“Just pause; turn off the radio, unplug the TV, don’t buy anything, don’t want to buy anything. It is enough to stop participating, stop knowing; temporarily suspend any mental activity. It is enough, literally, to remain motionless for a few seconds ”Houllebecq

This project was the result of the 2020 pandemic situation; the fact that we have all been forced to “shut ourselves up” in our homes, led us to think about the creative possibility of small spaces, of the little life that occurs everywhere, and that we often stop seeing.

We are immersed in big movements all the time, in the big city, in a huge and accelerated whole, which does not stop; and now life forces us to return home, to the smallness; waiting for the spectacle of the world,  and most of all, our own internal spectacle.

 Life is everywhere, it’s just a matter of how we look at it. In this proposal that we present, the intention was to get inside ourselves and do it through those small spaces that we inhabit. In this occasion, the kitchen of our home.  Starting from the nature of each individual and the  provocation of limiting our daily lives to inhabiting only one space.

That´s how we created this interdisciplinary piece.

Credits:

Direction and Performer: Valentina Martínez Gallardo

Co-direction and performer: Edson Martínez

Performer: Paulina Arriaga Cabrera

Textual Interventions: Misael Garrido

Direction and creations of audiovisual material: Sofía Landgrave

Photography: Argenis Salinas.

*Supported Project by the porgram of independent staging spaces in resilience by INBAL and Centro Cultural Helénico