Invisible Cities

Invisible Cities is a cho­re­o­grap­hic and sound per­for­man­ce con­cei­ved for a set of tech­ni­cal objects/​bodies and a sin­gle human body. This per­for­ma­ti­ve pro­ject explo­res the reso­nan­ces of the peri­p­hery within the cen­ter, addres­sing the invi­si­bi­li­ty of the mar­gi­nal and tech­ni­cal bodies by brin­ging them into focus. The work ques­ti­ons the hier­ar­chies invol­ved in cen­ter – peri­p­hery dyna­mics from two dif­fe­rent ang­les: the cen­trist logic ope­ra­ting in migra­ti­on flows, and the logic that rele­ga­tes tech­ni­cal objects to the peri­p­hery of the the­a­tri­cal mecha­nism whi­le assig­ning cen­tra­li­ty to the human body.

A peri­p­he­ral human body arri­ves at the cen­ter, its sta­tus is dimi­nis­hed. It enters the sha­dow of its own invi­si­bi­li­ty but then it comes to focus anew.How can this body — coming from the peri­p­hery to the cen­ter and redu­ced to its sha­dow — come into focus wit­hout dis­pu­ting the cen­tra­li­ty? How can the peri­p­hery reso­na­te within the cen­ter whi­le ack­now­led­ging the pro­cess of invi­si­bi­li­za­ti­on it has end­ured?The pie­ce inte­gra­tes ele­ments from the­a­tre, cho­re­o­grap­hic per­for­man­ce, sound instal­la­ti­on and visu­al arts. It is com­po­sed by two parts. First, a sound instal­la­ti­on pro­vi­des orien­ta­ti­on to the visi­tors in a dark room, pro­gres­si­ve­ly the tech­ni­cal devi­ces of the sound instal­la­ti­on beco­me visi­ble and the spa­ce shifts. The acti­on that shifts the spa­ce beco­mes per­for­ma­ti­ve taking the mate­ri­al to the second part whe­re tech­ni­cal objects and human body per­forms together.Conceived as a trans­dis­ci­pli­na­ry pie­ce, Invisible Cities needs a non-con­ven­ti­o­nal spa­ce (or con­ven­ti­o­nal spa­ce that can be used non-con­ven­ti­o­nal­ly). Its ver­sa­ti­li­ty allows to be per­for­med together or by parts depen­ding on the pos­si­bi­li­ties of the venue