Presentation

The gaze from the composition and the gaze of the spectator.

Architectures of the ephemeral

To build or to watch a choreographic work is a continuous attempt to create spaces in time and within the sheared moment. And it is in this space in-between the gaze of the artist and that of the audience where other perspectives open up to the eye, the thought and the experience. An in-between space where representation becomes an active relationship between presence, thought and action. A space that both artist and spectator can alter, transform, pervert. Using the gaze to question the established physical and relational architectures, using their freedom to propose other spaces.

Architectures of the gaze is an invitation to reflect about some of the different approaches, live-artists are currently busy with, concerning the use of perspective and space within a temporal frame. Uses that make of the dialogue with the gaze of the spectator an essential matter of the composition. Parallel to this and consequently, is a reflection on spectatorship understood as an active and mobile space, where the gaze assumes a collaborative relationship as editor and composer, opening possibilities to other affects, other politics, other relational architectures where not everything that is there remains within the visible.

This is the second issue of the series Cuerpo de letra. Danza y pensamiento, which began with the translation of Andre Lepecki's Exhausting dance (2009). The collection is a joint initiative by Mercat de les Flors (Barcelona), Centro Coreográfico Galego (A Coruña) and University of Alcalá (Madrid)