Los Torreznos
Desert + 35 minutes + Normal Western Energy
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three performances: each duration approx 35 mins; video documentation above – 29 mins + 35 mins + 36 mins
Normal Western Energy was an additional performance to those advertised
From the original Festival website:
Desert is a new work by Los Torreznos, in simple English. It develops the metaphor of travelling across the desert but we work with our present presence in a very normal way.
(It’s a work that we are developing now and we have to finish by February 2010!)
With the support of F.A.R. (Future Arts Research), Arizona State University.
35 minutes is a work about time. Created in 2004 it has been performed in Shangai, Quebec, Venice Biennale 2007 and Madrid. It’s a kind of conceptual performance but done at the beginning of the 21st Century with a different sense of humour.
Los Torreznos was created in 2000 but Jaime Vallaure and Rafael Lamata have been working together since 1993. Action works from Los Torreznos include: Energy Spanish Normal, Election Night, The Passion according to Torreznos, My suitcases, where are my suitcases?, Perejil to Diwanija, Trusting in Shakespeare, Language Research, Treaty on some emotions, The reality officer, Culture, Money and Power. They have shown their work at Arctic Hot Festival, Kirkeness (Norway) / Nikel (Russia), Im-presentable Festival 08 (Madrid), Museum Moma (Shanghai), 2007 Venice Biennale, Spanish Pavilion, 2006, NRLA ’09, Fringe Festival Phoenix.