On every production process, artists tend to gather huge amounts of materials, either in the form of texts, images or sounds. Each one of us keeps folders overfilled with files stored in our hard drives; files that will most likely never be opened again. In this series of pieces, I try to set those archives in movement, to extract them from our digital storage supports and from the Internet and make them present. I will browse through those materials whilst producing performative micro-essays. The body will become the agent that links the digital volatility to the frailty of memory.
The digital archive that I have been working on so far interlaces materials that reflect on the historical connections between choreography and industrial work. From the influence of Rudolf von Laban in the development of Fordism to the somatization of the automobile industry through techno music in Detroit.
This performance is part of a program that opens a reflection on the notion of transmission and critical thinking about practices and knowledges in performing arts today. A four-day program activated in different spaces of the Mercat dels Flors.
Néstor García Díaz: Artist and independent curator. I studied Theatre at Institut del Teatre (Barcelona) and Choreography at P.A.R.T.S. (Brussels). Since 2012 my production takes on a heavier aspect of visual arts, as a consequence of my continuous collaborations with Tino Sehgal and Dora García.
I articulate my practice around the concept of social choreography. I mostly focus on how ideology and material culture influence our everyday choreographies, thus acting as scores for the organization of the modern society. Furthermore, I research on formats that question the exhibiting event as a material entity, and consider bodies and oral history as possible supports for the exhibition and conservation of artworks.
I currently combine my artistic production with the co-direction of the independent art space Pols (Valencia).
