los Zeros (the Zero), 2020
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collaboration Juan Pablo Cámara
YUNFUN RC Drone for Kids, plastic wall sheathing, Primark men’s sweaters, plaid uniform skirts, industrial chain link, four blood capsules
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the Zero is a hypocenter: a zero-ground staging a never-before-seen metamorphosis. The rules of interaction are described by a computationally-encoded TreeMap. The TreeMap is a node-matrix of relationality where nodes are defined by states of embodiment both performers enter with telepathic, ultra-connected immediacy. Rehearsed through eye-to-eye-contact (and sometimes “hand-to-hand combat”), the Zero’s matrix permits accelerated transitions, unforeseen evolutions, and an erosion of identification.
los Zeros es un hipocentro: una zona de cero que escenifica una metamorfosis nunca vista. Las reglas de la interacción se describen mediante un TreeMap (árbol-mapa) codificado computacionalmente. El árbol-mapa es una matriz de nodos relacionales en la que los nodos están definidos por estados de (re)encarnación en los que ambos intérpretes entran con una inmediatez telepática y ultra-conectada. Ensayada mediante el contacto visual (y a veces el "combate cuerpo a cuerpo"), la matriz de Zero permite transiciones aceleradas, evoluciones imprevistas y la erosión de la identificación.
the Zero is Zander Porter and Juan Pablo Cámara’s memory algorithm. An emptied nest, it is a choreography welcoming a hoard of new figures, fictions, species, and meshes always sitting at the edges of representation – haunting and role-playing masculinity (through “masculinized” horrors and entities).
los Zeros es el algoritmo de memoria de Zander Porter y Juan Pablo Cámara. Un nido vacío, es una coreografía que implosiona creando una lluvia de nuevas figuras, ficciones y especies que siempre se encuentran en los bordes de la representación, acechando y representando la masculinidad (a través de horrores y entidades "masculinizadas")
the Zero premiered for Vorspiel / transmediale & CTM 2020. (Documentation images © Refik Sancar & Kristi Giambattista [SomoS].) the Zero was invited to be developed further in residency at Trauma Bar und Kino and the project’s TreeMap (below), with text accompanying, was published in This Container by *rile. The performance re-emerged as los Zeros at Pulpería Mutuálica in 2023.
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