Articulated as an ongoing study group as much as a performance piece. Participants select a video from the web and designate it to another member of the group to memorize and present it next to the original. During the performance the viewer selects the video that they like to watch and the body corresponding to the video, performs the download. The public can request as many times as they want each download, throughout the performance the bodies begin to sweat, to get tired, to get out of phase by the seconds of their video, evidencing great differences between body and image, body and machine, natural times and editing processes. Each session reveals a lot about our way of consuming and assimilating information. 

A project that has generated a pedagogical database thanks to the methods/tricks that each performer (from any backgrounds) develops in their particular process of replicating their video. Notes and photography is what ́s left of these presentations that are deliberately not recorded on video or uploaded online.

Photograpy courtesy of Sandra Sánchez

'Descargas_3 / Downloads_3'

The counter position of speeches, exploring the complex relationship between body and spoken language.

Members:
Carmen Ixchel Maya
Héctor Jiménez
Claudia Cisneros
Silverio Orduña

Performance
Sala de Danza UNAM, CDMX, 2018
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