https://manuelrodriguezr.com manuelrodriguezr Sun, 08 Mar 2026 18:33:25 +0000 https://manuelrodriguezr.com en https://manuelrodriguezr.com/Nav Mon, 11 Jan 2021 13:03:09 +0000 manuelrodriguezr https://manuelrodriguezr.com/Nav OTRA COSA QUE NO ES UNA CONFERENCIA ZERO ALIEN41°22′14″N 2°09′00″E &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;MANUPENSAR EL MUSEO COMO UN CUERPOENTERTAINMENTSCREENSAVERBODY ON PAPERBODY ON PAPER PHOTOBOOKBODYBUILDERR.E.MVENUEHACER VISIBLE, LO INVISIBLEBETA_VISIONLOOSER KINGSLIMITS BLUE COLORED SEQUENCE https://manuelrodriguezr.com/MANU Sun, 14 Aug 2022 17:52:19 +0000 manuelrodriguezr https://manuelrodriguezr.com/MANU El término MANU proviene del Sánscrito, en la mitología oriental es el nombre que se le da al primer ser humano. La tipología del primer Avatar sobre la tierra, una representación&nbsp;visual, un regreso a la forma. Este proyecto parte como una indagación en cuestiones identitarias a través de mi propia cosmología. Un espacio de invocación y de encantamiento.&nbsp;Una oportunidad de reescribir cada una de las letras que componen mi nombre. Cuando bailo, mi cuerpo se desfasa de mi mismo. Se pierde y se encuentra continuamente. Me diluyo en un devenir constante, en la búsqueda de mi propia ausencia, en la ilusión de vislumbrarme, de nombrarme: MANU. La distancia del nombre. Creación e interpretación:&nbsp;Manuel Rodriguez Acompañamiento artístico: Paz Rojo Iluminación: Victor Colmenero&nbsp; Coproducción: Centro Coreográfico Canal / Teatros del Canal&nbsp; Agradecimientos a Javier Pividal, Miguel Alvarez-Fernandez, Elias Aguirre y Sara Jassim&nbsp;🔗 Artículo de Mercedes Caballero en el periódico El Pais 🔗 Artículo de Omar Khan en la revista SusyQ [ENG]The term MANU comes from Sanskrit: in Eastern mythology it names the first human being, the archetype of the first avatar on earth, a foundational image, a return to form. This project emerges as an inquiry into identity through my own cosmology. A space of invocation and enchantment. An opportunity to rewrite, one by one, the letters that compose my name. When I dance, my body slips out of phase with myself. It loses and finds itself continually. I dissolve into a constant becoming, in the search for my own absence, in the fleeting illusion of glimpsing myself, of naming myself: MANU.The distance of the name. The echo of what precedes me and, at the same time, exceeds me. <img width="3500" height="2329" width_o="3500" height_o="2329" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/00c502f0809c8066dcdad8930353c967a71bcb3dae784d4d8c5d22b37edcfbc8/20220831_pablolorente_0581.jpg" data-mid="154564132" border="0" alt="&copy;Pablo Llorente" data-caption="©Pablo Llorente" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/00c502f0809c8066dcdad8930353c967a71bcb3dae784d4d8c5d22b37edcfbc8/20220831_pablolorente_0581.jpg" /> <img width="3500" height="2329" width_o="3500" height_o="2329" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d6b2c35dcbe3af6c46d5e3bd09e205149523b6bf60e37a0eebd1de18a84f736b/20220831_pablolorente_1026.jpg" data-mid="154574608" border="0" alt="&copy;Pablo Llorente" data-caption="©Pablo Llorente" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d6b2c35dcbe3af6c46d5e3bd09e205149523b6bf60e37a0eebd1de18a84f736b/20220831_pablolorente_1026.jpg" /> <img width="2480" height="3508" width_o="2480" height_o="3508" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/dcb148ae7ebf7ae4c589eeb0859cffc4f5675f53fd21fd844eb2af1c787df8a0/Manu-poster-final-1.jpg" data-mid="154342026" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/dcb148ae7ebf7ae4c589eeb0859cffc4f5675f53fd21fd844eb2af1c787df8a0/Manu-poster-final-1.jpg" /> <img width="2817" height="3937" width_o="2817" height_o="3937" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ed07e4bd44929e5c8b0ead163fd74de0fec3471d9b8b5d96060bd5cc4f6e53af/1F5A4049-2-low-res.jpg" data-mid="151199833" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ed07e4bd44929e5c8b0ead163fd74de0fec3471d9b8b5d96060bd5cc4f6e53af/1F5A4049-2-low-res.jpg" /> https://manuelrodriguezr.com/Otra-cosa-que-no-es-una-conferencia Sun, 08 Mar 2026 18:33:25 +0000 manuelrodriguezr https://manuelrodriguezr.com/Otra-cosa-que-no-es-una-conferencia ¿Qué significa ser humano cuando lo humano se desborda? Este desbordamiento no apunta a un futuro distópico, sino a la condición de nuestro presente. Cuerpos atravesados por memorias que irrumpen, por lenguajes que los exceden, por tecnologías que los predicen incluso antes de que actúen. En “Otra cosa que no es una conferencia”, el formato se desarma para transformarse en un espacio indómito donde la palabra se deshace en gesto y el consenso se desvanece en su propia sombra. En este territorio en tránsito y temblor, el sentido acontece entre los cuerpos, en el choque, en la fuga, en lo incompleto. Lo humano no es sustancia, sino relación: una práctica de resistencia que arde en los bordes