BLACK NOISE

Choreographer, director, actor, dancer, performer and playwright Vicente Colomar has presented his work at festivals like Be Birmingham, the Camping Festival (Paris) and the Escena Contemporánea Festival (Madrid). His latest creation, Black Noise, was developed as part of the Research Studios programme at the Performance Art Research and Training Studios (P.A.R.T.S.) directed by Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker in Belgium. It’s a choreographic and musical investigation of the construction of objects and their connections, a work about form that makes use of chairs, tables, blankets and dancers. “Chairs and tables, due to their architectural lines and dimensions. And blankets as blurrers, silencers and eliminators of form. Like an echo of the objects”, explains Colomar.   Black Noise functions as an installation and a performance. It’s a hypnotic show where the performative is produced through lapses. "We experiment with time: we expand it in the installation and we compress it in the performance", he says. Both creations focus on the area of friction where the outer membrane surrounds the object, that final limit where it fades. A confusing and noisy place. At what point does the object cease to be such and start to be something else, to establish other relationships and build itself into other objects?

“All objects have the same form and the same size.They all have the same materiality. Hate is no less material than an apple. All objects are formed by objects. Between one object and another there’s always another object. All objects are the same object. All objects are nothingness. We are objects”. Vicente Colomar

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Photo (c) Tina Declerk


Credits:

Performers: Talia De Vrite, Ricardo Santana, Susanna Hood, Vicente Colomar. Sound and Music Consulting: Erika Vega, Kaja Fradzky Further development in Research Studios at P.A.R.T.S.): Tom Pauwels, Gabriel Schenker Technical Director: Luis Perdiguero Photo: Tina Declerk Idea and Choreography: Vicente Colomar Production: This project was developed as part of the Research Studios performance research project in collaboration with the MANANA, ICTUS Master’s Degree in Experimental Music at P.A.R.T.S., with the support of the 2016 Full Scholarship for Further Studies from the SGAE Foundation, the IBERESCENA programme and the Departures and Arrivals DNA programme (P.A.R.T.S.), in collaboration with Coreógrafos en Comunidad (Choreographers in Community), Conde Duque Cultural Centre, Madrid.
The installation and performance Black Noise is a production created during a residency at Naves Matadero.