CRACK

Visual Art Performance | Royal Central School of Speech and Drama | London 2016

In collaboration with Alegia Papageorgiou + Laura Cuervo Restrepo

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What happens if we break the frame?

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CRACK is an ongoing performing research project, exploring the boundaries between visual art and performance art. 

Experimenting with projections of static + moving images interacting with bodies, sound + movement, while using different materials and projection surfaces in space, allows us to create combined realities on stage. The embodiment of images in real space + time may lead to the formation of another perform language, an anti-language, being able to communicate information beyond the barrier of language, race and culture. 

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During the 1930´s the camera was starting to be used for political propaganda, authorities took advantage of it by framing realities, controlling and oppressing masses.

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“I filmed the truth as it was then, nothing else.” (Leni Riefenstahl)

 

"The movie Triumph of the Will represents an already achieved and radical transformation of reality: history become theater. In her book published in 1935, Riefenstahl had told the truth. The Nuremberg Rally “was planned not only as a spectacular mass meeting—but as a spectacular propaganda film….” Anyone who defends Riefenstahl’s films as documentaries, if documentary is to be distinguished from propaganda, is being ingenuous. In Triumph of the Will, the document (the image) is no longer simply the record of reality; “reality” has been constructed to serve the image."  (Susan Sontag, Book: Fascinating Fascism)

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We are exploring the possibility of a visually structured event that formulates a different experience of time + space. By embodying past images we seek to create new relations between past and present in order to step out of the comfort and issues produced by linear understanding. As a conceptual approach, we used projections of pictures of our own childhood combined with pictures of own experiences in political activism. Individual and collective relationships establish the social frames in which we work and live in. When we present memories of our past, we un-frame a structured viewpoint that has been presented to us. As human beings 90% of the words and concepts are reflected in our brain as an image. In this way, using memories as a conceptual topic, we aim to see them as the inner world of the person within the society. We can see through or under the skin of the performer. Its like a surgical incision to their inside world, combining and overlapping frames of culture, space + time.  

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