LiveMovie

LiveMovie is a creative framework for site-specific work developed by Rodrigo Pardo, focusing on the relationship between spectators, performance and space. It explores how a real environment can become an active component of a performance, and how spectators can be invited to construct their own narratives by connecting what they see with what they already know, imagine or remember. The methodology has been developed and implemented by Rodrigo Pardo since 2007 through creations presented in contexts including La Biennale di Venezia, the European network IN SITU, the Festival Internacional de Buenos Aires and Napoli Teatro Festival. The LiveMovie workshop shares these creative tools with other artists. Through practical exercises and experimentation, participants work with real spaces, everyday situations and fictional elements to explore how different layers of reality can be brought together to create performance. Rather than starting from a predefined story, the process focuses on creating situations in which meaning can emerge through the encounter between space, performers and spectators. In this sense, LiveMovie is both a way of creating site-specific performances and a way of learning how to look at a place: to identify its narratives, contradictions, possibilities and invisible connections, and to transform them into material for performance.

• February 2010 — Bahía Blanca, Argentina: Asociación RANA and Espacio Vox