EXHIBITION

THE DANGERS OF OBEDIENCE- LOS PELIGROS DE LA OBEDIENCIA

El Espacio Odeón - Centro Cultural , Distrito Especial, Bogotá, 11/11/2015 - 11/12/2015

‪Carrera 5 N. 12c-73, Bogota

ABOUT

The Odeon Space - Cultural Center and Corner Casting Projects have HAZARDS OF OBEDIENCE. A project of visual artist Itziar Barrio which explores, through their own methods of casting, the power dynamics and constructed situations. Casting HAZARDS OF OBEDIENCE brings into play the desire and willingness of the actors to be recognized and get the job. Placing them in fictional and actual parameters, either through screenplays or her own life, Barrio reveals the formation of power through seduction.

Through an open call auditions actors presented for four days with Colombian theater director Johan Velandia where they will undergo a selection process. The project will be open to the public during the final days of the auditions; the entire process will be recorded and included in a video work. The recording will emphasize the experience created between the actors and the audience, and at the same time explore the boundaries and interstices of theater, video and performance art. Finally, the four selected players will eventually be part of the second phase of the dangers of obedience, which is the creation of a scene in real time and will be held in 2017.

The project is inspired by the results obtained by psychologist Stanley Milgram in 1961. HAZARDS it focuses on four characters involved in power dynamics within a scene of endless conflict. Earlier versions of this project have been carried out in the city of New York in the Abrons Arts Center (2013 and 2014) and the Festival of Theatre and Contemporary Dance of Bilbao (2010).

 (...) In the heart of "Casting The Perils of Obedience" is a comment about the desire of the public affirmation. Confrotados questions like "Are you a / a good / a liar / a?" The actors and actresses were forced to measure their privacy against the seduction of the cameras, the stage director, casting director, and unconsciously involved audience. This exploration of the unwilling entertainment foundations were well marked by a segment involving reading a famous monologue from the movie All About Eve (1950). In it, the character, a young aspiring actress, exultant shown to the "waves of love" spilling onto the actor or actress when the audience applauds, to be clear that it wants you.

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