravilloso es el de la posibilidad de leyes físicas opuestas, la gravedad-la ingravidez, la luz-la oscuridad, el movimiento-la quietud… Transcurren los sucesos difíciles de detectar, de acotar, el cerebro no tiene el tiempo de aferrarse a certeza alguna. Kowloon se sucede sin esperar. Serpentea, vuela, ondea, se expande, se mece, grita, se imprime, se revuelve, se duerme… </i></div>
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<i>Al contrario que en los buenos trucos de magia, desvelar los materiales que lo hacen posible tan sólo desvelan más belleza. Cada pequeño componente de Kowloon es una obra de arte en sí misma, no sólo como ingenio y artificio sino también como objeto. Sin nostalgias la tecnología ya obsoleta brota como plantas de las sepulturas. Donde una pantalla de móvil rota se expresa y se convierte en decenas de estrellas, el paso de uno a otro, ese lapso en la indeterminación, de éste y mil y un detalles es Kowloon. </i></div>
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<i>Al contrario de lo que ocurre con los organismos vitales, diseccionar Kowloon no supone su muerte sino en una ciencia acientífica, y por ende de creatividad exponencial, descubrir otras formas de vida, de arte. </i></div>
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<i>Si en este Kowloon hay alguna muralla, evocando al original, sería el del fin de la función: la realidad.</i></div>
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<b>Info sobre el estreno en Italia (en Italiano e Inglés) : </b></div>
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<i> It happens that the rules remain imprinted in our brain. In the face of an unexpected spectacle, we unconsciously tend to look for links. The lights, those sounds, those actions. </i><br />
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<i>Kowloon draws its inspiration, among other things from Asian references (not by chance the title corresponds to the name of a district of Hong-Kong) and intendedly seeks to break linear narrative. The spectator is doubly immersed into darkness, that of the initial black out of the stage and that of logic. </i><br />
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<i>A space is created for the imagination which is all about recovering the essence of an art, leaving aside all that has been learned. Taking from here and there but with an eminently interdisciplinary character, it reclaims our imagination in its pure state, without conditions, without references, without antecedents. </i><br />
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<i>What is eminently characteristic of a play represented by actors? If we go beyond theater, performance art, beyond music, the light show, the performances, time, characters, languages ... </i><br />
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<i>LRM seems to go after capturing the rupture in the ephemeral. The audience remains totally disorientated and subject to visual and acoustic phonemes that compose no useful lexicon</i><br />
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<i>Without any nostalgia, some already obsolete technology sprouts like plants from tombs. Where a broken cell phone screen expresses itself and becomes dozens of stars, the transition from one to the other, that period of indeterminacy, this and a thousand and one details is what Kowloon is. Contrary to what happens to living organisms, dissecting it does not suppose its death for it becomes a non-scientific science with an outcome of exponential creativity, through which we discover other forms of life, of art. </i><br />
<i>If there is any wall in this Kowloon walled city –evoking the original one– it would be the end of the function: reality.</i><br />
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<a href="http://minieresonore.com/event/lrm-performance-locus-in-concerto-26-agosto-2018/"><b>http://minieresonore.com/event/lrm-performance-locus-in-concerto-26-agosto-2018/</b></a><br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13729323.post-30770705532780399892018-07-31T21:17:00.000+02:002019-03-27T22:44:43.786+01:00 Kowloon premiere at Casa de Vacas Cultural Center Madrid<br />
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Last <b>July 28th and 29th we premiered <i>Kowloon</i></b> in <b>Madrid</b>, at Casa de Vacas, a well-known Art Center in Madrid located inside Retiro Park, one of the most important cultural heritage gardens in the center of Madrid.<br />
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We had three intense set-up days where we had to adapt and redesign some aspects of the piece to fit different dimensions from the original format.<br />
We held two quite successful presentations which were completelly sold-out, attended by more than 200 people.<br />
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Los días 28 y 29 de julio, a las 20:00 horas LRM Locus presentará <i>Kowloon</i> en Casa de Vacas, en el Parque del Retiro.<br />
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La entrada es gratuita hasta completar el aforo<br />
No está permitido tomar fotografías ni grabar vídeo<br />
Recomendado para mayores de 14 años<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">El <b>24</b> y <b>27</b> de Enero <b>LRM–Locus</b> estrenaremos en España <a href="https://www.lrm-info.com/kowloon" target="_blank"><b>Kowloon</b></a>, </span></div>
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<b>Kowloon</b> es nuestra obra interdisciplinar abstracta de 56 minutos inspirada en aspectos de la cultura cantonesa<br />
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<b>Miércoles 24 Enero – 20.00h</b></div>
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<b><i>Ignacio Vleming </i></b></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: x-small;">Is editor and scriptwriter of art, culture and tourism videos with a degree in Art History and Audiovisual Communication from the Complutense university working as a journalist, cultural manager and community manager since 2004; worked with the Spanish Ministry of Culture, 2 de Mayo Cultural Centre, National Museum of Romanticism, and Lázaro Galdiano Foundation. He is author of the poetry book “Clima artificial de primavera” (La Bella Varsovia, 2012) and he texts for the game-book “Inspiración Instantánea” (Modernito Books, 2013).</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: x-small;">This text is his critique of our work, Kowloon, originally published in spanish in <a href="http://www.underdogs.es/kowloon-lrm-performance/" target="_blank"><b>The Underdogs Magazine</b></a></span></i></div>
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<b>KOWLOON, A MYSTERY TO BE PRESERVED</b></div>
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Under the title of <i>Kowloon</i>, the name of a peninsula that is part of Hong Kong and in which its Walled City was overcrowded with chinese exiles for decades, LRM Performance present their latest work: a piece heir to the best avant-garde theater with expressionist lighting and absence of dialogues.</div>
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Contrary to what is usually said about non-narrative proposals such as LRM Performance's, <i>Kowloon</i> uses rhythm and tempo with unheard-of exquisiteness, among other reasons because it relies on a solid formal structure –key to the success of any show and the very essence of beauty.<br />
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Although it may seem that another order is possible, the different scenes follow each other forming a homogeneous and harmonious whole, unalterable and closed as a universe that has no raison d'etre other than its contemplation. Way to go!</div>
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The sound environment, built up of volumes and weights belonging to architecture –areas of light and shade like those evoking the now-destroyed Walled City of Kowloon– generate an atmosphere from which mysterious characters emerge, ranging from the sinister to the tender or from disgusting to the sublime.<br />
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It could be said that we are in front of a moving landscape, with its changes in scale and intensity: the smallest point of the horizon that grows as we approach to it until it becomes a huge cathedral behind which rosette lies nevertheless just a close-up of our own viscera.</div>
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I believe many directors and playwrights, even those who practice other kinds of theater –or rather those who do– could handle themselves more easily on stage if they followed the same guidelines that govern this piece.<br />
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The public should be asked to attend <i>Kowloon</i> as if they were to watch a firework display, a Ballet or a Mendelssohn concert, and ask no questions about what this play does or does not say. Questions that obviously have no answer, because true art creations conceal a mystery that must be preserved.</div>
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Esta es la traducción del artículo de Silvia Santillana sobre <i>Kowloon, </i> de LRM Locus, publicado en <i>Va de Arte – </i></div>
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<i><b>This is the English translation of the review of Kowloon by Silvia Santillana published at Va de Arte: </b></i></div>
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<i><b><a href="https://vadearteblog.wordpress.com/acerca-de/" target="_blank">Silvia Santillana</a></b> is an Art Historian specialized on critique and cultural communication. She is editor at El Cultural (El Mundo newspaper) and at the digital plattform QAH Patrimonio.</i></div>
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<b><i>KOWLOON, </i> OR LRM LOCUS' IMMERSIVE EXPERIENCE </b></div>
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When the lights go out, darkness overwhelms us, our senses sharpen up. An indescribable feeling surrounds us. A powerful impression lurks in the shadows. We do not know where we are or where we are going. Suddenly, a light constricts our pupils projecting us into an intense, imponderable glow wrappping up an illusory space full of lights and sounds. It's <b><i>Kowloon</i> (2015),</b> the latest work from the <b>LRM Performance (Locus)</b> collective.</div>
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<i>Kowloon</i> is everything and nothing at the same time. <b>A disturbing, magical, overwhelming staging in which the harmony of the parts becomes tangible in the eyes of the beholder through movements, stillness and silences of its players, plus an impeccable technical apparatus which acts as a catalyst for the most primary pulsations of the human being.</b> There is something in <i>Kowloon</i> of a primeval state, of a chrysalis or an amphibian, a transitory state towards another something fleeing the anecdotal and connected to multiple underlying ideas. That idea, those traces of physical and eidetic experiences like frames of a movie or prefigured memories create a lattice, a hive of invertebrate creatures and indefinable shapes, escaping all logic and any categorization.</div>