del decir. Dirección y coreografía: Manuel Rodríguez Creación e interpretación: Søren Evinson, Rodrigo Sobarzo, Laila Tafur y Manuel Rodríguez Acompañamiento artístico: Rodrigo Sobarzo Iluminación: Ivan Cascon Sonorización: Lavern.co Estilismo: Manuel Rodríguez Estrategia, acompañamiento y producción: Muntsa Roca – Lila Brick Fotografía: Bego Solís Coproducción de: &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;<img width="2090" height="1732" width_o="2090" height_o="1732" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0bcc6c14c30b2b83b26d6552543e700ef663aeb8ec4aeed2f90efc3b5bec8713/LOGO-MERCAT-NOU.png" data-mid="249575891" border="0" data-scale="19" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/0bcc6c14c30b2b83b26d6552543e700ef663aeb8ec4aeed2f90efc3b5bec8713/LOGO-MERCAT-NOU.png" />&nbsp;<img width="886" height="477" width_o="886" height_o="477" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1849100c5b1781a0d89500934d1e9f1c114f9b3c23d7bf5dd4279f0e379ad25c/272129910_330630198947034_2279311378279260939_n.jpg" data-mid="249576572" border="0" data-scale="20" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/886/i/1849100c5b1781a0d89500934d1e9f1c114f9b3c23d7bf5dd4279f0e379ad25c/272129910_330630198947034_2279311378279260939_n.jpg" /> Un proyecto en colaboración con:<img width="1146" height="1018" width_o="1146" height_o="1018" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/776578f84208ddfc0c8f783988fb1f6138a16f7bee7aace5b496e0e7f0faa9df/AAIICC-vertical_1tinta.png" data-mid="249574987" border="0" data-scale="34" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/776578f84208ddfc0c8f783988fb1f6138a16f7bee7aace5b496e0e7f0faa9df/AAIICC-vertical_1tinta.png" /> Con el apoyo de Graner Centre de Creació, Fabra i Coats: Fàbrica de Creació, El Canal de Salt y La Caldera. [ENG] What does it mean to be human when humanness overflows? This overflow does not point to a dystopian future, but to the very condition of our present. Bodies crossed by memories that erupt, by languages that exceed them, by technologies that predict them even before they act. In “OTRA COSA QUE NO ES UNA CONFERENCIA”, the format unravels and becomes an untamed space where words dissolve into gesture and consensus fades into its own shadow. In this territory of transit and tremor, meaning happens between bodies — in the collision, the escape, the incompleteness. The human is not a substance but a relation: a practice of resistance that burns at the edges of what can be said. <img width="2309" height="3698" width_o="2309" height_o="3698" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f244fc4972a2a1cdd72eadcc6ef5c67d76d658c877966bc96b726952648beaa1/_T4A8995-1_rrss.jpg" data-mid="245764858" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f244fc4972a2a1cdd72eadcc6ef5c67d76d658c877966bc96b726952648beaa1/_T4A8995-1_rrss.jpg" /> <img width="2800" height="1867" width_o="2800" height_o="1867" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/332593252c845299f9e11c420a53187824d590f05d0a25c0463d2a84e717768f/_T4A8263-3_rrss.jpg" data-mid="245764854" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/332593252c845299f9e11c420a53187824d590f05d0a25c0463d2a84e717768f/_T4A8263-3_rrss.jpg" /> <img width="6720" height="8500" width_o="6720" height_o="8500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/73fb72cfaba4b6a5bb86a0fc997a21d2dc0a9dfd8e36368333283fa12e08f497/_T4A8452-1_fondo.jpg" data-mid="245764935" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/73fb72cfaba4b6a5bb86a0fc997a21d2dc0a9dfd8e36368333283fa12e08f497/_T4A8452-1_fondo.jpg" /> https://manuelrodriguezr.com/ZERO Tue, 03 Jun 2025 10:25:00 +0000 manuelrodriguezr https://manuelrodriguezr.com/ZERO “ZERO” is that which precedes everything, or what remains when everything has ceased. An origin and a final threshold at the same time. It was the exit from my mother's body, and my entrance into this world. My mouth is that threshold where words attempt to be born. My throat, my stomach, resonate with their ghost. Breath that burns like a fire, prior to language. “Zero” as an attempt to capture the intangible, to outline the human desire to make a world through matter. A gesture that stumbles at the very edge of meaning, showing the impossibility of grasping that which, like liquid, slips through the fingers. The piece is a poetic exploration where the body is a living, mutable language, a surface that folds over itself, overflowing its meanings. The performer inhabits the space as a fragmentary archive: a body full of gaps, tensions, and desires in the process of reconfiguration. A sensitive landscape as an organism that thinks, listens, and is affected by itself. This body coexists with a constellation of speculative objects as vestiges of a non-linear time. Memories inscribed of an extinct language, or one still to come.With eternal love, I dedicate this piece to my mother, Aurora. RIP &lt;3 &nbsp; Created and performed by Manuel Rodriguez Installation, Images and light: Manuel Rodriguez Supervision: Darko Dragicevic Supported by Stockholm University of the Arts within the frame of the Master Program “New Performative Practices”. Photo: Gergely Lászlo Ofner <img width="2479" height="3508" width_o="2479" height_o="3508" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/dc91b2cdac5bbdb347ec04e4297121901a3ddc0ffcf0f9d1446c8209f9e0334f/ALIEN-Steinslandberliner.jpg" data-mid="247371291" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/dc91b2cdac5bbdb347ec04e4297121901a3ddc0ffcf0f9d1446c8209f9e0334f/ALIEN-Steinslandberliner.jpg" /> <img width="1622" height="2160" width_o="1622" height_o="2160" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6eab6d2fa860b9964e66951f22a02a4dbab0757176a5dec84775bc043afd9df4/ManuelRodriguez_Zero_08052025_Stockholm_SKH_NPP_GergelyOfner_web_16.jpg" data-mid="234097926" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/6eab6d2fa860b9964e66951f22a02a4dbab0757176a5dec84775bc043afd9df4/ManuelRodriguez_Zero_08052025_Stockholm_SKH_NPP_GergelyOfner_web_16.jpg" /> <img width="2160" height="1622" width_o="2160" height_o="1622" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b4931d236eb579e88bc23d0003bdcb4bfced4240685c016f504ff1045288d2b9/ManuelRodriguez_Zero_08052025_Stockholm_SKH_NPP_GergelyOfner_web_22.jpg" data-mid="234097916" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b4931d236eb579e88bc23d0003bdcb4bfced4240685c016f504ff1045288d2b9/ManuelRodriguez_Zero_08052025_Stockholm_SKH_NPP_GergelyOfner_web_22.jpg" /> <img width="2160" height="1622" width_o="2160" height_o="1622" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/fe1e3e3528b83725fae79b1beb987ec1ba1ecfea780cd71c13165258f6cd379c/ManuelRodriguez_Zero_08052025_Stockholm_SKH_NPP_GergelyOfner_web_26.jpg" data-mid="234097908" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/fe1e3e3528b83725fae79b1beb987ec1ba1ecfea780cd71c13165258f6cd379c/ManuelRodriguez_Zero_08052025_Stockholm_SKH_NPP_GergelyOfner_web_26.jpg" /> <img width="1622" height="2160" width_o="1622" height_o="2160" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6119136cc21b92e892da53f73f9ba4146b3f36479cce1097fde2d721918df06a/ManuelRodriguez_Zero_08052025_Stockholm_SKH_NPP_GergelyOfner_web_30.jpg" data-mid="234097956" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/6119136cc21b92e892da53f73f9ba4146b3f36479cce1097fde2d721918df06a/ManuelRodriguez_Zero_08052025_Stockholm_SKH_NPP_GergelyOfner_web_30.jpg" /> <img width="1622" height="2160" width_o="1622" height_o="2160" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a09d8b50eab0dbbb38cf6f3f90211b4f3cf1613be843ba9a5b69c610d1f16ea2/ManuelRodriguez_Zero_08052025_Stockholm_SKH_NPP_GergelyOfner_web_17.jpg" data-mid="234097710" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a09d8b50eab0dbbb38cf6f3f90211b4f3cf1613be843ba9a5b69c610d1f16ea2/ManuelRodriguez_Zero_08052025_Stockholm_SKH_NPP_GergelyOfner_web_17.jpg" /> <img width="1622" height="2160" width_o="1622" height_o="2160" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d67f6bfe38908a477cd31178843727b8c7e9bf0f3d5f430cbde8ca2f4f3c3f1e/ManuelRodriguez_Zero_08052025_Stockholm_SKH_NPP_GergelyOfner_web_1.jpg" data-mid="234097716" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d67f6bfe38908a477cd31178843727b8c7e9bf0f3d5f430cbde8ca2f4f3c3f1e/ManuelRodriguez_Zero_08052025_Stockholm_SKH_NPP_GergelyOfner_web_1.jpg" /> <img width="1622" height="2160" width_o="1622" height_o="2160" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8ef6850ae49cfd45874195409894053ade0120406f7ea7627eae2e90e4dd76fd/ManuelRodriguez_Zero_08052025_Stockholm_SKH_NPP_GergelyOfner_web_63.jpg" data-mid="234097962" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/8ef6850ae49cfd45874195409894053ade0120406f7ea7627eae2e90e4dd76fd/ManuelRodriguez_Zero_08052025_Stockholm_SKH_NPP_GergelyOfner_web_63.jpg" /> https://manuelrodriguezr.com/ALIEN Wed, 12 Jun 2024 11:07:20 +0000 manuelrodriguezr https://manuelrodriguezr.com/ALIEN En ALIEN, el cuerpo del performer se reimagina como un organismo ficcional y sensorial: un lenguaje vivo que desarticula nociones de identidad y percepción. Desde una perspectiva posthumana, este solo especula sobre los usos alternativos del cuerpo humano como un instrumento, interrogando su propósito inherente y desafiando los paradigmas convencionales del diálogo y la transmisión de un mensaje. Se dice que cuando los astronautas regresan a la Tierra tras haberla contemplado desde la inmensidad, lo real adquiere matices de ficción. El planeta deja de ser una noción abstracta e inasible; mientras el observador se empequeñece, la Tierra se expande, volviéndose abrumadoramente vasta. Las palabras comunes resultan insuficientes, y la conciencia de sí mismo se extiende más allá de sus propios límites. Es en esta expansión, en este deslizamiento de lo real hacia lo ficcional, donde comienza