THE PERFECT
ALIBI
2010·2011
Performance
The Perfect Alibi is framed between the image and the absence of the image, creating presence through absence. To be able to appear, I disappear. And to be able to disappear, I write. When I write, I split myself, and, while doing so, the spectator stays in the middle: between my thinking and the writing-image. The Perfect Alibi is a novel; a performance through the writing; an action film; the trip of one person when she is alone, where time, space and perception unfold until not knowing who, when or where you are.
In this performance the body disappears. Nobody is on stage. The spectator watches a film. The film is a succession of thoughts and stories that appear on the screen of my computer. The performance happens in-between the place where the lonely writer is and the mind of the spectator, with the projection of the screen of her computer as a medium. It could be a cinema situation, but it is not.
“The power of performativity is revealed through the reading, I mean, the power of giving a consciousness to everyday tools as Word processors. While reading, an immediate and almost unconscious process of identification takes place and we start thinking within the structure of these Word processors: layers that overlap, levels of reflection that decompose subjectivity, levels of consciousness on which we travel without continuity, typographies that are attitudes, font sizes that give tone, wallpapers that create spaces, effects that become events… (Inevitably the question emerges “Does Word repeat the structure of the human thinking? Or rather, have we ended up thinking with the structure of Word?”)”
Jaime Conde Salazar
CREDITS
Duration:1h15min
A piece by Maria Jerez
Original title: La Coartada Perfecta
Technical assistance: Samuel Anarte and Tim Bosselaar
Produced by Maria Jerez
Co-produced by Noorderzon/Grand Theatre (Groningen) and Künstlerhaus Mousonturm (Frankfurt) with the support of Iberescena, sommer.bar 2010 (a project of Tanz im August Berlin), BUDA Kunstencentrum (Kortrijk) and espacios cómodos’12 - La Porta (Barcelona)
TEXTS & PRESS
En Medio written by Jaime Conde-Salazar
In the middle by Jaime Conde Salazar - continuumlivearts
CALENDAR
2014
19/09 Ganz Novi Festival, Zagreb, Croatia
2013
13/11 Spielart, Munich, Germany
22/03 Buda Kunstencentrum, Kortrijk, Beligium
01-03/02 Mousonturm, Frankfurt, Germany
2012
10 & 11/05. La Casa Encendida, Madrid, Spain
20&21/04 Sweet #4, Espacio Cómodo La Porta, Barcelona, Spain
2011
19/12 Living Room Festival Madrid/Berlin/Zagreb/ Brussels
25-27/08 Noorderzon Festival, Grand Theatre, Groningen, Holland