Prize(s) Winners in Theater Performance Lighting
Lighting Design/Product Company EO project / Jésica Elizondo
Lead Designers Jésica Elizondo
Client mmmmmmmm sonido escena / EO project
Photo Credits Photography: Paulina Cervantes / Marina España / Jésica Elizondo
Other Credits Concept, research, creation and direction: Jésica Elizondo y Manuel Estrella Chi.
Completion Date December 2023
Project Location Mexico City. Centro de Cultura Digital / CEART Playas de Rosarito. Baja California México.
Entry DescriptionCUERPO NO CUERPO is a performative work/installation created by the artists Je?sica Elizondo and Manuel Estrella in which, in a playful way, they share sketches, thoughts and experiments that have served them to create dialogues between the human body, sound, light, objects and their powers, taking as the main exploration tool "listening" of the human and non-human bodies with which they inhabit.
This is a project that raises in a metaphorically way an important question in these times WHAT ARE THE BODIES THAT MATTER? The artwork breaks into everyday life, allowing the poetic side of existence to emerge.
This proposal is made up of two human performers and several non-human performers. Composed by small stages in the space, in each one of them is created with small motors that dialogue and compose with different types of bodies and stimuli, such as the human body, the sound, the light and the material body. The audience walks through the space next to the performers.
Sustainability ApproachThe sustainability of this piece navigates between the circular economy, energy efficiency and social sustainability. In this performative installation we promote the use of several elements used in other productions to, in addition to extending the life of the materials, deepen the creative relationship with each of the elements. Eighty percent of the lighting is made up of small LED lamps with an energy consumption of 5 watts and is complemented by low-consumption light fixtures found in each headquarters space. Furthermore, the dramaturgy of the work, with a focus on social sustainability, invites us to reflect on our living on the earth and its natural resources through the creation of metaphors and visual landscapes.
Company DescriptionStage lighting artist, born in Mexico City. She likes to think of her work as part of an investigation of the processes of transformation and enabling space-time in the living arts. Her work focuses on space conceptualization and light creation with special interest in other types of bodies that contain choreographic knowledge. LIT LIGHTING DESIGN AWARDS WINNER 2022 & 2021, runner up at The WIL Award 2021, honorable Mention LIT Lighting Design Awards 2020 and three-time winner of the Best Lighting Design of the National Prize for Contemporary Choreographic Creation in 2019, 2011 and 2008.