ALIEN. Esta obra explora los límites de lo humano y su corporeidad: un cuerpo que, como la Tierra vista desde la distancia, se torna irreconocible, una imagen cambiante en la que nos perdemos y nos redescubrimos continuamente. Es un lugar de extrañamiento, resistencia y transformación. Aquí, el cuerpo no solo comunica; deviene un espacio en el que identidad y percepción se suspenden ingrávidos, abriéndose a nuevas potencialidades. ︎ Link to the open exposition in Research Catalogue&nbsp;(Framed in the New Performative Practices Master Program at the SKH University of Arts / Stockholm) Created and performed by Manuel Rodriguez Supported by Graner, Instituto de Cultura de Barcelona, Nau Ivanou, Elamor. [ENG] In ALIEN, the performer’s body is reimagined as a fictional and sensorial organism: a living language that dismantles notions of identity and perception. From a posthuman perspective, this solo piece speculates on alternative uses of the human body as an instrument, questioning its inherent purpose and challenging conventionalparadigms of dialogue and message transmission.︎ Link to the open exposition in Research Catalogue (Framed in the New Performative Practices Master Program at the SKH University of Arts / Stockholm). It is said that when astronauts return to Earth after witnessing it from the vastness of space, reality takes on shades of fiction. The planet ceases to be an abstract, elusive notion; as the observer grows smaller, the Earth expands, becoming overwhelmingly vast. Common words prove insufficient, and self-awareness stretches beyond its own boundaries. It is within this expansion, this slippage from the real into the fictional, that ALIEN begins. This work explores the limits of the human and its corporeality: a body that, like the Earth seen from afar, becomes unrecognizable—a shifting image in which we lose and rediscover ourselves endlessly. It is a place of estrangement, resistance, and transformation. Here, the body does not merely communicate; it becomes a space where identity and perception are suspended in weightlessness, opening up to new potentialities. <img width="4480" height="6720" width_o="4480" height_o="6720" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/cb21631ee325b79f41e77aef3754e804d8fa3fb3b660f5b71e9d83c40daf5f86/_20A8408.jpg" data-mid="247371452" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/cb21631ee325b79f41e77aef3754e804d8fa3fb3b660f5b71e9d83c40daf5f86/_20A8408.jpg" /><img width="1517" height="2275" width_o="1517" height_o="2275" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e3a6b77e7da4af815af8071d75c7301b0fcd1dc7e769190a49e9cc7df597a48e/IMG_3503-b-w.jpg" data-mid="223492832" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e3a6b77e7da4af815af8071d75c7301b0fcd1dc7e769190a49e9cc7df597a48e/IMG_3503-b-w.jpg" /><img width="6720" height="4480" width_o="6720" height_o="4480" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c631c581a9954599cfc04a5408f303a09ba4df7f1bdd6e76c1e4d7e03e007827/_20A8416.jpg" data-mid="247371453" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c631c581a9954599cfc04a5408f303a09ba4df7f1bdd6e76c1e4d7e03e007827/_20A8416.jpg" /> <img width="2362" height="3275" width_o="2362" height_o="3275" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/08fb5916ebbfdef8b5de269811488c13a03a6f90df428130409ecc0c44caa965/ALIEN-Manuel-Rodriguez.jpg" data-mid="223492846" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/08fb5916ebbfdef8b5de269811488c13a03a6f90df428130409ecc0c44caa965/ALIEN-Manuel-Rodriguez.jpg" />&nbsp; https://manuelrodriguezr.com/41-22-14-N-2-09-00-E Thu, 20 Jun 2024 10:07:03 +0000 manuelrodriguezr https://manuelrodriguezr.com/41-22-14-N-2-09-00-E Este proyecto es fruto de la colaboración entre la Fundación Mies van der Rohe y El Graner, centro de creación de danza y artes vivas (Texto para el programa) 41°22′14″N 2°09′00″E son las coordenadas del Pabellón Mies van der Rohe de Barcelona y dan título a la intervención artística que realizaré sobre otra intervención: Psicoarquitectura, la obra de Oscar Abraham Pavón que, a su vez, interviene el propio pabellón. Esta cadena de capas —mi acción sobre la obra de Pavón, su obra sobre la arquitectura de Mies, y la arquitectura de Mies sobre el terreno que ocupa— configura una constelación de gestos superpuestos. Un edificio que fue erigido en 1929, desmontado un año después y reconstruido en 1986 en su ubicación actual, convertido ya en su propia memoria reconstruida. La pieza de Pavón, centrada principalmente en un muro de ladrillo erguido sobre la lámina de agua del pabellón, cuyo reflejo duplica y distorsiona la forma, me invita a reconsiderar el poder innato del acto creativo y la manera en que la materialidad altera su sentido. Me interesa explorar el efecto y la resonancia que produce el cuerpo al entrar en fricción con materiales primordiales y arquetípicos como el agua, el ladrillo o el mármol. Quiero