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In <i>Kowloon</i> the idea of the occult, of assembling images and materials compounds the essence of the creative process of this group formed by the <i>performers</i> David Aladro-Vico, composer, and Berta Delgado, visual artist, along with the guest movement performer for this piece, Chen Zhihan. <b>A multidisciplinary work that shuns the traditional and present performance art trend of minimalist space and naked body. Here, space is a labyrinth, an illusion, where the three performers may get lost, metamorphose, turn into hundreds, into one, or into none. A space that creates new perceptions with screens and mechanisms, revealing a pristine truth through its disguise, one we can only access through art.</b></div>
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The idea of an indefinable organism, which is cellular and mechanical at the same time is also present in this suffocating space inside the studio and in the beholder's mind; an immersive experience of 56 minutes and 22 scenes, which alludes to the Walled city of <i>Kowloon</i> (Hong Kong), demolished in 1994.</div>
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This fort created in the seventeenth century eventually became a Chinese enclave within British territory. Its structure began to grow after World War II, becomng a maze of buildings, one above the other, densely populated, a tangle of conducts, cables and pipes; a jumble of forms where sunlight barely penetrated. This phenomenon was documented in books and films, whose images remain in the memory through various cultural events such as Hong Kong cinema.</div>
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But above all, it is <b>the spiritual atmosphere of Kowloon, through artificial lights and sounds, taken and altered from nature itself, which impresses us </b>and puts us in touch with some eastern thought, not only from Hong Kong, but from different sources and locations. Thus <i>Paprika</i> anime film creator Satoshi Kon or master Lao Tse's basics of Taoist philosophy seem to be present in <i>Kowloon</i>; a performance disregarding no popular, current or traditional characteristics of Asian culture.</div>
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In that mélange of refined, frantic movements, endless lights and sounds, one also seems to contemplate the beginning of civilization itself, being part of the time when Prometheus stole fire from the gods to deliver his gift to mortals. With this action, the protagonist was punished to remain chained in an eternal torment and regeneration cycle which we cannot ignore in this LRM Locus' chaotic and mystical experience, making it clear their influences come not just from the Kowloon peninsula or Asia, but from human beings and their emotions.<br />
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Thus, the "Anarchitecture" Gordon Matta-Clark or northern Finland's Onkalo nuclear repository are just some of the images that make up the universe of <i>Kowloon</i>. In a mix of chance or fate, LRM Performance (Locus) studio is in Usera, the neighborhood with the highest number of chinese settlers from the Canton province in Madrid, along with many other expatriates from around the world.</div>
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Traveling between the physical boundaries of the current political map we realize everything is possible within the human mind; <i>Kowloon</i> is proof of that. <b>Any interpretation is free, and all creative work aims at giving wings to the imagination of the viewer; something LRM Performance -Locus not only achieved but exceeded, by referring us to a pure and chaotic state through the immersive experience of their toiled and wonderful work. "</b></div>
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<span class="ember-view" id="ember5067">We had our presence at ARCO –Madrid's big contemporary Art Fair: Marie Claire Decay , president of the Salvador Victoria Foundation discussing on "Current validity of abstract Art" included us LRM Performance-Locus as "new trends in abstraction" </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">– almost an essay– on LRM Locus' <i>Kowloon</i>, by Angel Alonso, </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">published in the magazine <b><a href="https://elestadomental.com/diario/hay-un-telon-de-fondo">El Estado Mental</a>, </b><i>aug 27th 2016</i></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;"><i>Esta es la crítica – casi un ensayo– de Angel Alonso sobre </i></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;"><i>recién publicado en la revista </i></span><b><a href="https://elestadomental.com/diario/hay-un-telon-de-fondo">El Estado Mental</a> </b></span><br />
<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;">– puedes leerlo <a href="https://elestadomental.com/diario/hay-un-telon-de-fondo">aquí</a></span></b></div>
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LRM Performance - Locus invited me few weeks ago to a private pass of their new work, entitled '<i>Kowloon</i>'. I did not know what was I going to witness. I had only seen some photographs. In addition, members of LRM Locus told me about their interest in Tsai Ming-liang, Roy Andersson, Andrei Tarkovsky, Apichatpong Weerasethakul or Fruit Chan's films. Perhaps that is why I began to wonder how invoking the cinematic memory within the transience of a performance would be. And it certainly stirred such visual memory, but in a much different way than I could have imagined.</div>
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Somehow, for this text I try to follow their work's game proposal and build up a non-narrative description of the piece. Therefore, in the following lines descriptions of specific moments of the piece are mixed with personal references to the world that was stirred up in me when attempting to come back to <i>Kowloon</i>.</div>
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I need to remember that image because I also need to touch what just appeared between the backdrop and that wall I feel moving away. But I can't, and because of it, I remember. Perhaps next time I may be able to touch that threatening, virginal and set adrift realm. Yes, perhaps the next step of LRM Locus will be allowing me to touch what I believe are sea creatures or arborescent crustacea. Or maybe they will allow me to caress and look carefully at it all when the lights come back on and <i>Kowloon</i> is gone. But I'm still in the darkness and I feel the sea so close inside the hall that the sound of a door is like a ship about to wreck to me. Threatening worlds you want to get closer to, a bit like what happened to David Drayton in The Mist (Frank Darabont, 2007), when he got out of a car and watched the solemn wandering gigantic creatures coming with mist from another world destroying anyone who dared in.</div>
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Those bodies also fear the sea and its creatures, they look at it downcast and in quick glances, discovering it in flashes of light. They may be inside an animal, as they say Jonah was in a whale. Sometimes they touch the creature and the inside of her womb, or go to the remains of their wrecked barge.</div>
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One of them tapped a wall. Looks with its hands, not its eyes. And I feel the joy of hands sliding to touch, just for such joy, fear and faith they have when facing the unexplored, now that their eyes did not succeed in gazing and felt beaten from the distance by something unknown. Hands raised towards a new world, as if this quite determined item towards which we project [1] requests it, and they had to respond, touching, to the call of the seemingly ignoble materials of <i>Kowloon</i>.</div>
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Long time must have passed since I found them at the bottom of that ocean, for suddenly the flowers appear scattered over the body of one of the inhabitants of <i>Kowloon</i>. And the flowers are different, and also fossilized because, in a muddy cave on a remote system or at the bottom of the ocean, minutes are traveled as decades. Bodies that lost their human appearance in a liquid world –for the sea can do anything, as Ariel said to Ferdinand in The Tempest (William Shakespeare, 1611) with a ballad tone that always comes to me when a person is masked with plastics resembling lichens:</div>
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Then again, how long have they been in <i>Kowloon</i> so that their bodies changed? How much time did unfold before me while lights blink on and off? Did their bodies journey through the different ages of that world or did they simply create new galleries that take it away from me and it becomes strange again? Or maybe I did not even see the same bodies all the time and before me passed, generation after generation, all descendants of those three beings who arrived there one day.</div>
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I believe every slight flash of light showing me again that corridor which wall I still cannot gaze at, was enshrining all the <i>Kowloons </i>I once lived in as a traveler or watched on a screen. The experience of shutting and opening your eyes -of interrupted lights - placed me beyond any chronology and yet, allowed me to remember all the stories and lives I inadvertently wished for. It was only a fifty minute trip and escape. While that piece of Hong Kong made me open my eyes to shut them out immediately, the experienced sensation of light taking place at a given time was the condensation of an extraordinarily incomprehensible story, which unfolded in a stumbling world I could only snatch a wisp from.</div>
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<i>There lie, succeeding each other, trillions of oscillations, that is, a series of events such that if I wanted to count them, even with the greatest possible economy of time, would require thousands of years</i>. [4]</div>
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[1] Merleau-Ponty, Maurice, <i>Phénoménologie de la Perceptión </i>(1945)</div>
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[2] Cernuda, Luis, <i>Qué ruido tan triste</i> (1931)</div>
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[3] Shakespeare, William, <i>The Tempest </i>(1611), <i>Ariel's Song</i></div>
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[4] Bergson, Henri, <i>L'Énergie spirituelle</i> (1919)</div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">– almost an essay– on LRM Locus' <i>Kowloon</i>, by Angel Alonso, </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">published in the magazine <b><a href="https://elestadomental.com/diario/hay-un-telon-de-fondo">El Estado Mental</a>, </b><i>aug 27th 2016</i></span></div>
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LRM Performance - Locus invited me few weeks ago to a private pass of their new work, entitled '<i>Kowloon</i>'. I did not know what was I going to witness. I had only seen some photographs. In addition, members of LRM Locus told me about their interest in Tsai Ming-liang, Roy Andersson, Andrei Tarkovsky, Apichatpong Weerasethakul or Fruit Chan's films. Perhaps that is why I began to wonder how invoking the cinematic memory within the transience of a performance would be. And it certainly stirred such visual memory, but in a much different way than I could have imagined.</div>
