Claudia Faci and Marta Azparren
| Performers: | Marta Azparren and Claudia Faci |
| Lighting and sound: | Óscar Villegas |
| Texts by: | Chantal Maillard, Paul B. Preciado, Claudia Faci and Marta Azparren |
| Thefts, amendments and quotes of: | Pina Bausch, Gilles Deleuze, Jean-Luc Nancy, Giorgo Agamben, Hélène Cixous, Marguerite Yourcenar, Judith Butler, Victor Stoichiță and Evangelios |
| Video: | A. Baggs, M. Antonioni, Carl Dreyer, J. Genet and M. Azparren |
| Voice-overs: | Julio Cortázar, Marta Vega and Chantal Maillard |
| Acknowledgements: | Marta Vega, Mikolaj Bielski, Teatro Pradillo, Réplika Teatro, Lucas Condró, Jesús Barranco and Raul Marcos |
La línea de los fantasmas
M. Magdalena / Noli me tangere
“Our sexes share the material of our eyes”.M. Azparren
During the forced lockdown of bodies in their respective niches or palaces, the body of M. explores strategies to overcome the distance that separates them from their lover. Faced with the prohibition of contact, they discover subversive strategies for proximity, haptic manoeuvres that also make light of temporal obstacles. The body as the last interface. Desire, in a resistance to the same power that confines it, creates tools and language to penetrate that which is hermetic (of Hermes) and reach the glorious body.
_ M.M: Similar to the iconography of Noli me tangere, the line of desire is a diagonal
La línea de las conquistas
Tomás / El dedo en la llaga
“Love is the touch of that which is open”.J-L. Nancy
C. Tomás, on the other hand, does not submit to the love of ghosts. They prefer body to body contact. What cannot be done can still be mentioned. They wish to touch, to cleave, to squeeze, to crush, to smoothen, to scratch, to rub, to rip, to palpate, to probe, to knead, to push, to hit, to pinch, to bite, to hold, to shake, to tap, to lick, to rock, to handle, to weigh... everything that is a matter of touch, of touch between bodies. They wish to conquer the distances that separate them from the bodies that they desire, the bodies that are reading these lines. The goal of this writing is but to touch. More precisely, to touch the body, or your body.
_ C.T: The diagonal is the true line of intensity. The intensity of what? The intensity of the fall.
Lo común
“There is no thought without body”.C. Faci
The confined body, the glorious, the expectant, the incredulous, the infected body, the body-place, the body-memory, all the bodies of a body, the post-body. What are they or can they be agents of, each and every one of them? What is their performative capacity, their capacity to act? What is their margin of transgression? What is the ethical and political statute of corporeal life?
Returning desire to bodies must be our aesthetic-political mandate. And it is urgent. We refer to this desire that is identical to the vitality that penetrates us and becomes conscious.
Claudia Faci
is a dancer, choreographer, actor, teacher and independent author. She has
participated in many different kinds of productions. Since 2006, her work
has focused essentially on creations to embody her unique view of the stage
arts, through a work that is based on her experiences in dance, theatre,
performance art and literature.
Her stage proposals act directly upon the relations that sustain theatre,
blur the lines between the subject and object, between the onlooker and the
recipient of the gaze, and invite us to reflect on the notion of authorship
as set by market rules. She has participated in international festivals
such as Escena Contemporánea, Temporada Alta, the Autumn Festival, Grec
Festival and Chantiers d'Europe.
In the last ten years, she has collaborated with various artists including
Chantal Maillard, Mónica Valenciano, Jaime Conde-Salazar, Fernando Renjifo,
Óscar Villegas, Pablo Messiez, Lucas Condró and the groups MaDam and
Terrorismo de Autor. She maintains an open dialogue with all of them, which
is an essential component of the evolution of her work. She also conducts
regular workshops on creation in different training centres, theatres,
festivals and other places.
Marta Azparren
is a visual artist. She moves between video, performance art, installation
art and drawing. She graduated in Fine Arts and film and contemporary
audiovisual studies, and her works have been screened and awarded at
multiple international film and video festivals, exhibitions and art fairs.
Her work is a meta-reflection on artistic activity with special focus on
the links between the creator, the spectator, the work of art, and the
internal machinery of mediation, production and exhibition. She focuses her
gaze on what is not visible within the visual, on what is absent,
discarded, what does not take place. A documentation of the margins.
She has directed some stage pieces and collaborates regularly with
contemporary theatre and dance companies as a performer or making
installations and videos integrated into the plays or as a VJ. On stage,
she has collaborated with Fernando Renjifo, Rocío Molina, Tania Arias,
Jesús Barranco, Patricia Ruz and musicians such as Sergio Blardony, Pablo
Martin Jones, Sigma Project, Juan J. Ochoa and Ensemble/Parallax, among
others. Her stage pieces have been shown, among others, in the festivals
Escena Contemporánea, Autumn Festival, SISMO, Surge, Citemor and Veranos de
la Villa.