generar una deriva que atraviese el edificio y lo habite desde su dimensión transformadora y desde su memoria, confrontándolo con mi propia experiencia arquitectónica, que en este caso se condensa en la figura del muro. El templo, el museo, la biblioteca e incluso el muro son construcciones que, en distintos momentos de mi vida, me han representado. El muro, en particular, ha sido simultáneamente superficie artística y lugar de encuentro. A lo largo de los años he desarrollado con él una relación íntima, marcada por mi cercanía a la práctica del graffiti. He escrito sobre muros en incontables ocasiones —sobre todo mi nombre—, un nombre que ha cambiado con el tiempo, volviéndose abstracto, indecible, casi mudo.Para mí, el muro ha sido arrastre y resistencia. Un soporte cargado de potencia: muro de carga, muro de lamento, muro de deseo. Un muro que protesta, exhibe, oculta y resguarda. Muros que se levantan y que caen; muros de tránsito y muros frontera. El acto creativo, como la energía, no se crea ni se destruye: se transforma. Las ideas circulan, se alojan en nosotros y nos modifican; a veces habitan un edificio y a veces son los edificios quienes les dan forma. Lo arquitectónico puede ser origen, recipiente o catalizador, pero siempre es lugar de paso para lo que todavía está por imaginar. Creación e interpretación&nbsp; Manuel RodriguezAcompañamiento artístico: Javier PividalSonido: Aire Fotos: Pablo de Pastors [ENG] This project is the result of a collaboration between the Mies van der Rohe Foundation and El Graner, a center for the creation of dance and performing arts. (Text for the program) 41°22′14″N 2°09′00″E are the coordinates of the Mies van der Rohe Pavilion in Barcelona, and they give title to the artistic intervention I will carry out over another intervention: Psicoarquitectura, the work by Oscar Abraham Pavón, which itself intervenes upon the pavilion. This creates a constellation of superimposed gestures—my action over Pavón’s piece, his work over Mies’ architecture, and Mies’ building over the ground it now occupies. A structure erected in 1929, dismantled a year later, and reconstructed in 1986, the pavilion has become a reenactment of its own memory. Pavón’s piece, centered around a brick wall rising above the pavilion’s reflecting pool—its form doubled, distorted, and unsettled by the water—invites me to reconsider the innate power of the creative act and the ways materiality inflects and transforms it. I am interested in exploring the effect and resonance generated when the body collides with primordial, archetypal elements such as water, brick, or marble. My intention is to traverse the building and inhabit it from its transformative nature and its memory, confronting it with my own architectural experience, which in this case crystallizes in the figure of the wall. Temples, museums, libraries—and even walls—are architectural forms that have represented me at different stages of my life. The wall, in particular, has been both artistic support and site of encounter. Over the years, through my proximity to graffiti practice, I have developed a singular relationship with it. I have written on walls countless times—most often my name, a name that has changed over time, becoming abstract, unsayable, nearly mute.For me, the wall has been both pull and resistance. A structure charged with potency: a load-bearing wall, a wall of lament, a wall of desire. A wall that protests, exhibits, hides, and protects. Walls that rise and fall; walls of passage and walls as border. The creative act, like energy, is neither created nor destroyed: it only transforms. Ideas circulate; they inhabit us and reshape us. Sometimes they originate within a building, and sometimes it is through a building that they take form. Architecture can be source, container, or catalyst—but always a place of passage for what has yet to be imagined. <img width="2000" height="2500" width_o="2000" height_o="2500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/baad279a1180bebf58e9f51f9e61da533c40ff6224499459fc19c9e1b9015ef0/Manuel_Mies_178.jpg" data-mid="213273042" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/baad279a1180bebf58e9f51f9e61da533c40ff6224499459fc19c9e1b9015ef0/Manuel_Mies_178.jpg" /><img width="2000" height="2500" width_o="2000" height_o="2500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0c31b4580adc8a3b42080eaf7ec06a1111e5a82ed13d6f4983119cbf33daae22/Manuel_Mies_183.jpg" data-mid="213273104" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/0c31b4580adc8a3b42080eaf7ec06a1111e5a82ed13d6f4983119cbf33daae22/Manuel_Mies_183.jpg" /><img width="2000" height="2500" width_o="2000" height_o="2500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b53c15ad9a373ef4177f1b11b2576f9f3192ce1b1dc5fcbc7c0b5087d84b42a7/Manuel_Mies_158.jpg" data-mid="213273036" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b53c15ad9a373ef4177f1b11b2576f9f3192ce1b1dc5fcbc7c0b5087d84b42a7/Manuel_Mies_158.jpg" /><img