Alondra Castellanos Arreola

My work is in the intersection of theatre, performance and visual arts, with a particular focus on materiality, movement andthe use of space.

Aside to my work as a maker, I collaborate as a performer with Mercedes Azpilicueta in the performance ​Molecular Love, with Sander Breure & Witte van Hulzen in the performance ​How can we know the dancer from the dance?​ and I am currently working with the artist David Weber-Krebs for the performances​ Balthazar ​and ​The Guardians of Sleep​.

6mm for an actual instrument

A choreography for two performers and a glass plate (3m x 1.60m x 6mm)

It is understood that the amount of images that we see in one day resembles the amount of images that somebody would be able to see in its whole life back in the Middle Ages. Glass is one of the materials that have more influence on the incorporation of an external rather “artificial” apparatus as had been first realised with the use of lenses and further developed into all kind of image transmitters nowadays.

The glass plate in the performance is used as an Instrument / Imagecatcher. At the beginning, a video showing an overload of images is being projected to the exact size of the glass plate. From there, the glass is being displaced through the room, leaving the projection behind creating new images that are captured due to the glass's transparency and reflection. The movement of the two performers carrying the glass plate is defined by the heaviness and fragility of the material, while it is being lifted and rotated through a linear trajectory in the room. Because of the rhythm and pace needed to move the glass plate the performance serves as a measurement or interval from one point to the other.