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Somehow, for this text I try to follow their work's game proposal and build up a non-narrative description of the piece. Therefore, in the following lines descriptions of specific moments of the piece are mixed with personal references to the world that was stirred up in me when attempting to come back to <i>Kowloon</i>.</div>
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I need to remember that image because I also need to touch what just appeared between the backdrop and that wall I feel moving away. But I can't, and because of it, I remember. Perhaps next time I may be able to touch that threatening, virginal and set adrift realm. Yes, perhaps the next step of LRM Locus will be allowing me to touch what I believe are sea creatures or arborescent crustacea. Or maybe they will allow me to caress and look carefully at it all when the lights come back on and <i>Kowloon</i> is gone. But I'm still in the darkness and I feel the sea so close inside the hall that the sound of a door is like a ship about to wreck to me. Threatening worlds you want to get closer to, a bit like what happened to David Drayton in The Mist (Frank Darabont, 2007), when he got out of a car and watched the solemn wandering gigantic creatures coming with mist from another world destroying anyone who dared in.</div>
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<i>Kowloon</i> seems also menacing, yet some drops dripping from it and a glimpse between its darkness make it more beautiful than sinister. Three body shaped drops walking around an ocean expelled as to pack it with walls, ratlines or sails to unfurl while the wind is being counted.</div>
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Those bodies also fear the sea and its creatures, they look at it downcast and in quick glances, discovering it in flashes of light. They may be inside an animal, as they say Jonah was in a whale. Sometimes they touch the creature and the inside of her womb, or go to the remains of their wrecked barge.</div>
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One of them tapped a wall. Looks with its hands, not its eyes. And I feel the joy of hands sliding to touch, just for such joy, fear and faith they have when facing the unexplored, now that their eyes did not succeed in gazing and felt beaten from the distance by something unknown. Hands raised towards a new world, as if this quite determined item towards which we project [1] requests it, and they had to respond, touching, to the call of the seemingly ignoble materials of <i>Kowloon</i>.</div>
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Long time must have passed since I found them at the bottom of that ocean, for suddenly the flowers appear scattered over the body of one of the inhabitants of <i>Kowloon</i>. And the flowers are different, and also fossilized because, in a muddy cave on a remote system or at the bottom of the ocean, minutes are traveled as decades. Bodies that lost their human appearance in a liquid world –for the sea can do anything, as Ariel said to Ferdinand in The Tempest (William Shakespeare, 1611) with a ballad tone that always comes to me when a person is masked with plastics resembling lichens:</div>
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Then again, how long have they been in <i>Kowloon</i> so that their bodies changed? How much time did unfold before me while lights blink on and off? Did their bodies journey through the different ages of that world or did they simply create new galleries that take it away from me and it becomes strange again? Or maybe I did not even see the same bodies all the time and before me passed, generation after generation, all descendants of those three beings who arrived there one day.</div>
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I believe every slight flash of light showing me again that corridor which wall I still cannot gaze at, was enshrining all the <i>Kowloons </i>I once lived in as a traveler or watched on a screen. The experience of shutting and opening your eyes -of interrupted lights - placed me beyond any chronology and yet, allowed me to remember all the stories and lives I inadvertently wished for. It was only a fifty minute trip and escape. While that piece of Hong Kong made me open my eyes to shut them out immediately, the experienced sensation of light taking place at a given time was the condensation of an extraordinarily incomprehensible story, which unfolded in a stumbling world I could only snatch a wisp from.</div>
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<i>There lie, succeeding each other, trillions of oscillations, that is, a series of events such that if I wanted to count them, even with the greatest possible economy of time, would require thousands of years</i>. [4]</div>
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[1] Merleau-Ponty, Maurice, <i>Phénoménologie de la Perceptión </i>(1945)</div>
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[2] Cernuda, Luis, <i>Qué ruido tan triste</i> (1931)</div>
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[3] Shakespeare, William, <i>The Tempest </i>(1611), <i>Ariel's Song</i></div>
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[4] Bergson, Henri, <i>L'Énergie spirituelle</i> (1919)</div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><b>Gaston Bachelard</b> in <i>The Poetics of reverie</i>, tries to capture the wonderful poetic potential of that moment between sleep and consciousness in which neither of the two planes has </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">yet</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"> complete power over the other. The moment when, for Bachelard, poetic creation was possible. <b><i>Kowloon</i></b> <b>exerts a spell of reverie</b>.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><b><i>Kowloon</i></b> comes together in <b>a melting pot of influences</b> from different media, with predominance of asian references, of which its creators speak about without fear. In a time when virtually access to all culture is within the reach of a click, it is absurd to consider yourself a great demiurge. There is much more value in <b>receiving, processing and creation of a new piece through personal baggage</b>. As it always has been said of Picasso, it does not matter how many images he absorbs, but how he digested them. But make no mistake, <b><i>Kowloon</i></b> is not a collage of quotations. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">The iconography –which takes place in scenes combining lights, projections, sounds and actions in the guise of film sequences– constantly amazes and astonishes our eyes and minds.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">Retrieving Bachelard once again, he believed the moment of reverie could not be something merely passive, but rather one <b>"asking us to activate our participation in the creative imagination"</b>. There is where the magic of the piece lies; each one of us receives and constantly reconstructs it according to his or her own experiences and memories. Where some see the warmth of a post-apocalyptic desert, others see a cemetery of bones or a struggle between good and evil. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">The viewer dwells in <b><i>Kowloon</i></b>. The creative act not only derives from its creators, but it continues inside those who experience the work. Therefore, <b><i>Kowloon</i></b>, which has no narrative, can not be narrated.<b> It must be lived</b>"</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://es.linkedin.com/in/pazolivarescarrasco"><b>Paz Olivares</b></a> wrote <a href="http://interartive.org/2016/06/kowloon-by-lrm-locus-filming/"><b>this critique </b></a>about <i>Kowloon</i> for <a href="http://interartive.org/2016/06/kowloon-by-lrm-locus-filming/">Interartive Magazine</a></span></div>
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<i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Esta es la <a href="http://interartive.org/2016/06/kowloon-de-lrm-performance-locus-rodaje-de-lo-subterraneo/"><b>crítica</b></a> de Kowloon que ha escrito <a href="https://es.linkedin.com/in/pazolivarescarrasco"><b>Paz Olivares </b></a>para la revista<b> <a href="http://interartive.org/2016/06/kowloon-de-lrm-performance-locus-rodaje-de-lo-subterraneo/">Interartive Magazine</a></b></span></i></div>
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Kowloon, de LRM Performance /Locus: </span></b><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">He tenido la suerte de haber sido invitada a uno de los open studio de LRM Performance (ó "Locus") en los que muestran su recién terminado trabajo "Kowloon" a prensa, historiadores o comisarios. Es una experiencia muy personal pues su principal línea de creación consiste en que el trabajo no posea concepto ni narratividad, siendo el observador el que los crea, si lo así desea. De esta forma tras ver el trabajo invitan a liberar esa parte atávica de nosotros que se rige por la emoción y la intuición, por la piel. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Es conocido cómo David Lynch, siendo estudiante de Bellas Artes, dio con la clave de lo que buscaba en la pintura cuando uno de sus lienzos se movió por efecto de una leve ráfaga de viento. Esa oscilación provocó en los trazos un efecto inquietante del que antes carecían. La abstracción había cobrado vida. El mismo Lynch lo explica así: “Quería conseguir un tono, como si La Mona Lisa abriera la boca y se girase y entonces escucháramos el sonido del viento, y luego volviéramos a la posición de origen y sonriera de nuevo.” El mayor hallazgo de Lynch son esas abstracciones, esas escenas sin contexto, esos cuadros en movimiento que cambiaron la forma de hacer y entender el cine.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">Pues bien, aunque en Kowloon la influencia oriental es obvia desde el mismo nombre de la producción, hay mucho del legado posmoderno occidental del que la abstracción pictórica en movimiento de David Lynch es sólo una referencia mínima. La interdisciplinaridad, el ensamblaje heterogéneo de influencias, corrientes y culturas que, a priori, parecen tener poco que ver, hacen de Kowloon una pieza original y valiente dentro del arte performativo actual. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">Así, la importancia capital del sonido en Kowloon nos lleva al cine surrealista europeo (pienso en el René Clair, de Entr’Acte (1924), por ejemplo) o a esos cortometrajes del joven Lynch –Six figures getting sick six times (1966) fue el primero–, pero de igual forma nos remite a la concepción sagrada del primer sonido creador en las religiones orientales. Y es que si en la cultura judeo-cristiana en el principio fue el Verbo, en la budista-hinduista fue el sonido. Por esto en <i><b>Kowloon</b></i> el sonido no acompaña sino que sustenta, envuelve, configura, es una vibración que describe el espacio, que forma parte de él y lo hace visible. El sonido es pieza vital del conjunto. Una pieza que no describe ni explica nada. Se limita a provocar un estado de conciencia en el espectador sostenido en la atención extrema, en la alerta. Son sonidos que no acabamos de identificar aunque en realidad reproduzcan grabaciones del Metro de Madrid, del bullicio y la confusión de las calles de Hong Kong, de la algarabía de las voces orientales de taxistas, de las de pájaros o grillos, de estruendos metálicos y sonidos orgánicos, casi táctiles que, de pronto, parecen quebrar el espacio como el corazón de un iceberg. Y todo ese ruido busca anular las referencias, el hilo discursivo… El pensamiento se suspende, la razón se aturde. Sólo queda sentir. Aparece entonces la inquietud, la extrañeza, el temor, el asombro o la angustia que van sucediéndose y solapándose a medida que el montaje discurre, a medida que el sonido se expande. