Alphabet
Language exists from the beginning, in its raw, primitive being, in the simple, material form of a writing, of a stigma on things, of a mark spread over the world that forms part of its most indelible figures.
Words and Things, M. Foucault
Words and Things, M. Foucault
Alphabet proposes a space of play between bodies and words that aims to explore the drives and accidents of language. If our relation to the world traverses language, Alphabet calls language as a space of estrangement, and develops scenic writing as a paradoxical and queer sign that transports us to the space of misunderstanding between things and words, mobilizing the political possibilities of poetic invention as a disorder of language.
What operations does language perform on the world? How do bodies act on language? What orders of thought and hierarchies does it mobilise? What happens when we disrupt the metaphors and analogies that organise thought? How do we make bodies define words, make words become space, object or subject of action? What happens when we disrupt subject-object, matter-meaning, difference-similarity relationships and all the other oppositions that organise the experience of language?
ARTISTIC INFORMATION_
Direction and dramaturgy: Esther Blázquez & David Pérez.
Interpretation: Esther Blázquez & David Pérez.
Supporting: Bea Fernández & Mónica Muntaner.
Graphics: David Pérez
Photography: Laura Barone.
Video: Laura Costa.
WITH THE SUPPORT OF_
La Poderosa: espai per la dansa i els seus contaminants and Convez Zero.