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Life is a Lab / Live Cinema / Objects Theater Mix

  • AV Performance
  • Live Cinema (Narrative)
  • Experimental Electronics
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Life is a Lab / Live Cinema / Objects Theater Mix
Life is a Lab Cinema and Object Theater
Performance of 40’

In this performance, a hybrid between low-tech and digital, Katia Vonna Beltran talks about modern nomadism, new technologies, re-use and questions our way of living otherness in a plural world. In a form of contemporary fairground theatre, a Live Cinema process, she creates scenic spaces of intimacy in which she plays with everyday objects full of stories. She tells them to the public in an abstract, poetic, political and "Artivist" narration creating a possible space for the deployment of the imagination and emotions. Like an invitation to slow down and invent other possible worlds.



In a form of contemporary fairground theatre, I create scenic spaces of intimacy in which I play with everyday objects, full of stories. I tell them to the audience in an abstract and poetic narrative, creating a possible space for the imagination and emotions.

The recycling of all the materials used is at the heart of my creative process, which I want to keep as simple as possible. The object, chosen for its shape, its texture, its colour, becomes the material of a raw and direct cinematographic process.

The miniature theatre is transformed into a laboratory and allows, far from sophisticated tools, often perceived as inescapable, the production of images, by creative processes, close to DIY, using prosaic objects, skimmers, pearls, papers, glasses..., which surround us, and acquire by this new use, a poetic dimension.

Mixing a low-tech analogical process with a digital restitution, everything is filmed live with video surveillance cameras and projected in real time, to create a world mixing two complementary universes.

My narrative is political and "Artivist", using archives of experiences and resistances from all over the world, my own images and various objects. I talk about modern nomadism, new technologies, eco-feminism, street art, activism, re-use and DIY and I question the way we think about the world in a process of adaptation and emancipation. I thus give visibility to various capacities to think and act on the world.

Today's climate issues give a boost to the imagination and the possibility of acting through a more egalitarian expression. The stupefaction then gives way to extraordinary resources for thinking about other worlds.

"Not only does it disrupt the map of the given, the thinkable and the enunciable, but dissensus, as a conflictual reconfiguration of the world, institutes new relationships between these elements. (Jacques Rancière, quoted in Martin Jalbert, Dissensus at Work, Revue Spirale, 2008)

The power of agentivity, nestled at the heart of the creative process and of apparent simplicity, makes other possible worlds visible and gives rise to a shared emotional dimension that takes us back to childhood. To offer the spectator a sensitive and reflexive experience, of inventing existence, on the path of the journey and of the encounter.

"The logic of the affirmative spectator: it becomes a logic of emancipation (of another emancipation), according to which spectators constantly recompose their own spectacle from the one offered to them. This escapes the mechanical, the police, and the possibility of predictable effects. Everyone can become a spectator, develop a series of different forms of perception and take the floor." (Christian Ruby, Becoming a Spectator, 2017)

Sale Price: 1000€ incl. Tax



Duration (minutes)

40

What is needed

Technical File - Theater format

Space
Scenic space on stage 2 x 2 m

Material
All the elements necessary for the show are contained in a suitcase and a backpack
They will be brought by the artist at the time of the setting up

Set-up time
The set-up time for the entire stage installation is 1h00 including video/sound tests
Dismantling 00h40

Technical requirements
A table minimum 1.5 m x 80 cm
An electrical connection with a rack of plugs
A video projector
An HDMI connection cable
A sound output that can be done from the technician's console
A reception with a technician for video and sound tests

Light
A discreet light on the artist for the scenic setting

Travel – Accommodation - Catering
The cost of transportation is the responsibility of the programmer, and is added to the selling price of the show. It will be defined at the time of the signature of the contract
Plan to pick up the artist at his place of arrival, airport, train station
All the material provided by the artist will be contained in a suitcase of 75x50x27 cm of 23kg and a backpack of 60x35cm
Accommodation is to be provided on the evening of the performances
Meal expenses are also the responsibility of the programmer on the day of programming

No Food Restriction

What the artists brings

Nothing

  • AV Performance
  • Live Cinema (Narrative)
  • Experimental Electronics

Authors

Events

LPM 2019 Rome
LPM 2019 Rome
May 05 // 04 2019

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