I don’t want video calls

Videoperformance that uses a video calling application as a support, widely used during 2020, which allows group videoconferences over the Internet and record them. Direct shot from laptop camera. Color filming, with post-production and editing. To compose the audio, I mix sounds that come from my mouse and keyboard.

In these months of quarantine, the screens became skin. Virtual communication platforms summon us, find us and the invitations to attend live videos, talks, courses and online love affairs are multiplying. Quickly, life was minimized to the screen and through it, ghost images enter and leave my house. However, the contact is not felt, the more video calls, the more distance, the emptier, the more solitude behind the monitor. I don’t want video calls, I want future encounters where bodies rub against each other without fear of contagion.

DURATION:

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PLACE AND DATE

• University of Concepción | International Video-Performance Show. Organized by Dissident Bodies, Encuentro de Acción en Vivo y Diferido, BDG, La Sonora Performancera, Live Hive, TAC | Chile. January 19-20, 2021
• Aesthetics and politics of infected bodies, show of video performance and video art 4´33 “| Museum of Contemporary Art “Nuria Rengifo”, Ecuador and Mundana Antwerpen, Bélgica. From December 20, 2020 to January 31, 2021
• Festival of the Moving Image | International Video-Performance Show. Organized by Dissident Bodies,Encuentro de Acción en Vivo y Diferido, BDG, La Sonora Performancera, Live Hive, TAC | Sensistan Museum, Goa, India, December 12, 2020
• International Festival of Extra Performance | International Video-Performance Show. Organized by Dissident Bodies, Encuentro de Acción en Vivo y Diferido, BDG, La Sonora Performancera, Live Hive, TAC | Mexico, November 21, 2020
• Corpórea Festival | International Video-Performance Show. Organized by Dissident Bodies, Encuentro de Acción en Vivo y Diferido, BDG, La Sonora Performancera, Live Hive, TAC | Mexico, October 10, 2020
• Experimental Biosphere | International Video-Performance Show. Organized by Dissident Bodies, Encuentro de Acción en Vivo y Diferido, BDG, La Sonora Performancera, Live Hive, TAC | Mexico, October 3, 2020
• Chicago No Nation – Art Gallery and Tangential Unspace Lab | International Video-Performance Show. Organized by Dissident Bodies,Encuentro de Acción en Vivo y Diferido, BDG, La Sonora Performancera, Live Hive, TAC | Chicago, from September 29 to October 3, 2020
• Philadelphia Fringe Festival | International Video-Performance Show. Organized by Dissident Bodies, Encuentro de Acción en Vivo y Diferido, BDG, La Sonora Performancera, Live Hive, TAC | Philadelphia, from September 10 to October 4, 2020
• Bogota Experimental Film Festival | International Video-Performance Show. Organized by Dissident Bodies, Encuentro de Acción en Vivo y Diferido, BDG, La Sonora Performancera, Live Hive, TAC, Tracing Acity | Colombia, from August 19 to 31, 2020
• Confinement | Video performance cycle. Organized by PerfoREDmx, Red Mexicana de Performance, LPG, ENAPE, Festival Extra, Festival Corpórea, HORAS perdida, BBAX, La Neomudejar, CIDV, CCECR, RACA, Rizomas, Performance REIHE, PRNOE, El Rlie Comunidad De Saberes, Urdimbres, México, Jliy 15 to August 23, 2020