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><i><b>Kowloon</b></i> trastoca todo. Tiempo y Espacio se ponen en juego. Decía Walter Benjamin que “el carácter destructivo sólo conoce una consigna: hacer sitio; sólo una actividad: despejar. (…) Hace sombras de lo existente, y no por los escombros mismos, sino por el camino que pasa a través de ella.” Es la misma idea que sustentaba la Anarquitectura de Gordon Matta-Clark (1943-1978) y de la que Kowloon se apropia a la hora de iluminar y reconfigurar el espacio: buscando el elemento ignorado, dirigiendo la mirada hacia lo oculto o parcelando el espacio para recomponerlo de nuevo y así mostrar su extrema fragilidad. LRM Performance utiliza los materiales como Matta-Clark utilizaba los picos y palas. Y al fragmentarse el espacio también lo hace el tiempo pues ambas dimensiones están unidas. El sonido nos lo recuerda de forma constante. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">En una de las escenas más evocadoras y líricas de <i><b>Kowloon</b></i>, una mujer avanza lentamente, tanto como el monje de Tsai Ming-Liang en Walker (2012), que hacía del gesto consciente toda una filosofía vital. La mujer está rodeada de vegetación y se escucha el canto de los pájaros. La escena se muestra a través de sombras chinescas y se enmarca con dos lienzos blancos en la parte superior e inferior del cuadro respectivamente. El espectador parece encontrarse de pronto sentado frente a una pantalla de cine en la que lo que está viendo, en realidad, no es la imagen proyectada sobre esa pantalla sino el espacio mismo en el que el cuerpo de la bailarina se desplaza. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">Una vez más, las sombras chinescas que remiten a la cultura oriental se funden con el concepto del cine tan afín a los inicios del cinematógrafo en Europa. Es inevitable imaginar a Georges Mèliés descubriendo esas sombras en Le Chat Noir, ideando fantasmas y hadas a través del celuloide. Lo mágico en esa escena delicadísima de <i><b>Kowloon</b></i> aparece a través de un espacio que se modifica según se inclinan los lienzos. Es así como lo bidimensional de la imagen se colma ante nuestros ojos de horizontes infinitos. Lo plano se despliega, se amplía, se multiplica, cobra profundidad. La sombra se hace cuerpo y los lienzos que antes simulaban una pantalla se transforman en alas o velas que se agitan acompasados por los brazos de la bailarina.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">Estas escenas de transición que estarían destinadas a deshacer lo representado se convierten en lo más valioso, en mi opinión, de Kowloon. En la misma destrucción reside la continuidad, que no es sino el origen de la siguiente escena. Se muestra el montaje, no se esconde. Ese es el mayor logro de <i><b>Kowloon</b></i>: exhibir el proceso mismo del guion, la estructura y el andamiaje de la producción. De hecho, los ensayos se graban en vídeo, de modo que lo que vemos es la escenificación en directo de un audiovisual donde los cortes de las secuencias, esto es, la edición, cobra relevancia. El tiempo, el ritmo del rodaje se muestra en el mismo espacio donde discurre, lo que daría para una reflexión profunda sobre la percepción misma del Tiempo cuando éste cobra protagonismo al trastocarse las magnitudes espaciales. No es este el lugar para ello. Sólo un apunte, recordando las palabras de Didi-Huberman: “El acorde fundamental que se oye resonar sin cesar a través de la masa del tiempo (…) toma aquí la forma de una onda que hay que entender como onda de choque y como proceso de fractura.” Sí, de nuevo el sonido.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">Y toda esta destrucción formal, toda la angustia y la claustrofobia, toda la oscuridad, toda la atmósfera subterránea que a veces inquieta y deslumbra como en la cueva de Apichatpong Weerasethakul en Tío Boonmee recuerda sus vidas pasadas (2010) otras ahoga como en la ciudad opresiva del Blade Runner (1982) de Ridley Scott y otras atemoriza como ante la entrada cubierta de plásticos del cementerio nuclear de Onkalo de Into Eternity (Michael Madsen, 2010), (umbral en el que solo cabe abandonar toda esperanza, por cierto)… ¿Adónde nos lleva?</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">No hay respuestas en <i><b>Kowloon</b></i>. Cada espectador obtendrá una experiencia única y cientos de interpretaciones, explicaciones o traducciones posibles, todas subjetivas. Comparto una de las mías: Puede que nos lleve a situar nuestro cuerpo como referencia central; A olvidar las magnitudes y límites, convenciones, influencias, teorías e ideas que nos separan de nuestro ser intuitivo, el que conecta con la piel y la emoción. Y puede también que nos lleve a recordar aquello que hace miles de años nos impulsó a tiznarnos los dedos y a manchar la pared húmeda de alguna cueva en Sulawesi o Cantabria.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"> I was lucky to be guest on one of LRM Performance (aka Locus) open studio sessions in which they present their latest piece, "<b>Kowloon</b>" to press, historians or curators. It's a quite presonal experience, since their main creative aim is on having no concept nor narrative into the work, thus allowing the observer to create them, if they will. So in this guise the compell you to liberate that primeval part of us all ruled by emotion, by intuition, by our skin. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">It is known how David Lynch, as a student of Fine Arts, found the key to what he wanted in painting when one of his paintings moved by the effect of a slight gust of wind. That oscillation caused a previously lacking disturbing effect in the strokes Abstraction came to life. Lynch himself explains it this way: "I wanted to get a tone, as if Mona Lisa opened up her mouth and turned and then listened to the sound of the wind, and then turned back to the starting position and smiled again" The major finding of Lynch are such abstractions, such scenes without context, those frames in motion that changed our way of making and understanding cinema.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Well, although in <b><i>Kowloon</i></b> the oriental influence is obvious from the very name of production, there is much of the Western postmodern legacy from which David Lynch's moving abstract painting is only a small reference. Interdisciplinarity, the heterogeneous assemblage of influences, currents and cultures that a priori seem to have little in common makes Kowloon an original and brave piece in today's performance art.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Thus, the capital importance of sound in <b><i>Kowloon</i></b> bring us back to european surrealist films (I am thinking of René Clair's Entr'Acte (1924), for instance) or those young Lynch short films (Six Figures Getting sick Six times (1966) was the first one), but It also reminds us of the sacred concept of the primal creative sound in eastern religions. And if in Judeo-Christian culture in the beginning was the Word, in the Buddhist-Hindu it was the sound. Thus in Kowloon sound does not simply accompanies; it supports, wraps, configures, it is a vibration describing the space, it is part of it and makes it visible. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"> "If you happen to work in cultural journalism and you are lucky to be in Madrid, maybe you can get the guys from <b>LRM</b> <b>Performance</b> -aka "<b>Locus</b>" - to invite you to attend one of their open rehearsals of <i>Kowloon</i>, their last performative piece based on the famous Hong Kong peninsula and mixing the traditions of western performance arts with aesthetics ripe with asian references.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">The piece, 56 minutes long and consisting of 22 sections which common thread is the music created by David Aladro-Vico, takes as its starting point the Walled City of Kowloon in Hong Kong, torn down in 1994 and now the Kowloon Walled City Park, which many of you surely have walked into. Kowloon was a political anomaly in Hong Kong, inherited from the imperial era, a sort conglomerate of immense variegated buildings barely lit up, with little ventilation, no running water and because of its 'lawless' locale condition housing a high amount of prostitutes, opium dens and dentists without qualification and was finally demolished in 1994 by Hong Kong authorities.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">However if you are expecting to see a narrative piece representing the history of the city, put it out of your mind. <i><b>Kowloon</b></i>, like all previous LRM Locus' works, is based on a search of emotions through traditional and contemporary dance, art, movement, music or architecture, expressly avoiding a narrative by including the widest possible set of influences, carefully assembled to generate emotions instead of a thread or concept.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">Influences may come from quite varied backgrounds, such as those referring to the work of architect and photographer Gordon Matta-Clark (1943-1978), but for us the most interesting are those from asian Art.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">As for the music, influences from Pierre Henry, Phil Niblock or Alvin Lucier are mixed with material of asian origin: Indonesian Gamelan, Japanese Gagaku (the hichiriki and Sho), traditional chinese music (the Suona, the Hulusi, Xiaoluo gong), Thailand (gongs) and Hong Kong (Houguan).</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">Also, influences from Asian cinema such as the work of Taiwanese Tsai Ming-Liang reflected in the sense of framing, time and movement and the kind of actions of the characters, or references to nature sounds, spirits that appear and disappear and nonlinear narrative in the work of Thai director Apichatpong Weerasethakul. Influences of the work of Wong Kar-Wai are also present through a sense of light and architecture of Hong Kong. And even the Japanese animation film is present through influences from Hayao Miyazaki, Satoshi Kon or Koji Morimoto.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">Finally, dance (superbly played by the young Chinese dancer Chen Zhihan) with careful and slow movements, also denotes the influence of the american Trisha Brown, the Japanese group of artists Dumb Type or the Legend Lin Dance Theater of Taiwan.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">However all these influences are just for reference because this being a non-conceptual creative process, it is the viewers who must make their own associations and interpretations in a free way.</span></div>
