ASUNTOS HUMANOS

DETAILS

The story is built from the perception of social differences and how these were accentuated within the global experience of “confinement”, highlighting extreme situations that affected coexistence, individual freedoms and the living conditions of one and the other depending on their social position, origin and legal situation. The same actress embodies two characters who live different social realities. One lives within economic security, job stability, access to benefits and the possibility of teleworking to protect themselves during the state of alarm. The other is in a precarious situation, she gets a daily living, is undocumented and is forced to accept unfair treatment when working. She does not have the option of choosing to shelter at home during confinement and therefore she exposes herself having in turn the opportunity to live experiences that the other since confinement cannot live. The dichotomy between security and freedom is expressed, the influence of fear and segestion when making decisions, the relationship with risk, with the fight. Despite the difference in condition between the two, they face the same problem: lack of time before and loneliness after. One because she fills herself with activities to fill the emptiness and boredom and the other because she has to run after work without much thought. Life leads them to interact in a particular way, where one “fearful from her bubble” needs the other, who is her contact with the outside world. And although they may have things in common and even things to share, fear and the situation create a barrier that limits the relationship to a utilitarian level, leaving out the human, which must find unexpected ways of expressing itself. These two women are led by two forces that represent the subconscious, the animal side, the repressed desire, the will, the wait to be able to take action, or to find the moment to give free rein to the desires

Title
Asuntos Humanos

Company
Colectivo Cistifellea

Duration
50 min

Direction and Projection
Elena Tilli

Script and Original Music
Nicolas Cristancho

Choreography
Susana Isunza

Interpreters
Amanda Araújo, Ananda Payan, Gabriel Napoleone

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AGRESIÓN Y DIGNIDAD

DETAILS

The first phase of this project, originally intended for the scene, was carried out in the context of the pandemic.

After Its development was forced into the digital field the second field of research was opened: the construction of a creative space in real-time through remote interactions between a body that moves in Mexico, a media director that receives, modifies, and interacts with the image in Europe, and a musician that creates a sound space from another geographical point to be broadcasted to throughout the streaming platforms.

Streaming and the screen constituted a third question to be investigated.
How to re-phrase the conversation when screens are a territory conquered by forms and cultural references deeply rooted in our views?

The power of the image on the screen has served to impose cultural and social references, generating the invisibility and exclusion of those who are not reflected in them. How to turn this reality around, break paradigms and propose inclusive and plural references?

This process has opened wide horizons of questions and areas that need to be explored and that lead us to the current research proposal.

Where do we have to be, to have a voice? Where do we have to go? Who do we have to talk to? Who is going to listen?

Today, the technological resources of audio, video, and telecommunications, in addition to being technical tools, can be dramatic agents that amplify the sensory power of the scenic language, being extensions of the body, representing characters, generating circumstances, environments, forms, contexts, and textures.

Agresion y Dignidad is a work that is been developed during the pandemic, from the urgency of finding a way out to the lockdown and being able to keep the creative process alive, in the manner of live performance. It is with this desire that the Cistifellea Collective, made of media designer and director Elena Tilli, and composer Nicolas Christancho, joined the work of Cesar Rene’ Perez in Mexico to develop together a creative process for the scene based on the remote connection, that will become the performance Agresion y Dignidad, presented to the public in real-time in November 2021 for the first time through the platforms Twitch and Facebook.
Together we began using a multimedia system that allowed connecting the actors through their phones with a system capable to process the videos in real-time and allow exploring ways to create stories through image composition while the actors interact throughout the devices available. Real-time sound is also integrated into the piece. The technology used allowed to implement its presence in the dramaturgy of the performance from a point of view new to the process.
Agression Y Dignidad is an artistic project made of short sketches developed around the phenomenon of class discrimination and its moral, social, cultural and emotional implications. Discrimination and inequality represent the oppressive systems that put the integrity and life of a large number of people at risk by hindering access to health, well-paid work, justice, respect, and well-being in general. It is sustained and powered by a framework of historically traced ideas that assign higher values to some and lower values to others, making them less “deserving” of a life of peace and well-being. Discrimination fuels the pain of many.

This project is developed by César René Pérez, director of the company LCN Escena (Mexico) and the Cistifellea Collective based in Dortmund, Germany (Elena Tilli and Nicolás Cristancho) in which several technological tools are used to carry out a real-time transmission where visual, performance and sound elements merge.
Like any cultural construct, discrimination is weakened through criticism and questioning of its pillars. At the same time, digitality has allowed geographically separated people to meet and exchange ideas. The conversation takes place at its origins.

Concept and direction: César René Pérez
Creative accompaniment: Tania Campos Thomas
Multimedia designer: Elena Tilli
Sound: Nico Yurgaki
Assistance: Mildred Blanco
Programming consultancy: Raúl Mendoza
TCRV Workshop (Theater of Virtual Remote Creation): Landscape Performing Arts

Advisors: Marcela Sánchez Mota, Lydia Margules, Octavio Zeivy
We are grateful for the support of Foco alAire Producciones, Línea de Sombra Theater and Cistifellea Collective to carry out this process.
“We are grateful to the System of Supports for Creation and Cultural Projects (Fonca) for the encouragement provided to carry out this program.”

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