The Improper Point. Documentary
El punto impropio (2023) is a project by Javier Martín that creates a dialogue between choreographic work and sound research and visual materials in real time: a kind of auditory [A], somatic [S] and visual [V] recording and composition that, in a resonance exercise, activates and gives new meaning to the choreography. The work invites spectators to enter a laboratory in which the perception of the body is distorted and refined at the same time, suggesting new feelings. An experience that questions the perceived self, the identity built on the basis of commonly assumed projections, employing different technologies in the scene to explain the animal we are. A displacement towards other possible versions of our identity: how much of ourselves is alien to us, what is truly our own and where can we find it? Visual installation, expanded science and performativity. Concert, choreography and live cinema.
The project El punto impropio originated from the investigation of textures and the recording of body sounds in an anechoic chamber in the AtlanTTic Centre of the University of Vigo, and continued its journey thanks to the support of several art residencies over a year in Etopía Centro de Arte y Tecnología (Zaragoza), L’animal a l’esquena (Celrà, Girona), Guelra-Gnration (Braga, Portugal) and A Casa Vella (Amiadoso, Allariz, Ourense). The show finally premiered in March 2023 in the Sala Miguel Covarrubias de Danza of the National Autonomous University of Mexico in Mexico City.
The documentary screened in the CGAC collects visual, corporal, poetic and sonorous notes from the research work developed for Javier Martín’s choreographic show El punto impropio A/S/V and accompanies the team in its year-long research and investigation process.
7 p.m. Screening of the documentary El punto impropio
7.50 p.m. Talk-colloquium by Javier Martín (director of documentary and choreography) with Rosa Vázquez Santos (psychoanalyst).
JAVIER MARTÍN (A Coruña, 1980) conducts an epistemological and critical research project based on the art of movement. He is involved in choreographic and performative creation and has presented his work in Spain, Portugal, France, Russia, Ukraine, Mexico, Colombia, Uruguay or Guatemala. His work on movement and the body is based on the rigours of improvisation as the main method of creation and scenic language. He addresses the creation of dance from a transdisciplinary perspective, working together with several artists and frequently opening up his processes to other communities, seeking an enlarged or anarchist body.
ROSA VÁZQUEZ SANTOS (Santiago de Compostela, A Coruña, 1970) is a psychoanalyst of Lacanian orientation, member of the Lacanian School of Psychoanalysis and the International Psychoanalytical Association. She is a registered psychologist and holds a PhD in Art History. She contributes regularly to publications and blogs on psychoanalysis, field in which she is currently researching the figure of Aby Warburg. She practises in the city of Santiago de Compostela.