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<i> <b>Critique</b> of "<b>Kowloon</b>" by <a href="http://www.veronacontemporanea.com/index.php/fabio-zannoni/" target="_blank">Fabio Zanonni</a>, contemporary music critic for <b><a href="http://www.rumorscena.com/28/06/2016/kowloon-quando-e-la-materia-scenica-a-produrre-senso" target="_blank">Rumor(s)cena</a> </b>magazine - <b>english translation below</b></i><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">La obra “<b><i>Kowloon</i></b>”, de <b>LRM Locus</b>, aunque escapa a cualquier tentativa clasificatoria (<i>happening</i> o <i>performance</i> nos parecen términos ya obsoletos) y evita cuidadosamente recurrir a contenidos específicos, despliega una enorme capacidad para urdir tramas, para definir atmósferas nítidas y dimensiones emocionales de conflicto, opresión o extravío, e incluso para construir relatos. Erige de este modo un laberinto de sugerencias, dentro del cual el espectador es libre de elegir su personal itinerario interpretativo y de reconstruir la variedad de sensaciones visuales y sonoras que se acumulan, con ritmos alternos, durante la presentación. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><i> It is not easy to define the meaning of a scenic action that intentionally stands as non-semantic, which performance proceeds as </i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><i>self-generating </i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><i>stage-sound-light matter without any narrative program. </i></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><i>The piece "<b>Kowloon</b>" by LRM Locus, while escaping to any genre cataloging –happening or performance art seem obsolete terms already– and carefully avoiding to build-up any specific content,</i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><i> unfolds</i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><i> at the same time an enormous capacity for weaving textures, defining precise atmospheres, emotional dimensions of conflict, oppression or loss, and even creating stories. It 'a labyrinth of suggestions in which the viewer is left free to create a personal journey of interpretation and put together a variety of visual and sound sensations that pile up in alternate rhythms through the unfolding of the representation. </i></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><i>There is a superb usage of darkness, from which </i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><i>shapes of the beings of this world / planet </i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><i>emerge, first indistinct, then gradually more defined; also, luminiferous beams and gashes of bright, red, orange, blue lights. </i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><i>The vision is thus regulated by this dialectic of light and dark, and sound reception from that of silence and sound; sounds made up of clanging, hissing, concrete echoes from the quotidian and electronics. </i></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><i>So the environment in which the three characters </i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><i>move </i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><i>alternates moments of emptiness with others in which</i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><i> through constantly moving fabrics more or less oppressive environments, tunnels, caverns surge up…</i></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><i>Further on, sets of veils operated by artisanal theatrical machinery and projections on a tulle of random mechanisms of rotating objects in a box: The desire of impressing, the fascination of constant stimuli reveal an almost baroque intention. </i></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><i>If, on the one hand, a pure scenic matter is proposed - a combinatorial game of lights, movements, sounds - on the other, that of the public, it outlines the lattice of a complex search for meaning or a labyrinthine plurivocity of senses: post-atomic atmospheres, a veiled sense of fear and oppression, of the search for life in a dense state of uncertainty ...</i></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><i>With a </i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><i>precisely defined </i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><i>musical score, indeterminacy and randomness burst into the scene and become the key to a rigorous project, in our opinion it is right there where the interpretative thread of a maze of possible stories lies, which remain in the background as a horizon. </i></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><i>Definitely a project that ultimately establishes the superlative priority of the artisanal and material data, of action and performing of scenographical matter displayed as having a life of its own.</i></span></div>
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<i><b>LRM</b> ( "Locus", Rodo, Momentum or Place, Scraping, Time) is a group from Madrid focused on performance art. They define their works as abstract avoiding any narrative thread in their creations, where we can find music, light, dance and projections. Transdisciplinary performances that will not leave you indifferent.</i></div>
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<i><b>Berta -</b> David and I are the core of the collective. David comes from the world of musical composition, is MA in composition and I am an MA in Fine Arts. We met fifteen years ago at a Ute Lemper concert. We were interested in many artistic aspects, such as multidisciplinary work and we had many common references. Then we started making short musical improvisations with live digital media and physical painting; we also created some short video art pieces ... and thus our way of working was forged. We did some presentations of these works, for example in Matadero Madrid; the format was kind of a concert, we were sitting in a chair with the computer and two screens behind us.</i></div>
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<i><b>David -</b> Those first performances with prepared piano and painting improvisations happened in 2004 and then we had not a name yet. When we presented in Matadero In 2007 the piece was titled "Lugar, Roce, Momento (Place, Abrading, Moment), hence "LRM". In fact, in that piece already included movement, light, and overhead projections.</i></div>
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<i><b>D-</b> Someone recently told us we are "anti-disciplinary" rather than interdisciplinary; for we are not interested visual arts, music and movement alone, we are interested in a discipline that is none of these but contains all of them, because if it doesn't, we get bored [laughs]</i></div>
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<b>B- </b>With the need to learn, because every time we get into the studio it becomes a laboratory to try out everything at once: sound plus a structure, lighting, how to move with such structure, how we move ourselves in space ... it is an ongoing learning process and we build on those new learnings in every new piece. For example, when designing structures for composing a piece - which is usually made up of short scenes and each one has a particularity-.... there it is this need to discover, to learn. Presenting the piece is another kind of task altogether.</div>
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D- It also has to do with the fact of feeling trapped within your own discipline I think, the one you studied, for those are endogamic worlds. We have a craving for seeing what is on the other side, what is in there. In this sense, we somewhat like the total idea of cinema, bringing together all the elements, perhaps we are after something like live cinema.</div>
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<b>B- </b>We like Taiwanese director Tsai Ming-Liang. He has a very abstract cinematographic work. He works from scenes sometimes with a small plot, but not always fully narrative, some actions apparently have no meaning. We are struck by the way he composes the frame; the character enters and leaves the room but the framing is fixed. It is very contemplative.</div>
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Moreover, Apichatpong Weerasethakul from Thailand also makes a quite abstract kind of films, closely related to nature, where things take their time to happen. There is no such overwhelming directionality we find in Western movies, where the camera pushes the observer into pursuing the character's direction. This type of asian cinema does not have that directionality, the way they compose the image and its relationship with the character is important, but so is the environment, light, the temporality ... There is none of that western pressure for something to occur, Asian arthouse films do not consider that problem.</div>
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<b>D- </b>The perception of color in Asia is quite different from the West, it becomes evident in japanese Ukiyo-e prints, chinese opera, or traditional dances of Thailand. Also in many other cultures, like sub-saharan african colour and rhythm concepts which are very interesting.</div>
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<b>B-</b> We do, simply by living here we already have such influences. In this our latest work we had so much in mind Into Eternity (2010) a Michael Madsen documentary filmed in Finland about "Onkalo", a nuclear repository with kilometers of underground tunnels to store nuclear waste.</div>
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<b>D -</b> … we are quite excited about the work of Swedish film director Roy Andersson, his style is quite different to ours, a little more narrative, but it's still pretty abstract. And we can not deny we have a lot of influence of Goya, specifically his black paintings. We also got inspired by New York artist Gordon Matta-Clark (1943-1978) and his treatment of light in his works. Or Andrej Tarkovsky (1932-1986) films, like Stalker (1979). About dance, we were amazed by the work of british dance company DV8 and also by Legend Lin Dance Theatre, (which is not european but taiwanese).</div>
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<b>I- Why did you decide to include light, sound and other elements into your works?</b></div>
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<b>D- </b>guess we always regarded the video projector as some device emitting light rather than film. We then decided to buy an overhead projector and found it very interesting to work with shadows.</div>
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<b>B- </b>Light defines figures, volumes and space. Light and darkness are equally important to us. In darkness we set up what you will see later and the idea of light / shadow helped us a lot when devising each scene in time. Light is an important recourse to integrate a human figure because we do not want it to become too important, we want to merge it with the scene. It is a recourse for bringing public attention into the illuminated part, a way of composing. It is the remnants of painting in our work, in fact, some scenes become utterly pictorial.</div>
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<b>D- </b>Darkness is our blank canvas. But (for me) the most interesting thing about light is that it is temporary, so usually it goes along with music.</div>
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<b>I- How does this sound part of the work is created along with light changes, scenes ...?</b></div>
