The Tower

 The Tower

work in progress...

https://vimeo.com/147463347

An interactive project, inspired in both The Babel Tower story and the recent attacks in Europe and Middle East.

The sound of the video features several women's voices. All of them are reading a homemade bread recipe; each one in her own language.

The pre-recorded video, which depicts an image of me seated and reading my grandmother’s homemade bread recipe from my mother’s cookbook, will be projected on to the screened, front windows of the ACSF 924 building during Art week.  The screen is divided into three panels.  In one of the three panels, I appear standing and reading the same recipe live, in real time.  In order to accomplish this live component, I will stand in front of a green screen in a room, from which my image will be projected onto the one third of the three panels screen alongside the other two other images of me. Simultaneously,  pedestrians on Lincoln Road (where the screen will be installed), will be invited to read a homemade bread recipe (in various languages) while seated in a red chair, identical to the red chair in the video. The images of pedestrian participation will appear intermittently on the screen, alternating with the image of my live performance; either me or the person reading will appear on the third part of the screen.

There are no statements for this piece but rather provocative shots. Womanhood and bread as unifiying, universal elements; language as symbolic representation of separation and division. Issues of cause and effect are explored as well

The different vocal recordings are manipulated as sound tracks, creating a sense of space and giving control to each language during different moments.

 

An exploration at the Senior Center

https://vimeo.com/145870528

Metamorfosis 1

Senior Center, North beach

In this series of liminal echoes between “social sculptures” and “relational aesthetics” work my aim is to bring contemporary art experiences to the senior community creating a playful environment where I loose control of the Action surrendering myself to their control, decisions and proposals. I became material for them. I “provoke” them by bringing one material and asking them what could we do with it. Another tool of provocation is the camera siting on the tripod, they know they will be filmed, to my surprise they like it.

After the action is done, I record their reflections, comments and thoughts about the experience.

The last step comes with the edition, I always use the voice recordings overlaps in different channels of the video, creating depth and form on the space with the channels and the textures that comes from the different languages and accents as they come from a variety of places.

El Juego, la Materia & el Ego

https://vimeo.com/144651650

https://vimeo.com/142752991

Exploring transformations between image and sentences.

Currently I’m exploring possibilities by producing actions that are initially recorded on video. After a process of recording the sound separately, I add it to the video. Once the two elements are together (image and sound), the work becomes a video production, where the two elements transform each other.
In my new work I’m performing my actions with different environments relationship: interacting with the public (as in “Action #1”); inside my studio, (as I did for “Colchonero, memory #1” and “El Juego, la Materia y el Ego”); or walking out my studio (as in “Embodying Space”).
Simultaneously to the production of these actions, I’m taking fieldwork workshops, with a group of artists from different disciplines; the particularity of this workshop is that we don’t know each other and even less  each other’s work and/or practice.
During the Fieldwork Workshop each artist presents a piece of a work in progress or finished work. The artist is not  allowed to say anything about it; each artist has few minutes to exhibit it. After all the artists' work presentations, each one will receive one by one feedback on feelings, comments and reactions to the artwork. This is not a critique session, since there is no information given but the visual observation.
It is during these workshops that I record what they say about my performances videos, and after each workshop I add the recordings to the video of the action I showed to them.
I’m focusing in the liminal echo between the visual and the voices whose words come from their own projection that my action activates on them. My action then is the canvas for their own issues, thoughts, culture, experiences and vocabulary. 

Embodying Space

https://vimeo.com/141559987