MARIANA CASTILLO DEBALL (EDITION I)
Today: November 20 (2005)
Mariana Castillo Deball presented in Leiden a piece, which plays with the idea of how time works and how we establish ourselves in the present. "The present", she says, "is a mixture of different temporalities: events, objects and spaces from multiple times co-exist in what we call actuality."
What is the present? How do we pass from one thing to another? How does this passage become what it is? How do all these temporalities collide in one single moment and constitute an individual?
In her performance 'Today: November 20' Deball will work with a single actor and a series of props to build a character who doesn't experience time in a linear or horizontal way, as we do, but vertically. The history of this character is built in events, which happened on the same date, but in different years. The actor becomes an archive of events which have an arbitrary point in common. Each time the performance takes place, this time for example on the 20th of November, the very shape of the character will be radically transformed by this one day history.
Mariana Castillo Deball presented in Leiden a piece, which plays with the idea of how time works and how we establish ourselves in the present. "The present", she says, "is a mixture of different temporalities: events, objects and spaces from multiple times co-exist in what we call actuality."
What is the present? How do we pass from one thing to another? How does this passage become what it is? How do all these temporalities collide in one single moment and constitute an individual?
In her performance 'Today: November 20' Deball will work with a single actor and a series of props to build a character who doesn't experience time in a linear or horizontal way, as we do, but vertically. The history of this character is built in events, which happened on the same date, but in different years. The actor becomes an archive of events which have an arbitrary point in common. Each time the performance takes place, this time for example on the 20th of November, the very shape of the character will be radically transformed by this one day history.
'Today: November 20', performance, Mariana Castillo Deball, 2005
Blackboxing (2005, Utrecht)
Mariana Castillo Deball is fascinated by the mechanisms we use to organise te lives. She investigates our mania for controlling unpreictable existence through systems of archiving, ordering and distribution. But more than that, she is fascinated by the margins of such structures where leakages inevitably occur. She sees these leakages as positive because they disrupt certain ordering systems, and foreground what lies behind.
During If I Can't Dance..., Mariana Castillo Deball investigated what she thought of as the rather impenetrable world of technology - where you know how to work things, but you don't know precicely how they work. in her project called 'Blackboxing' she will suggest a process that "investigates the way scientific and techical work is made invisible by its own succes".
Mariana Castillo Deball is fascinated by the mechanisms we use to organise te lives. She investigates our mania for controlling unpreictable existence through systems of archiving, ordering and distribution. But more than that, she is fascinated by the margins of such structures where leakages inevitably occur. She sees these leakages as positive because they disrupt certain ordering systems, and foreground what lies behind.
During If I Can't Dance..., Mariana Castillo Deball investigated what she thought of as the rather impenetrable world of technology - where you know how to work things, but you don't know precicely how they work. in her project called 'Blackboxing' she will suggest a process that "investigates the way scientific and techical work is made invisible by its own succes".
'Blackboxing', performance, Mariana Castillo Deball, 2005
