Espacio Vertical.Creation Residence. Jorge Martínez Art Laboratory

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The residence for the creation of vertical space by the Colombian artist Eduardo Oramas is an activity that opens within the framework of the activities of the 5th edition of the Audiovisual Movement Festival (2019), this platform brings together dance students and emerging artists from various areas with interest in the contemporary scene and experimentation between different languages (body, space, plastic, multimedia, sound, among others ...) to be part of this creative process.

 

Vertical Space is a project that starts from a spatial question about the relationships between the body and the city. We believe that space is not something absolute or that it exists outside of us. Space is constantly built through the relationships established between it and the bodies that inhabit it. To inhabit a space is to relate to it.

We are particularly interested in the space of the city. The urban layout is a planned and designed organization that responds to different values, hierarchies and orders inherent in urban life. Living in the city implies experiencing a particular way of carrying the body. The city space is built and builds ways and customs that are noticeable in the body. These bodies constantly reproduce and resignify the spaces of the city they inhabit. The space responds to the organic logics of the bodies and these in turn to the planned and designed logics of the city, so that space and body transform each other. The wall is one of the main material and spatial expressions of urban design. It is a limit that differentiates two spaces. A hybrid space made up of two faces, a space that embodies a double condition: the inside and the outside, the private and the public, the allowed and the restricted, the visible and the invisible, etc. The wall, the wall, is a (vertical) space that divides and excludes, and in turn protects and gathers.

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