How is the accelerated transformation of consuming and producing images affecting the languages of the performing arts? In this new scopic regime, which is now also cognitive, affective and relational, bodies and their performativities are the preferred medium of inscribing and transmitting, just as they are on stage. Can the performing arts therefore provide tools and strategies in the current crisis of the image?
Non-hegemonic dance and theatre have operated as a symptom or reflection of each era’s malaise, or as a response to it. Similarly, in experimental performance practices today, we find artists problematising and expanding the spectrum of relationships with images, affirming singular, diverse and disruptive worlds that challenge algorithmic flows, trends and temporalities.
In the face of the homogeneity and uniformity of languages, which are consumed and disappear as quickly as commodity images, this investigation suggests ways of resisting the omen announced by its title. All Images Will Disappear therefore proposes identifying, unpacking, showcasing and circulating ways of doing in performance arts today that encourage alternative, critical and persistent visualities from which we can conspire towards new horizons of action.
An artist, curator and researcher specialising in performance arts, he curated the Domingo Festival at La Casa Encendida, the Secuencia season at Fabra i Coats, the programmes Desbordes: otra historia del ojo (Spillovers: Another History of the Eye) at Punto de Vista, Lo que nos mueve (What Moves Us) at La Caldera, Vivac at La Plaza in Verano (Matadero), residencies at the Spanish Cultural Centre in La Paz and the ‘Eléctricas utopías en la noche púrpura’ (Electric Utopias in the Purple Night) conference at Injuve. He was the coordinator and co-artistic director of Teatro Pradillo in Madrid.
His artistic work is included in the CA2M collection and the Matadero Creators Archive, and it has been exhibited at many national and international institutions. He was a member of the PLAYdramaturgia collective and was an artist-in-residence at La Caldera, Graner, La Casa Encendida and L’Estruch.
He has written handheld programmes for Teatros del Canal and Conde Duque, and his work has been published in catalogues such as Querer parecer noche (CA2M). He is also the author of numerous reviews and interviews on his Teatron blog.
He teaches classes and workshops in settings such as Bar Yola alongside Javi Cruz.
He currently co-directs Teatron and is a member of Fondo, a space at FOC dedicated to research in the performing arts.