Elena Carvajal and Rafael Frazão IN RESiDENCE at the School L’Alzina

The initial idea is to work on the temporality of things. Our starting point for research will be time. Together, we will try out different ways of questioning and experimenting with how time is constructed for us, and the ways in which we create our awareness, in a specific context, i.e. in this group, in this place, and within this framework of cosmic history. Our view is that we are currently living in an accelerating era, which we experience in the way we move, observe, consume, rest, look at screens, etc., and even in the way we interact with each other. Many gestures and customs are being lost in this fast-paced period. 
We would like to suggest practices that come from places beyond the mind and rational thought, to situate them in the body and in ways of doing. These practices should link the body and the imagination, somatics and speculation, mediated by the production of images and choreography. We would like to explore them through cinematographic exercises without cameras, movement and games that move between slow rhythms and other possible rhythms, which we can discover together.
Our encounter, between the performing arts (studies of presence) and cinema (studies of ways of seeing), comes together around a desire to undo the division between ways of being and ways of looking, between ways of making the body and ways of being traversed by images, not just technical images, but also images as entities of the image.

We will draw on codes and tools of the contemporary imagination, from a critical appropriation of technologies and the economy of attention, such as telephones, image surplus, mem(etics), promptology (the way we develop relationships with AI), intertwined with the body of the individual and the work of the presence of devices of presence and the individual.