FRACTURA

Fractura is a scenic and immersive audiovisual exploration that establishes symbiotic relationships between music, dance, visual space and light - a collaborative work by argentinian dancer and choreographer Miranda Codesal and visual artist and director Paula Monesterolo, swiss film maker Jonathan Jäggi and musician Simon Grab.

The piece is inspired by the destruction of ecosystems caused by the extractivist capitalist system, specifically focusing on the oil extraction process called Fracking. This method illegal in many countries worldwide is currently in use in Argentina. It has direct effects on biota and the population causing precarious living conditions immersed in these new anthropogenic landscapes.

 Fractura creates a dystopia, a space where a rupture occurs in the natural balance, in temporal frameworks, a system failure opening an energetic channel to a liminal space where life becomes toxic. A dense and noisy atmosphere gives life to a creature: a cyborg born from those depths. The creature explores the new space – presented by the visuals of landscapes and fragmented images of a city in continuous transformation – either framed by the screen or projecting itself within it. The lighting with sharp beams of white and red light invades a dark atmosphere and extends the body of the visuals.

Fractura aims to explore new ways of understanding the relationships between the organic and the inorganic, creating a mutant body that demands new modes of perceiving, feeling, interacting, desiring and loving to adapt to these changing times. Fractura is a transdisciplinary experience that invites reflection on a possible common destiny: collapse as a catalyst to a new order and a new way of navigating the present.

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