Articulated as an ongoing study group as much as a performance piece. Participants select a video from the web and designate it to another member of the group to memorize and present it next to the original. During the performance the viewer selects the video that they like to watch and the body corresponding to the video, performs the download. The public can request as many times as they want each download, throughout the performance the bodies begin to sweat, to get tired, to get out of phase by the seconds of their video, evidencing great differences between body and image, body and machine, natural times and editing processes. Each session reveals a lot about our way of consuming and assimilating information. 

A project that has generated a pedagogical database thanks to the methods/tricks that each performer (from any backgrounds) develops in their particular process of replicating their video. Notes and photography is what ́s left of these presentations that are deliberately not recorded on video or uploaded online.

'Descargas_3 / Downloads_3'

The counter position of speeches, exploring the complex relationship between body and spoken language.

Members:
Carmen Ixchel Maya
Héctor Jiménez
Claudia Cisneros
Silverio Orduña

Performance
Sala de Danza UNAM, CDMX, 2018
International Festival Encender un fósforo

'Descargas_2 / Downloads_2'

The deconstruction of the audio-visual narrative and imported aesthetic stereotypes from European and American cinema, pointing the editing and framing processes through the present body. Presented at a forum that formerly functioned as a cinema in GDL.

"The atmosphere was very similar to that of a cinema except that the audience was shouting and laughing, euphoric and entertained. We became entertainment, loved or hated characters but above all known to the majority, they kept asking for the same downloads over and over again, it was a much more intense session."

Members:
Agustín Guerrero
Alan Sierra
Alejandra Ibáñez
Anahí Meléndez
César Castillo
Claudia Cisneros
Héctor Renteria
Melissa Alfaro
Ramiro Ávila
Samantha Cendejas

Performance
LARVA Laboratorio de Arte Variedades, Guadalajara MX, 2017
Commissioned by City Museum. Guadalajara

Photographs by Jaqueline Cendejas

'Descargas_1 / Downloads_1'

Random videos from YouTube, without any criteria or categorization beyond the difficulties of each video.
Presented in an independent art space in CDMX.

"The place was casual and small which made our performances feel even weirder. The scenery and costumes were resolved by each participant, in search of that fine line between original and copy, actor and double, scenery and mock-up. We focused on basic key elements for the functioning of the scene and these worked as an anchor but also as a subtle joke during the presentation."

Members:
N. Samara Guzmán
Gabriela Galván
Claudia Cisneros
Emilio Bastré

Performance
CDMX, 2015