width="2000" height="2500" width_o="2000" height_o="2500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/030acdd58c97f39dd4c1ad99e1e47297ef811cd1d1ca781e706aa966f1e7772e/Manuel_Mies_082.jpg" data-mid="213273197" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/030acdd58c97f39dd4c1ad99e1e47297ef811cd1d1ca781e706aa966f1e7772e/Manuel_Mies_082.jpg" /><img width="2000" height="2500" width_o="2000" height_o="2500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d24959eeed3b4f8112a25a439060d86a2b1fe720ed09bd2708e10319a3e76216/Manuel_Mies_098.jpg" data-mid="213273195" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d24959eeed3b4f8112a25a439060d86a2b1fe720ed09bd2708e10319a3e76216/Manuel_Mies_098.jpg" /><img width="2000" height="2500" width_o="2000" height_o="2500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8af09e18027943bca92279ae90a66b610b21e29d25035fc3d5f8fc6c9af98090/Manuel_Mies_136.jpg" data-mid="213273212" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/8af09e18027943bca92279ae90a66b610b21e29d25035fc3d5f8fc6c9af98090/Manuel_Mies_136.jpg" /><img width="2000" height="2500" width_o="2000" height_o="2500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/54af6127bce626ed9c5eeb3d4fc6f3684ce5e26da6dc02af7831794621d649bc/Manuel_Mies_066.jpg" data-mid="213285474" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/54af6127bce626ed9c5eeb3d4fc6f3684ce5e26da6dc02af7831794621d649bc/Manuel_Mies_066.jpg" /> https://manuelrodriguezr.com/PENSAR-EL-MUSEO-COMO-UN-CUERPO Tue, 12 Dec 2023 21:47:01 +0000 manuelrodriguezr https://manuelrodriguezr.com/PENSAR-EL-MUSEO-COMO-UN-CUERPO Pensar el museo como un cuerpo. Instalación / performance para el Museo TEA de Tenerife. Dentro del marco del Programa “Por asalto”, curado por Javier Arocena. Un codigo indescifrable&nbsp;Texto de Javier Arocena / Fotos de Derek Pedros<img width="2300" height="1478" width_o="2300" height_o="1478" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d954c11c2841d591ab84bc47cd555d39c5c0254cf2b86895017f2687cc7d0b2d/Captura-de-pantalla-2024-06-14-a-las-20.49.09.png" data-mid="212935371" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d954c11c2841d591ab84bc47cd555d39c5c0254cf2b86895017f2687cc7d0b2d/Captura-de-pantalla-2024-06-14-a-las-20.49.09.png" /> Representacion de la vista superior del museo después de la intervención El propio edificio va señalando a través de sus particularidades un posible código. Se hace una lectura de la epidermis arquitectónica y se consideran las afectaciones de asentamientos estructurales, materialidad, tiempo, ambiente, climatología y usos.Esta memoria se traduce en fisuras, grietas.La artista, de forma totalmente aleatoria, va interpretando y grafiando las señales que el propio edificio parece indicar, dando lugar a un código totalmente abierto. Éste irá mutando cada día cuando el ojo de la intérprete haga una nueva lectura de la superficie y percibe nuevas marcas en la piel del edificio. Se trata de una relectura completamente despojada de memoria consciente, en la que el código es reescrito en cada sesión. La trama de puntos resultante permite infinidad de combinaciones e interpretaciones posibles, el código se transforma con cada nuevo interlocutor y su propia mirada individualizada.Se revelan los signos de aquello que estuvo ahí todo el tiempo pero que en realidad no existe y que toma forma en la voluntad individual de cada interlocutor. Un ejercicio de miradas imposibles, hacia el interior de cuerpo y proceso e incluso de la parte escondida de la acción. Éste sería el grafema del edificio, su firma, su tag o etiqueta. Ser leído por otras, que interpretan e identifican el objeto de contemplación. Graffiti, o firma, o sello de identidad que quiere expandirse y darse a conocer más allá del individuo ante la problemática de decir “yo”. El signo como significante de múltiples significados posibles. Cuerpo que es código / Cuerpo como topografía. El cuerpo-artista se lee a sí mismo del mismo modo y traduce esta forma de lectura a la arquitectura/estructura física, buscando las convergencias y destacando los surcos en hueso, carne y piel. Este modo de observar la cartografía física resulta en un mapeado interno de la materia corpórea que será continuamente leído, interpretado, cuestionado y reconducido. Una identidad cambiante, que obedece a la continua relectura, desde el cuestionar y enfocar, por parte de ejecutante y espectador. El artista del movimiento es un ser para la mirada. Es una corporalidad que pone en movimiento el pensamiento que mira ya que el hecho visual no sucede en el globo ocular y no es un acto concreto, sino un proceso de pensamiento. El cuerpo del artista observa a su vez al espectador con lo que el ojo que mira se convierte en ojo mirado, transformando la relación bidireccional espectador - ejecutante en un verse ver. Pero puede el cuerpo inmóvil de un