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<b>D- </b>by accumulating material and later in the studio assembling one thing with the other. Sometimes we start with a sound and want to do something with it, so we begin to try it with lights; sometimes even the sound demands for certain colorus, somewhat like synesthesia. Sometimes we have an already lit scene and add sound. Our procedures for devising each scene are diverse. </div>
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<b>I- How is your creative process?</b></div>
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<b>B-</b> It normally starts by thinking about structures built on bars, fastened with pins, using materials such as cloth, paper, plastic; considering how to light it up, what kind of bodily relationship we have with the structure, what movements are emerging around it ... At the same time we improvise with sounds or music David composed. We record many different tryouts. After a year and a half, as it was the case with the latest work, we end up with hundreds of tests. among these, we choose those we liked and from that selection we make a final sorting out, based on whether it is feasible to group them and perform them in succession, since it will be necessary for a scene's structure to be moved over for the next scene, and you have to see how to join scenes together. And thus an internal coherence of the work emerges. We love to have people over to the studio to see our work and hear what they think. If all visitors draw a similar conclusion, we often change elements in the work in order to make it more non-narrative. It is a task that goes beyond the investigation period.</div>
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<b>D -</b>Something we've always wanted to from the beginning is doing nothing narrative or conceptual. We think that is already tired. We want to do something that is telling no story, or that it's story lies inside each person's mind. We like our audience to use their imagination.</div>
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<b>B- </b>There is some fear for open works, for instance in cultural institutions… when presenting our work, we must indicate a topic, check a box ... That dictates much of people's works.</div>
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Also, when we comprise so many different elements into each action, most individuals coming from certain 1960's type of performance art find our work terrible. They (hypocritically) regard the usage of multiple light and sound elements as "selling out". </div>
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<b>I- Is there a heavy legacy of 60-70s performance art?</b></div>
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<b>B- </b>Yes. I think it's a problem in Spain, because here Performance art means performance as is was done in the sixties –a particular kind of performance art…and then you investigate a bit and learn there was a lot of people doing many different things in the sixties, including music, light ... awesome stuff. In Italy, for example, they have a freer conception of performance art, almost scenic.</div>
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<b>I- What condition is Spain's performance art in now?</b></div>
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<b>D </b>It is striking how performance art, coming from the 60s and seeking to be a liberation movement has stuck in the twentieth century; It has become intolerance instead of pluralism: a single criterion has been imposed. What is sought in it now is to "épater les bourgeois" -currently the gentrified-, with political support from institutions that are not precisely supporting the ideals those artists claim to defend, rather attacking them.</div>
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<b>B-</b> Performance art in Spain is always much associated to political issues or activism, usually improvised and with little toil, even if in its origin it was not necessarily that way. So when we say "this is also performance", some disagree because what we do is not a protesting, spontaneous or impromptu action.</div>
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<b>D -</b> We believe any political action must be done as a citizen, not as an artist, because the current situation invalidates any political discourse of a work; for example by the context in which it is exposed.</div>
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<b>I- If there is something you have in common with this performance art from the 60's tht is the usage of the body.</b></div>
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<b>B- </b>Yes, but it is the body in a context. In such so-called "classic" performances it is usually naked, and we do the opposite: we put on layers and layers and deform the body, using prosthetics or masks, somewhat in line with the Triadic Ballet: regarding the body as a part of the composition.</div>
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<b>D-</b> I get the impression that the use of the naked body in an empty space of the stereotypical performance art ends up being quite narcissistic. In that sense we do integrate the body with light, color and the environment, which are as important as the person.</div>
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<b>I- You say your performances are abstract and consisting of scenes. Did you ever fancy telling a story?</b></div>
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<b>B-</b> No, but what really is more complicated is not telling any story. Especially since our components' gender, we currently are two women and a man, and just because of gender people tend to see relationships where there is actually nothing. We have to see how to run the entire set of stimuli (music, light and movement) not to provoke a clear general feeling in the audience, such as sadness or joy ... There must always be elements preventing a predominant sensation and that is very difficult. So we work in a very formal way. If we want to include a scene in which someone falls down, we have to think about what kind of sound we may use so that it is not recognisable whether it was good or wrong that he fell down. That's when your mind starts working as an audience.</div>
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<b>D-</b> To achieve this effect we do things like mixing the sound of an iceberg with recordings of rhinos while one of us appears dressed in something like a Samurai armor, dragging objects indefinitely ... is a crazy mix, but your brain will try to assemble all and look for consistency, and that is what we try to avoid. </div>
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<b>I- Do you have any difficulty exhibiting in galleries or art circuits?</b></div>
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<b>B- n</b>ot difficulty, pain [laughs]. Especially because there are many adverse circumstances. There are many people interested in presenting our work but willy-nilly they will not not pay for it. There are centres and large institutions holding the belief that live arts are not to be paid for, and we refuse to work without being paid. We have been working with great effort for over ten years already. If you do not get paid everything is devalued, not just our work but the whole art system. And this restricts the possibilities to continue creating. </div>
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On the other hand, stylistically we must find someone who understands our work, which comprises several disciplines. We have been to art, music, theater, dance venues and festivals ... the best reception comes from non-specialists, generally audiences have no problem with us.</div>
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<b>D- </b>When dance people see our stuff, they say it is theater. When visual arts people see our stuff, they say it is dance. But when theatre people see it, they say it is not theater, rather visual art for them… We prepared our work so it can fit into any kind of space: auditorium, theater, art center ... for we have to be versatile. But in the end it depends on how open the programming or curating person is when deciding about giving us a spot or not.</div>
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<b>B-</b> Performance art is often regarded as a "pure" discipline that came from nowhere, although it usually feeds from the many sources available. Because we have many influences and there is nothing wrong in working from them. That's the problem. I think many times curators, programmers, etc., they need to get out of their so proudly closed world .</div>
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<b>I- How long took you to put together the latest work? Tell us a little about it </b></div>
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<b>B-</b> It's titled "Kowloon" and takes the name from a neighborhood of Hong Kong that interested us for its architecture. We had also seen a lot of films shot in that area in the 80s-90s. Certainly some of those influences from cinema and architecture are present but it is not a narrative or descriptive piece about Kowloon.</div>
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The difference from our previous work "Memory Root Light" is that it is much quieter and contemplative. We included new lighting colour, for before we only emplyed LED light, which provides a very specific range of colour, but now we include incandescent lights, which give a warmer colour. The montage of the scenes is more cinematic, there are more "frame shifts" </div>
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<b>D.-</b> is the first time we use no digital video projection.</div>
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<b>B-</b> No, we did not like how it looked like in this one, so we've worked hard with overhead and analog projectors customizing, transforming them, and we managed to coordinate their light with sound. In movement matters, we included more very slow motion, our previous work was much faster and could perhaps be perceived as more aggressive. We have further developed built structures that are now attached to the body, for before they were around.</div>
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<b>D. -</b> Also we included more natural sounds. We have sounds of Madrid, Hong Kong taxis, volcanoes ... used in a non narrative, not obvious way. For example, for some scene cicadas –recorded last August in Madrid – are mingled with the sound of an Antarctic iceberg.</div>
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<b>Do you contemplate video art as an option?</b></div>
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<b>D- </b>The problem is that what works live does not necessarily work in video, and this adaptation takes time. Actually, it is like making a new piece and you have to re-think it.</div>
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<b>B-</b> Now the main thing is to present the live work, then we will see other options.<br />
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<b>B- </b>traveling, meeting other environments and other artistic circles. We consider emigrating. Our previous piece could only be presented once in Spain, and looks like the same thing may happen with "Kowloon". So we have these two very elaborate works we would like to present, so to achieve this it seems to us we have to go abroad .</div>
