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Cartografía del cuerpo en un espacio arquitectónico
Mapping of the body in an architectural space
Alicia Soto – Hojarasca
Mapping of the body in an
architectural space
"create the perfect silence, that just the rumors of our body live, hear the
blood slipping between the undulant softness of the veins, blood
heartbeat, neck artery pumping, pump the heart, the vibration of the ribs,
the gurgling of the intestines, air whistling between the hairs of the
noses"
(Saramago, 2007: 139).
Architecture as an inspiration for the semiotics of the body.
As a starting point, the impact on the retina of an architectural design,
urban or natural. The architectural definition of a space, lines, angles and
curves that remain alive in the time.
Stories of the past and the present, the moment: lives, people and events
that float in another dimension. A dimension invisible but present, which
you can feel... on the body, hence this.
The body in the architectural space. The
cartography of the movement will be defined by emotion and emotion
discovers and describes a path where the soul emerges and attaches to a
cartography that runs through the body space and space as a dimension of
nothingness.
A nothingness filled with meaning because it is inhabited by stories,
stories that impact on the soul, replenishing walking by the cartography of
the body, whose element of connection to reality is the public and the
space inhabited by people, in a real time.
This definition of the mapping of the body by an architectural space in the
public intervenes directly. Creating a relationship between the body, the
architectural space and the public. So that visual impact of architectural
space becomes the Communicator thread between the body and the
public, first from the semiotics of the body up to the verb.
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Cartografía del cuerpo en un espacio arquitectónico
Mapping of the body in an architectural space
Alicia Soto – Hojarasca
The public and weather, the waiting. Only the action of be
and look as time passes, as a Sunrise, an urban space or landscape.
And since improvisation exploration of something new happens quite
unpredictable and unrepeatable for the public and the body.
"What we dream dreams. Maybe dreams are memories that the soul has
of the body".
(José Saramago, Gospel according to Jesus Christ).
"Mapping of the body in architecture" is a scenic work based on a
unique and unrepeatable experience between the public and the artist
within an emblematic natural or urban architectural framework.
This experimental work is created from a dialogue between the body, the
architectural space and the public, accompanied by a sound, according to
each location and experience.
And in every experience, as confidence grows, they will be more scenic
elements necessary and keeping each architectural space, turning it into
an installation.
This project is that the artist addresses, after 20 years of experience is
based on the pillars of its choreographic creation processes:
Improvisation, the importance of space, its architecture, the
audience and the image.
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Cartografía del cuerpo en un espacio arquitectónico
Mapping of the body in an architectural space
Alicia Soto – Hojarasca
The image, draw a map with all the mapping through
the lens of a photographer:
In each mapping will be a photographic testimony, a work of connection
between the image and the body and the architectural space.
Inviting a photographer to testify and that reflects its objective, moments,
details, sighs and emotions of each one of the experiences for each
experience.
Building at the end a tour, a union between all the territories creating a
global map of all the cartographies of the body in architecture. Being
reflected in a catalog.
And creating, who knows, a show that needs of the passage of time.
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Cartografía del cuerpo en un espacio arquitectónico
Mapping of the body in an architectural space
Alicia Soto – Hojarasca
Map of the mappings:
The tour of the territoriesbegins in Valladolid, to
follow in Digne-les-Bains (France) and end in Lisbon, but
along the way will appear other territories where they
develop other cartographies of the body in a natural,
architectural or urban space.
Mapping of the body in an architectural space, territory Valladolid:
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An urban landscape architecture : "Study 2, Silence."
Chapel of the National Museum of Sculpture, at the
International Festival in of Theatre and Street Arts.
TAC 2014. May 24, 2014, passes at 12 hours and 19
hours.
Scenic development and staging in artistic residence:
Each mapping will mean the creation of a different, being
built in each space on-site staging, which will involve
performing a pre-work presentations in a work of artistic
residence.
Researching and creating, shaping, as in a picture each
element where:
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The Sonora composition.
Light and color, from where and to where.
Boost each set element that has space.
…And the body.
With the collaboration of the International Theatre Festival
and Street Arts Tac Valladolid.
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Cartografía del cuerpo en un espacio arquitectónico
Mapping of the body in an architectural space
Alicia Soto – Hojarasca
"Study 2: silence"
Premiere on 24 may 2014, in the cloister of the National Museum of
sculpture.
Passes at 12 and 19 hours.
"Look learn looking.
There is no way to build the look if you don't exercise it: watching,
observing and analyzing.
There is no way to separate the text from the image.
The text is a way of looking at and the images are forms of speech.
Writing leads to silence and look to blindness"
(Text of Santiago Olmo, subtraction of color, Bernardí Roig, instant
white, National Sculpture Museum exhibition)
As architectural space, the cloister of the Valladolid sculpture
National Museum.
As sound, the accompaniment of La Banda de Cornetas y Tambores
"Holy released" of Valladolid.
The white of the stone, the subtraction of color against the
polychromy.
The silence against the strong sound of drums that rumbles from
the stone and the wind that slips between the metallic wind.
Living sculpture as a human being if it were.
And an audience, hunting emotions, always watching.
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Cartografía del cuerpo en un espacio arquitectónico
Mapping of the body in an architectural space
Alicia Soto – Hojarasca
ARTISTIC CREDITS
Artistic direction
& coreography
Alicia Soto
Musicians
Dancers
Banda de Cornetas y Tambores “Sagrada Lanzada” Valladolid
Co-direction
and dramaturgy
Fotography
Video
Costumes
Dolores de Matos and Alicia Soto
Gerardo Sanz, Juan A.Berzal
Manuel Rodríguez Arnanz
cia. Alicia Soto
Graphic design
José Navarro Sánchez
Administration
Sofía García Fernández
Comunication
Production
Acknowledgements
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Alicia Soto
Carolina Saiz
International Festival of Teather and Street Arts, TAC
and Cia. Alicia Soto-Hojarasca
Banda de Cornetas y Tambores "Sagrada Lanzada"
Dolores de Matos and Museo Nacional de Escultura
Cartografía del cuerpo en un espacio arquitectónico
Mapping of the body in an architectural space
Alicia Soto – Hojarasca
A production by:
Alicia Soto – Hojarasca
www.hojarasca-danza.com
[email protected]
www.facebook.com/Alicia.Soto.Hojarasca
+34 619 400 184
Company subsidized by:
Collaborators
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Cartografía del cuerpo en un espacio arquitectónico
Mapping of the body in an architectural space
Alicia Soto – Hojarasca