espectador entrar en diálogo efectivo con el cuerpo activo de la ejecutante?La acción escénica transcurre en un tiempo durante el cual la espectadora es sustraída de su ritmo cotidiano, se produce una detención que traslada al cuerpo de la espectadora a una inmovilidad, una suspensión. Dicho tiempo suspendido activa la mirada bidireccional de espectadora-ejecutante.Ambas toman parte en un acto que es inmediatamente colectivo, ya que no existe un único espectador ni una única forma de mirar. [ENG]Think of the museum as a body. Installation / performance for the TEA Museum of Tenerife. Within the framework of the “By assault” Program, curated by Javier Arocena. The indecipherable code The building itself indicates a possible code through its particularities. A reading of the architectural epidermis can be made and the affectations of structural settlements, materiality, time, environment, climatology and uses are considered. This memory translates into fissures or cracks. The artist, in a totally random way, interprets and graphs the signals that the building itself seems to indicate, giving rise to a totally open code. It will change every day when the artist's eye makes a new reading of the surface and perceives new marks on the skin of the building. It is a rereading completely stripped of conscious memory, in which the code is rewritten in each session. The resulting grid of dots allows for an infinite number of possible combinations and interpretations, the code transforms with each new interlocutor and their own individualized gaze. The signs of what was there all the time but that in reality does not exist and that takes shape in the individual will of each interlocutor are revealed. An exercise of impossible looks, towards the interior of the body and process and even the hidden part of the action. This would be the building's grapheme, its signature, its tag or label. Being read by others, who interpret and identify the object of contemplation. Graffiti, or signature, or identity seal that wants to expand and make itself known beyond the individual in the face of the problem of saying "I". The sign as signifier of multiple possible meanings. For the writing, 80kg of sand from La Nea beach (Tenerife) was used. The natural resources of the territory are used to write the territory itself. The resulting flat diagram creates a series of volumes, protuberances that build a communicating space that can be traversed, danced, inhabited. A variable code that can also be read from above, like a geoglyph, expanding its scope. The indecipherable code only makes sense in individualized reading, in the intimate bond that is generated from observing the body or inhabiting space. Translating what is already present from the past and future, which will only exist with the interpellating capacity of the plot. This manages to vary the way of looking at the territory, making the viewer stop and, from questioning, build their possible versions. Artistic action is capable of carrying out the political gesture of varying the paths and the viewer's gaze. Once the actions are completed, they are diluted. The 80 kg of sand return to their place of origin. Body as code / Body as topography. The body-artist reads itself in the same way and translates this form of reading to the architecture/physical structure, looking for convergences and highlighting the grooves in bone, flesh and skin. This way of observing the physical cartography results in an internal mapping of corporeal matter that will be continuously be read, interpreted, questioned and redirected. A changing identity, which obeys the continuous rethought, through questioning and focusing, of the performer and the spectator. The artist of movement is a being for the gaze. It is a corporality that sets in motion the thought that looks, since the visual fact does not happen in the eyeball and it is not a concrete act, but a thinking process. The artist's body also observes the viewer, so that the eye that looks becomes the eye that is being looked at, transforming the bidirectional relationship between spectator and performer into seeing oneself see.But can the motionless body of a spectator enter into an effective dialogue with the active body of the performer? The scenic action takes place in a time during which the spectator is subtracted from her daily rhythm, a deceleration occurs that moves the body of the spectator to an immobility, a suspension. This suspended time activates the bidirectional gaze of the spectator-performer.Both take part in an act that is immediately collective, since there is not a single spectator or a single way of looking. 