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<b>D- </b>The art circuit in Spain is increasingly limited, the crisis has done much damage especially in terms of infrastructure, perhaps we were already worse off than other countries in Europe and that's why the crisis has been so catastrophic here in terms of artistic activity. In this regard we are considering searching for a market, find places where we may get a greater reception and a professional surrounding that is a little less closed in aesthetics.</div>
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<b>I- Finally, as usual, we ask you to recommend a book and a song to us… </b></div>
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<b>D- </b>song ... well, I'd say the music I recommend is "Coming Together" by Frederic Rzewski. And a book, "Memoirs Found in a Bathtub" by Stanislav Lem.<br />
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<b>B- </b>My song, that is the piece I recommend is "The Rite of Spring" by Igor Stravinsky and a book, "The Art of Spirited Away" by Hayao Miyazaki.<br />
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<b>Historian and researcher <a href="https://twitter.com/IdoiaHormaza/status/704793152356540419/photo/1?cn=ZmF2b3JpdGVfbWVudGlvbmVkX3VzZXI%3D&refsrc=email" target="_blank">Idoia Hormaza</a> has been to a general rehearsal of <i>Kowloon, </i>these are her <a href="https://thecockpithub.wordpress.com/2016/03/01/lmr-performance-locus-kowloon/" target="_blank">impressions</a>, from her blog <i> <a href="https://thecockpithub.wordpress.com/2016/03/01/lmr-performance-locus-kowloon/" target="_blank">The Cockpit hub</a> :</i></b></div>
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<i> ""In <b>Kowloon</b> nothing is what it seems.</i></div>
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<i>From pitch darkness, from absolute silence, a few points of flashing green light suddenly emerge flashing at the bottom. Almost immediately after a low sound reverberates with increasing intensity, a horn from a temple or a warning sound of war? If the sound was isolated a more vague reading may be construed, but it comes with a whitish light that reveals a colossal figure advancing ceremoniously with a disturbing outfit. With some extensions that open like arms, like the artful plumage of a peacock. With both hands it firmly holds and occasionally gee up two people crawling on the ground with difficulty</i></div>
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<i>Something happens, they revolt, the monster falls but in its horizontality gets metamorphosed into another being, remaining helpless and frozen. At that moment the roles are reversed and those who up until then were passive, armed by the opportunity, empty it out in a rapture of force pulling from its guts threads of white power.</i></div>
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<i>This scene starts <b>Kowloon</b>. <b>Alienating and rich in suggestions</b> it appeared to me either as coming from the beginning of a parallel civilization or a post-apocalyptic future. Or in my memory Kowloon begins with this scene.</i></div>
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<i>After that the three characters –are they really three or are them just three actors playing more? How do I know? They move in a strange place, they might be seeking, they may be working into whatever their strange ordinariness is. Everything is ambiguous, or rather in their serene movement acts, suddenly convulsive, everything could be happening.</i></div>
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<i><b>Music and light are one, that is the material their world is made of</b>. Its dimensions extend far beyond the physical and real space, that gets really forgotten, in spite of the ground and the physical laws. Projections of shadows that either are in the imagination of those creating entities or are for real, are presented as mobile warps echoing the rhythm of incomprehensible voices.</i></div>
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<i>These entities live as if everything was mechanical, as if there was no reflection. Seemingly they cannot see, so immersed as they are into their activity. But perhaps that's the feeling of the uninitiated who does not understand their rites, their searches; Perhaps it is actually a simple plan by which they mimetically and wisely relate to the environment. Or simply it all happens in times so apart from ours that <b>there is no grasp for reasoning and for that matter, every opportunity for dreaming is present, is simultaneous</b>. For the one who does not understand, it actually remains as <b>a phantom reality</b>.</i></div>
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<i><b>Kowloon</b> is not one, it is a many. How many ingredients from parallel worlds! ... An open tale of science fiction that allows multiple readings, which allows multiple no-readings. They are open oceans where you swim among stimuli rather than waves.</i></div>
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<i><b>Kowloon is cinema, is theater, is music, is light, is action, comics, is photography ... it comes as an electric current to shock, it comes as a soothing balm.</b></i></div>
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<i><b>And that is precisely the best of it, it's a cool respite invading and transporting you ... It does not matter nor is it necessary to know precisely where or when because just therein lies its essence, </b></i></div>
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<i><b>Kowloon is pure imagination.</b></i></div>
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You may read her full article <a href="https://thecockpithub.wordpress.com/2016/03/01/lmr-performance-locus-kowloon/" target="_blank">Here</a><br />
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<b> La Historiadora e investigadora <a href="https://twitter.com/IdoiaHormaza/status/704793152356540419/photo/1?cn=ZmF2b3JpdGVfbWVudGlvbmVkX3VzZXI%3D&refsrc=email" target="_blank">Idoia Hormaza</a> ha estado presente en un ensayo general de <i><u>Kowloon</u>, </i>estas son sus:</b><br />
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<i> "<b>Kowloon</b> no es uno, son muchos. ¡Cuantos ingredientes de mundos paralelos!… <b>Son océanos abiertos donde se nada entre estímulos en vez de olas</b>.</i><br />
<i><b>Kowloon es cine, es teatro, es música, es luz, es acción, es cómic, es fotografía… llega como la corriente eléctrica para sacudirte, llega como un bálsamo para sosegarte.</b></i><br />
<i><b>Y precisamente eso es lo mejor, es un respiro fresco que te invade y te transporta… Tampoco importa ni es necesario saber dónde ni cuándo porque precisamente ahí reside su esencia, en la desubicación absoluta.</b></i><br />
<i><b>Kowloon es imaginación en estado puro.</b></i><br />
<i><b>Belleza acústica y visual. "</b></i><br />
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Puedes leer el artículo completo <a href="https://thecockpithub.wordpress.com/2016/03/01/lmr-performance-locus-kowloon/" target="_blank">aquí</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13729323.post-14216996027337332932015-12-06T13:05:00.000+01:002015-12-06T23:15:04.322+01:00LRM participa en el debate "La performance y lo performático"<div style="text-align: justify;">
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LRM / Locus participará este miércoles en el debate <b>La performance y lo performático</b> junto a los artistas Juan Yuste, Patricia Landabaso, José A. Vallejo, Óscar Pastor y moderado por Nuria García. Este evento está organizado por VeoArte y se enmarca dentro de la <a href="http://www.lanauespaciocreativo.com/#!semana-grande/cduf" target="_blank">Semana Grande</a> de Lanau Espacio Creativo.</div>
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<span class="fsl"><span class="text_exposed_show">El evento podrá seguirse por streaming desde <a href="https://www.periscope.tv/VeoArte" target="_blank"><b>Periscope</b></a></span></span></div>
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También podrá seguirse con el hashtag #arteyuncafe en Twitter</div>
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<b>La performance y lo performático</b></div>
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<i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Por David Aladro-Vico y Berta Delgado – </span></i><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">LRM Performance-Locus</span></i></b></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><i>Performance</i>, performativo, performancístico, performática, performancear... ¿LA performance? ¿EL performance? ¿es un...o una...performance? Performance, según el diccionario de Oxford significa "Interpretación" o "Ejecución", "Llevar a cabo una acción". Para algunos, a veces, simplemente "Acción". En el contexto artístico, "Performance art" según Oxford es: "An art form that combines visual art with dramatic performance" <i>Dramático</i>, a su vez se puede referir al arte dramático, lo que se conoce coloquialmente como Teatro. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">En ese caso se trataría de una combinación de elementos preexistentes. Pero sus adeptos definen como una forma de arte de creación actual, incluso del futuro, pues rompe radicalmente con el pasado, así que no me queda claro si hay ejemplos del XIX o anteriores. Quizá se basan en una percepción concreta de la historia o del tiempo, como lo son todas.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Sí, es verdad que en muchos casos esta forma de arte me parece dramática – en todas sus acepciones– incluso trágica, seria como la neumonía, o patética o hasta peripatética y melodramática. En ese caso, <i>performance</i> sí podría tener alguna relación con el siglo XIX, el romanticismo y como decía C. J. Cela, su "falta de higiene mental". </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Pero ahí Wikipedia, taxonomista <i>superstar</i>, me avisa de la ambigüedad del término <i>Performance</i>, y zanja la cuestión: Not to be confused with <i>Performing arts</i>.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">También dice Oxford: "an art form in which an artist gives a performance, rather than producing a physical work of art" – un artista ejecuta una acción, antes que producir una obra de arte "física". Según esta definición, una acción no pertenece al mundo físico, sino a otro que no es explicado, lo mental o lo etéreo, a veces llamado conceptual. Pero yo no comparto esas divisiones dualistas entre un mundo físico y otro mental, conceptual o etéreo. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Y me sigue sin estar claro qué es <i>performance</i>, pero los esfuerzos taxonomistas por tener clara y cerrada su definición son cada vez más abundantes y perseverantes. Respaldan y vigilan esa labor taxonómica mediante etimología, historiografía, sociología... todo esfuerzo es bienvenido en la incansable labor taxonómica del hombre occidental. Porque es importante investir a tu término de poderes sobrenaturales, eternos e indiscutibles, como son la Historia con mayúsculas o el consenso social. <i>There's safety in numbers</i>, sean años, lugares o personas. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Me parece que la taxonomía es a la creatividad lo que la taxidermia a los seres vivos. Con razón decía un profesor mío que los diccionarios son cementerios de metáforas. El arte y la metáfora suelen tener cosas en común: su significado no es literal, por lo que no puede ser definido sin su contexto; un objeto o acción se convierte temporalmente en símbolo o representación de otro objeto o acción. Es importante esto de temporal y contextualmente; en el momento en que el significado se cierra, deja de ser temporal y contextual, deja de ser una metáfora para ser una definición. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Pero yo quiero ir más allá, creo que la función del arte NO es transmitir significado. Para eso ya está el lenguaje, que hace lo que puede. Y además, creo que el arte no debe ser interpretado, porque perderá su efecto y razón de ser, como decía Susan Sontag. Que la metáfora no debe ser explicada porque acabará descansando en paz en un diccionario, o en Wikipedia. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Los taxonomistas, cuya labor es evitar que se cuestionen las cosas, se empiezan a poner verdaderamente nerviosos con esto. Su trabajo es fijar aquello que es temporal, y darle armas, defenderlo – y así se encuentran entregados a la definición, (etimológicamente, <i>poner un fin</i>) la codificación, clasificación, organización, disposición, catalogación, sistematización, y todos sus sinónimos y sus relaciones (incluyendo <i>comisariado</i>, por supuesto). Y como dije antes, a su vigilancia: están y siempre han estado dispuestos a perseverar. De hecho, recuerdo haber leído en alguna parte, "La política postmoderna es una contienda por la percepción y sus reglas". Creo que esa guerra surgió mucho antes de la postmodernidad, aunque quizá se ha acentuado desde el siglo XX. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">La poderosa Historia está pues repleta de ejemplos de cánones establecidos, reforzados, desafiados y derribados y vueltos a recuperar y vueltos a derribar. Hay todo un entorno profesional, una industria tanto alrededor de los que hablan sobre ellos como de los que elaboran arte del que derivar los cánones.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Son mundos muy competitivos. Tienen la idea de que <i>sólo puede quedar uno</i> y deben cortarse la cabeza unos a otros. De hecho, la labor taxonómica resultante suele reflejarlo: tienen tendencia a unificar lo plural y pluralizar lo único, para poder acotar bien sus definiciones. En un acto de reduccionismo radical de la realidad, escogen a un artista (de <i>performance</i>, ya que estamos) y hacen que sea el ejemplo único, y el canon extraído de ese ejemplo se impone a todos los demás, artistas o pensadores, excluyendo los que no encajen. Mediante la <i>Katana</i>, si hace falta. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Me parece algo obvio, pero muy a menudo es necesario recordar la diferencia entre copiar y crear. Toda labor creativa (sea en arte, ciencia o cualquier actividad) pasa obligatoriamente por cuestionar en alguna medida los cánones, estéticos o perceptivos en general. Ser taxonómico no es el objetivo, ni integrarse en una visión concreta de la actividad artística, más bien al revés, así que disculpen si hay gente creativa también dispuesta a perseverar. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Bueno, pero por encima esas pugnas recordemos que tanto al tratar con arte o crearlo (o cualquier otra actividad) no es aceptable entrar en el terreno de la psicopatía – entiéndase el término como la falta de capacidad de empatía o remordimientos, sociopatía, o indiferencia o desprecio por los demás. Esta característica psicológica es habitual en ambientes profesionales muy competitivos como por ejemplo la política, Wall Street o el ambiente de los de artistas y comisarios famosos. Con <i>Katana</i> o sin ella. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Hace tiempo me fijé en un texto de Alan Kaprow, <i>How to make a Happening </i>de 1966. (Por cierto que "Happening" "Intermedia" y otras eran palabras relacionadas con <i>performance</i>, pero que la taxonomía ha domesticado) En el texto, Kaprow define su cánon estético exponiendo once puntos. Como todos los cánones, define lo que se debe hacer como de lo que no se debe, explícitamente o no. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Definir una posición artística no es habitual ni tiene por qué serlo en un artista; puede trabajar sin explicar su método ni principios –este sector se dedica a la manufactura, y explicar o definir es más labor obligada del otro sector. Pero piense en la libertad que esto da para elaborar explicaciones adecuadas al objetivo del taxonomista, que no tiene porqué ser el mismo que el del artista. Aunque a menudo el artista acaba haciendo de todo, elaboración, <i>marketing</i> y hasta <i>merchandising </i>. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Ya han pasado casi cincuenta años desde aquel texto, y más aun de lo que se considera el orígen del<i> performance art. </i>Así pues,<i> </i>puedo considerar que sus ideas han pasado sobradamente por el filtro taxonómico<i>,</i> y están ya bien definidas y listas para descansar en paz en Wikipedia o en más ilustres panteones. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Nuestro trabajo como colectivo artístico se desarrolla en el mundo de la manufactura, no de la taxonomía, pero como decía, dado que la situación lo requiere, hemos elaborado un texto similar al de Kaprow. Entiéndase bien que no tenemos ningún problema con la obra de Kaprow ni de ninguno de sus contemporáneos, podemos disfrutar de ella y de la de muchos otros artistas que responden a sus principios, sin que eso suponga que los compartamos ni que queramos eliminarlos. Así pues, con todo respeto, simplemente para continuar aportando a la tradición de romper con la tradición, hemos observado que bastaba con <b>revertir</b> los principios expresados por Kaprow para generar unos más acordes con nuestra época y forma de pensar. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">De esta manera, estos serían <b>nuestros principios</b>:</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">1) <i>Happening</i>, o <i>performance</i> y similares ya son formas estándar. Así pues, puedo olvidarme de ellas, o mejor, <b>olvidarme</b> <b>de la propuesta</b> <b>de olvidar las formas estándar, </b>como ya son las de Kaprow y otros artistas de <i>performance</i>. (En realidad, ésa ya era una idea de la postmodernidad de hace más de veinticinco años).</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">2) <b>Separa bien lo que es arte de lo que es vida real, </b>pues mezclar arte y vida real para "<b>salir del arte</b>", que la barrera entre arte o vida real sea difusa <b>ya es parte habitual del mundo del arte</b>. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">3) <b>Utiliza tu imaginación para crear</b>. No te distraigas con el exterior. <b>Si te atienes demasiado a lo real y usas situaciones reales o <i>readymade,</i> volverás al arte preexistente. No utilices la realidad. Elabora. </b>Rechaza lo arbitrario. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">4)<b> Utiliza un espacio concreto, bien definido y determinado. Rechaza usar cualquier espacio, especialmente los públicos o improvisados, y los muy grandes. </b>No sirve cualquier lugar ni de cualquier tamaño, eso ya se ha hecho antes. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">5) <b>Rechaza el tiempo real. Puedes y debes manipular el tiempo, porque no pertenece a la realidad. Coordina lo que haces. Controla el tiempo, sácalo de la realidad. </b>Ajusta la acción a tu tiempo controlando ambos. Dejar la duración al azar o a la conveniencia de la acción realizada ya se ha hecho antes. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">6) Dispón los eventos de tu obra de la misma manera, <b>coordina y controla el contenido</b>. Adapta las cosas a lo que quieres, no al revés. <b>Planifica</b>, aunque cierta escolástica de composición de <i> performance </i> te diga que es mejor no hacerlo – <b>el elemento sorpresa sólo vendrá cuando las cosas estén bajo control</b>. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">7) Como estás haciendo un trabajo y no cualquier cosa,<b> tú creas las reglas.</b> No dejes que el entorno decida lo que puedes o no puedes hacer. <b>El entorno es precisamente lo que tú has de crear</b>, y no dejar ese trabajo a la realidad. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">8) <b>No trabajes para los poderes que tienes alrededor, no te harán las cosas más fáciles. </b>No esperes su aprobación, pues no es simplemente hacer cosas lo que buscas. No seas oportunista ni advenedizo, ni creas que eso te llevará al fin del mundo.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">9)<b> Practica y haz pruebas y ensayos, repite.</b> No repetir ya se ha hecho, y te hace creer que no hay nada que mejorar. Busca <b>estudiar y practicar, </b>es la única manera de ser natural.<b> No existen trucos ni atajos, hay que trabajar las cosas para que parezcan naturales, hechas sin esfuerzo.</b> </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">10) Presenta varias veces tu obra, <b>serializa</b>. <b>No repetirla la hace vulgar, irrelevante, o presuntuosa y frívola,</b> como es la <i> performance</i> que ya se ha hecho. No repetir te hace creer que es perfecta y que eres un genio. Tu misión es <b>repetir precisamente aquello que parece imposible que se vuelva a dar</b>. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">11) No tengas problema en que lo que haces sea <b>un espectáculo</b> para un <b>público</b>. <b>Una performance ES un espectáculo</b>, en contra de lo que los libros te dicen, no hay diferencia entre <i>performance</i> y el teatro o concierto: lo que buscas es que sea visto y crear un efecto en la audiencia. No estas <b>jugando, ni haciendo actividades al azar o pueriles</b>, <b>ni</b> <b>rituales</b> <b>pseudo-religiosos que aspiran a ser intelectualmente de "mayor altura"</b>. No te aproveches de alguien que no es una audiencia diciendo que les vas a implicar, o que va a interactuar, es un truco muy usado ya. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Por último, y como añadido a estos puntos, comentar que para el taxonomista del <i>performance art</i>, la palabra <b>espectáculo </b>define por antítesis la posición política del artista de<i> performance, </i> que rechaza "venderse" o contribuir a la alienación que produce el arte tradicional o el de masas. Basado en una posición política coetánea a la de Kaprow expresada en textos como<i> La sociedad del espectáculo de </i>Guy Debord o de la Internacional Situacionista, o también en la posición de Deleuze y Guattari, nos parece que <b>esa posición política corresponde a una realidad de hace cincuenta años </b>y que en 2015 no sólo no ha lugar por carecer de efectividad política en la dirección que ellos dicen tener, sino que <b>sirve al pensamiento contra el que dice oponerse</b>, el del capitalismo –como señala por ejemplo Slavoj Žižek, y aunque pretendan lo contrario, <b>está completamente asumida – alienada–por una economía de mercado y resignada a ello</b>. Y además, muy lejos de la actitud de los años 60, se ha vuelto <b>intolerante con el pluralismo</b>, sea político o artístico. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Propongamos pues, una salida hacia adelante. </span></div>
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