This piece by Vallaure, Lamata and Musicco is a pivotal work in the history of video performance in Spain. With great doses of humour and freshness, this piece offers us an exploration of performance, its codes and languages. The authors use a simple and easy to recognise structure, a tour of the alphabet in order to, with each letter, peruse ways of doing, resources, possibilities and doubts having to do with the art performance. The piece, aware of the absurdity that it constitutes, displays great doses of lucidity, which shows in the dialogues, the comments and the clarifications given by the two main characters in the video. On occasions this couple, due to their acting, reminds us of a classic comedy pair, such as Tip y Coll. Their prosody is quick and sharp, and although their dialogue is of a humorous nature, they manage to generate quite profound reflections of a political character. The impact of this work in the ulterior development of performance in Spain is undeniable. It sets the stage for a way of critically approaching an artistic genre, which is in certain cultural circles difficult to accept. Vallaure has continued to work in the field of the happening and the performance and is no doubt one of its major exponents.
UntitledTV
20 Archival description results for TV
Terrible agents infiltrated by secret psychic media taps.
There's a Devil Loose
UntitledOrganized by spasms, repetitions and micro scratches, CHAOS results from a nervous shock to the simultaneous contradictions of media reporting.
Something happened on the Spanish-Moroccan border in Autumn 2005. A thing that is still happening today in other places and in other ways. Hundreds of sub-Saharans used ladders to cross a European border. Weapons, rubber bullets, death. Thousands were deported to the Sahara desert. Death. Spanish television broadcast images of an accelerated war. Just bodies, not individuals. Something we watched. Returning to the place where it all happened we find nothing but empty space. A landscapes without traces. What remains, that fence. How is it possible to create new representations that don't get lost in the oversaturation of images that present migrants as victims? Others had already asked themselves the same question. A group of Congolese refugees is stuck in Morocco waiting to reach Europe. They have created a theatre piece based on their experiences of migration. In the room where they live each day, it takes shape as a self-representation of each step along the path. But it is not a finished work. There is no audience and no stage, just a work waiting for its ending.
The sky is burning! Portrait of Germán.
Non-Identified Video Observatory (OVNI)Gaza, War in Media presents a series of interviews that challenge the official Spanish media account of Israel's Operation Cast Lead, in which 1,400 Palestinians died and 5,000 people were wounded, most of them civilians. According to this version, Israel was “defending itself” from the launch of Qassam rockets by Hamas, by massive bombardments to destroy the “infrastructure” of this “terrorist” group. In reality, the bombardments and the ground offensive by the Israeli army targetted the civilian population of the Gaza Strip, as shown by the Goldstone report commissioned by the UN Human Rights Council.
The search for light leads to fire.
TV performance: desire, memory, economy.
The fascist's drool.The spit dribbling from the corner of the mouth of a fascist grows and reproduces at the rhythm of history. In the mid 70s, a revolting drool dribbles from the mouth of a rabid and nostalgic fascist, and takes on a life of its own. Black and white memories, dreams, drugs, childhood, sex and politics mixed arrhythmically animate the drool. In "La baba del fascista", original images are mixed with images from films, documentaries and tv programs.
Untitled