19.10.2019A System in Collapse Is a System Moving Forward


Artist
Aimar Pérez Galí

Venue
 Blueproject Foundation


On the occasion of its sixth anniversary, celebrated in September 2019, Blueproject Foundation presents A System in Collapse Is a System Moving Forward by Aimar Pérez Galí. The performance will take place in Il Salotto on 19 October at 7 pm (in English) and at 9pm (in Spanish), during the final days of the It’s Not What You Think exhibition by Elmgreen & Dragset.

A System in Collapse Is a System Moving Forward is a dance piece that can be understood as the prologue to The Touching Community, a project that Aimar Pérez Galí began in 2015, and which investigates the parallel expansion of AIDS and Contact Improvisation during the 1980s and 1990s in Spain and certain Latin American countries. This dance technique was established by Steve Paxton and is based on the improvised movements that arise from the physical contact between two bodies, hence the contrast with the immunity policies that HIV/AIDS brought with it.

“A system in collapse is a system moving forward” was the phrase that dancer Arnie Zane pronounced to his artistic and life partner, dancer Bill T. Jones, before passing away as a result of AIDS. Taking this phrase as an analogy between the link that Pérez Galí speculates between the proliferation of the HIV/AIDS virus and the practice of Contact Improvisation, this piece/prologue presents the conference that Jon Greenberg, leading member of ACT UP NYC, gave at Arteleku (Donostia, Spain) in 1992, invited by artist Pepe Espaliú.


Concept and direction: Aimar Pérez Galí
Dance: Daniel Méndez Piña and Aimar Pérez Galí
Text: Jon Greenberg
Research Advisor: Aimar Arriola
Dramaturgy: Jaime Conde-Salazar
Concept and direction: Aimar Pérez Galí
Dance: Daniel Méndez Piña and Aimar Pérez Galí
Text: Jon Greenberg
Research Advisor: Aimar Arriola
Dramaturgy: Jaime Conde-Salazar
Production: CONDEGALÍ B.L.