Program: Dive | LPM Live Performers Meeting

LPM Live Performers Meeting 2008 Mexico
SEPTEMBER 4th 6th 2008 Xalapa, Mexico
Audio Visual Performing Artists Meeting
September, 4th 2008, 3:00 pm | September, 8th 2008, 12:00 am
September 4 - 6, 2008
MUTYE - Museo del Transporte y Exposiciones, Xalapa Mexico, Escuela Gestalt de Diseño, Xalapa Mexico, Xalapa, Mexico
Dive MAIN IMAGE

Dive

Movie

Duration: 3 min.

Friday, 05 September 2008 | 11:00 > 00:00 | AULA 105 - 106

A mix between children’s ghost or discovery trains and Alice in Wonderland’s rabbit hole, Dive invites the viewer to plunge. I use my body to wallpaper a digitally-generated tunnel as I move slowly in front of the camera, smile, and watch you; simultaneously, me too, I look at myself. In Dive, I subject my body to constant transformations and deformations evoking some type of monstrosity at first. But as my body keeps endlessly twirling through the tunnel, the idea of monstrosity becomes irrelevant, and the body-tunnel turns into a medium to reach something beyond it. The sound track–Ay Mari Cruz a classic Spanish song about a beautiful woman–confers a vital rhythm to the twirling tunnel as it also emphasizes the ideas of monstrosity evoking adequacy of beauty according to gender.

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