Participatory installation
I wear a flowery dress and painted lips. I put the computer on a platform and connect two pairs of headphones. I put one pair on and leave another available for the public. I stick a sign on my computer that says: Would you like to listen? Would you like to listen? I look through the playlist and choose the romantic songs I want to dance to. I see that you look at me from afar, it makes you dizzy to get close but we dance from a distance. You do dare to come up to me, you make a sign for me to take off my headphones but I don’t take them off, I grab the other pair and offer them to you. You smile and put them on. I dedicate the love song we are listening to to you, I dedicate it to you and also to her, to him and her and them and them, to them…
Codificada is a participatory installation in which a performer meticulously dances to what she hears in her headphones. She physically translates the lyrics of very famous boleros. She undertakes the difficult task of transferring the messages of certain love songs to the body. Listening to “Cosa más bella que tú” is not the same as seeing someone as beautiful as you. She moves compulsively, without stopping. She is like a hyperkinetic living statue that seduces the public. With irony she moves, shakes, decodes, recodes, disassembles, diverts, amplifies, distorts the meanings of each song. Codificada invites the spectators to an interactive and simultaneous experience without a fourth wall: those who dare to come closer and put on the headphones become listeners and partners of the performer; Those who observe from outside perceive the scene from other perspectives and make their own films.
Performer – creator: Malena Albarracín.
Creation assistance: Estefanía Otaño.
Wardrobe assistance: Camila Orsi.
Duration: 3 hours.
Playlist:
– Pero me acuerdo de ti, Christina Aguilera.
– Me muero por conocerte, Alex Ubago.
– Dejaría todo, Chayanne.
– Corre, Jessy Joy.
– Experiencia Relogiosa, Enrique Iglesias.
– Nunca te olvidaré, Enrique Iglesias.
– La Cosa más bella, Eros Ramazzotti.
– La incondicional, Luis Miguel.
– Lloran las rosas, Christian Castro.
– Yo te voy a amar, N SYNC.
– No me ames, Jennifer Lopez y Marc Anthony.
– Tú, Noelia.
– Por amarte así, Christian Castro.
– Por ti me casare, Eros Ramazzotti.
– Fuiste tú, Ricardo Arjona.
– Dime que no, Ricardo Arjona.
– Me va a extrañar, Ricardo Montaner.
– Bailar pegados, Sergio Dalma.
– Entra en mi vida, Sin Bandera
– Mientes tan bien, Sin Bandera
– A puro dolor, Son by for.
– Te amo, Franco de Vita.
– Usted se me llevó la vida, Alexandre Pires.
– No me doy por vencido, Luis Fonsi.
