Last works
· What shines through two different things ·
What shines through two different things is a phonographic performance that, as a kind of choreographed city tour and with a participative role of the audience, explores the relation of the city and its citizens.
Through the combination of techniques of field recording and film sound design with expanded choreography and performative elements in the public space, this project explores the generation of narratives by exchanging the sounds of two or more cities. It works as a sound-dislocation protocol, where both cities give room for one another within each other’s public space.
This work emerges as a creative dialogue between Brussels-based artist Diego Echegoyen (AR) and Buenos Aires-based composer Ezequiel Menalled (AR/NL).
*The Brussels episode 1 was shown in November 2021 within the PROXIMAMENTE Festival at KVS, in Brussels
Duration: 60 minutes.
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· To be someone implies to be somewhere ·
In a large installation where the visitors are first invited to walk around, before sitting in a circle at its edges, Echegoyen has set up monitors featuring documentary videos of repressed demonstrations, but also of an action he previously did, that consists in breaking a table with a hammer. In space lie on the ground the results of the action: destroyed objects. Sitting wisely nearby on a chair in front of a table, he reads a text of his own story, but in an even tone, emotionally detached, so that the text can take its full place, detached from its author.
A pendulum, a thread with a stone hanging from the end of it, that he throws sometimes, in order to implement a particular rhythm to his performance, remembering the time is passing but also the absurd division of time, reinforcing an approach to time that is more poetic than linear.
What is private? What is public? How territories inhabit our body? What are the links between our interior and exterior cartographies? These are central questions Diego Echegoyen deal with. He stages an in-betweenspace, that intertwines his own trajectory as a migrant and an artist with public problem of migration and violence, physical and institutionalised violence, the fair and the unfair one.
· Collapse ·
work & research in progress
Collapse is a research-based project that leads towards a choreographic performance.
In a world that is falling apart, we witness how the global economy is not willing to change its direction pushing everyone and everything to the edge.
The exhaustion of the Earth and the current phase of Capitalism in western democracies are only two examples of this.
This work explores what lays down the dynamic apogee/suspension/collapse as a choreographic (and political) potentiality and raise a question upon the agency that we have to change the logic that lead us to the abyss.
If this collapse is not the end but the beginning of "new cycle", what would it be after it...?
Can we address our sight beyond the idea of the collapse as the end?
· All roads lead to Molenbeek ·
This installation is comprised of two interlocking parts. A promenade along the exhibition space is made by tiny roads and green banners giving orders, sharing questions and concerns. The promenade ends (or begins) on a non-scale model of la Place Communale de Molenbeek. This model is a game board where visitors are invited to play and negotiate public space together with the artist. The game will repeat itself with different participants throughout the evening, influencing the dispositif of the subsequent one and creating an alternate history of public engagement with this particular square. As an ad hoc group of stakeholders we will explore the differences between making agreements within the game and making them in the public realm.
Shown in Performatik19 at Kanal Pompidou
For four (4) active participans and a small audience. Duration: 25 min (three times a day)
· Abogados - Manteros ·
This street performance, carried out during the ESCENA POLITICA transversal congress, aims to highlight the elements at stake in the problem of occupying public space and the difficulties of access to Justice administration for the most vulnerable sectors of society.
The action consists of taking the public space with a group of twenty lawyers who worked in Mantero-mode setting up their offices on top of blankets on the sidewalks.
Lawyers Manteros is the first part of a series of street performances that will make up a reflection on the thousand faces of capitalism in its current stage and the forms it takes by virtue of the political, social, economic and legal characteristics that exist in each region.
· What do you want from me? ·
This is a lecture-performance created and performed by Diego Echegoyen in 2016.
What do you want from me? overlaps the length of the Neoliberal policies in Argentina from the '90s onwards and the recurrent plot of Armando Bo and Isabel "Coca" Sarli's films between late '50s and late '70s.
Looking through both the piece frames the relationship between the film industry and how the female and male roles are written in our subjectivity and its link to neo-liberalism that was coming ahead.
Shown in Centro Cultural Matienzo, Buenos Aires.
Piece commissioned by cycle Drama is action
Duration 40 minutes.
· A wild land ·
Rio de Janeiro, The Hague, Dover, the beginning of the '80s: a young woman, the intimacy of the words, the pain and the continuous reinvention of a Self, flashing and glum at the same time.
Inspired by texts of the Brazilian poet Ana Cristina Cesar, A Wild Land is an experimental theatre piece, an assemblage between sound installation, performance, and fiction. Postcards built by means of useless objects, obsolete technology and the distant memory of happiness. An attempt to remain floating at the precise moment of jumping in order to hear the sound of things collapse. A territory in which our inner voice speak to us through strange sounds.
Produced by: El Cuarto
Coproduction: 11 FIBA, Bienal Arte Joven
Supported by: C.C.25 de Mayo, C.C. Recoleta, CheLA, Fábrica Perú, Universidad de Congreso, Fonds Podium Kunsten Netherlands.
