Reflections

In a society obsessed with the cult of the body and physical beauty, we wonder what would happen if we looked carefully at a real reflection, instead of through a screen with filters and masks. What would we find in that true image? If our cellphone screens were the reflection of a deep pond, millions of Narcissuses would die daily. We freely reinterpret the history of mythology to seek an answer, and who knows, maybe find a way out.

“Reflections” is an audiovisual set where from the footage of the performance by Gabriela Beltramino, the duo Muscae Volitantes realize a live set of videos plus digital drawing and animations in real time. This set is in constant dialogue with the music played live by Berenice Llorens.

Where the Birds Come From

Live audiovisual performance created in collaboration with Toros for the Earth Day Art Model 2023, organized by Indiana University’s IUPUI Department of Music and Arts Technology.

The performance combined live visual work by Muscae Volitantes with Toros’ music and was presented both as a livestream and to a small in-person audience in Berlin.

Check Your Privileges

Check Your Privileges is a public projection about the contradictions behind everyday consumption in Europe and its consequences in Latin America. Coffee, lithium, quinoa, avocados, cocaine and other products and commodities become starting points for looking at the political, environmental and social realities behind what we consume.

The piece also addresses the way these contradictions coexist with everyday European life: the same cities that consume these products are also spaces of privilege, tourism and entertainment.

Based on texts by Eduardo Galeano and Atahualpa Yupanqui, the work was created as a public intervention for Speakers Corner, an initiative by VJ Open Lab in Berlin.

The projections were made in different streets of the city of Berlin in November 2021.

Postkarten aus der Quarantäne

Created during the first COVID-19 lockdown in Berlin, the project documents daily life observed from our apartment window. Using binoculars, we filmed our neighbors as their routines unfolded just across the street, close enough to see but impossible to reach.

The conditions of isolation placed us on the other side of the lens, observing people who had become our closest visual neighbors while remaining physically distant. The resulting work reflects on distance, intimacy and the strange experience of being close to others while completely isolated.

Urkupiña

Set made from footage of the 33rd celebration of the Virgin of Urkupiña (Córdoba, Argentina, 2018), emphasizing the devotion of the dancers rather than the figure of the saint. It focuses on two elements that are rarely addressed in documentation of this type of celebration: the shots and the tempo.

Through drawing we accentuate the characteristics and work with the aesthetics of the celebration, with its intense colors and details that are typical of the clothing of these Bolivian and Argentinean dance groups.

Pukllay

A work that questions the exercise of power in the processes of syncretism, paying homage to the Andean Carnival while using the walls of the European city of Perugia as its support. Perugia was once formally part of the Papal State.

¿Nosotrxs? ¿Racistas? (Us? Racist?)

“Us? Racist?” was created as a space to question how racism is reproduced through everyday practices, language and inherited ideas.

The work was developed in collaboration with universities, researchers and cultural organizations in Córdoba, using projection and live visual intervention as tools to make visible ideas and behaviors that often remain unnoticed because they have become familiar.

Organized by Centro de Investigaciones María Saleme de Burnichón and Secretaría de Extensión de la FFyH — Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Diplomatura en Políticas Culturales para el Desarrollo Local, and Secretaría de Extensión de la Facultad de Artes. Cocina de Culturas, Fundación Electroingeniería.

Astral

“Astral travel” set presented in the special edition of the hundredth session of the “Astral, música a ciegas” cycle, at Espacio 75, Centro Cultural Alta Córdoba.