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No inaugura una narrativa ni propone un inicio; simplemente aparece, desplazando un orden previo para que algo —el show, la exposición, la mirada— pueda tener lugar. En escena, tres figuras afectadas se mueven como si fueran atravesadas por fuerzas opuestas: el deseo de mostrarse y el cansancio de hacerlo, la demanda del público y el reflejo distorsionado de su propia imagen. La pieza habita la tensión entre la quietud meditativa y la maquinaria del entretenimiento. Desde ahí, compone un retrato a la vez tierno y cruel de la distancia empática: ese espacio donde los cuerpos se disuelven en fragmentos —como un mandala que se deshace en cientos de partículas, como un perfil digital construido a base de instantes que se consumen solos. Cuando la distancia es grande, el personaje se reduce a un conjunto de partes; cuando se acerca, emerge la posibilidad de un encuentro con el ser antropomórfico que habita tanto en mí como en el otro. La obra se organiza en tres movimientos. Mandala: un primer gesto que plantea el universo de la fragmentación. Fractal: su desdoblamiento, un episodio donde dos intérpretes despliegan múltiples versiones de un mismo impulso. Tótem: una figura vertical y simbólica que no cierra la obra, sino que la suspende; un espacio imaginario que existe entre la mirada del espectador y el cuerpo que se ofrece en escena. Entertainment retoma mis preguntas sobre identidad, contemplación y los territorios liminales donde el cuerpo deja de ser una forma estable y se convierte en un tránsito, una superficie de afectos, un umbral entre la presencia y su desvanecimiento. Dirección y coreografía:&nbsp;Manuel Rodriguez Interpretación: Paula Tato, Candela Capitán y Manuel Rodriguez Música: Aire&nbsp; Vestuario: Paloma Wool Directora de Vestuario: Rosa Codina Fotografía: Hugo de la Rosa y Manuel Rodriguez Asesoramiento dramatúrgico: Roberto Fratini Una pieza coproducida por ELAMOR Colaboradores:&nbsp;Aliansat&nbsp;/ Sat! Teatre, Ayuntamiento de Barcelona,&nbsp;Tanzhaus Zürich, Galeria Estrany - de la Mota Art Advisors, 112 Lab, SaNau Dansa, Nau Ivanow.&nbsp;&nbsp; [ENG]ENTERTAINMENT (2021) enters by interruption. It does not open a narrative nor announce a beginning; it simply appears, shifting a preexisting order so that something else —the show, exposure, the gaze— can take place.Onstage, three affected figures move as if pulled by opposing forces: the desire to be seen and the fatigue of visibility, the demand of the audience and the distorted echo of their own self-image. The piece inhabits the tension between meditative stillness and the machinery of entertainment. From this friction, it sketches a portrait that is both tender and cruel, circling the notion of empathic distance —that space where bodies dissolve into fragments, like a mandala scattering into particles or a digital profile made of moments that consume themselves. When the distance is vast, the character becomes only a collection of parts; when it narrows, an encounter becomes possible with the anthropomorphic being that lives both in oneself and in the other. The work unfolds in three movements. Mandala: a first gesture that sets up the universe of fragmentation. Fractal: its doubling, an episode in which two performers multiply and fold different versions of a shared impulse. Totem: a symbolic verticality that does not close the piece but suspends it —an imaginary space situated between the spectator’s gaze and the body that presents itself onstage. Entertainment returns to questions that move through my practice: identity as a shifting construct, contemplation as resistance, and the liminal territories where the body ceases to be a fixed form and becomes a passage —a surface of affects, a threshold between presence and its own dissolution <img width="3072" height="1920" width_o="3072" height_o="1920" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/10ec50e36c28e9bb5dfe4e26db1218ff12d66f1325629e12cbced0673b24c9e5/Captura-de-pantalla-2021-12-12-a-las-14.19.49.png" data-mid="131556860" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/10ec50e36c28e9bb5dfe4e26db1218ff12d66f1325629e12cbced0673b24c9e5/Captura-de-pantalla-2021-12-12-a-las-14.19.49.png" /> <img width="5317" height="3545" width_o="5317" height_o="3545" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/443f2785fce64dd3105043f22245192d1f1efa140d52f8f69161a10801215299/IMG_2029.3.jpg" data-mid="131556698" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/443f2785fce64dd3105043f22245192d1f1efa140d52f8f69161a10801215299/IMG_2029.3.jpg" /> <img width="3072" height="1920" width_o="3072" height_o="1920" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b5c1ecb6739a29889401f6ed3f310f88a96d676c535dd2f9277b1d38714056cf/Captura-de-pantalla-2021-12-12-a-las-14.21.08.png" data-mid="131556303" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b5c1ecb6739a29889401f6ed3f310f88a96d676c535dd2f9277b1d38714056cf/Captura-de-pantalla-2021-12-12-a-las-14.21.08.png" /> <img width="4504" height="3003" width_o="4504" height_o="3003" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0eec319fb120d48e9690d6c06a78f530916f9258f89d524efcd9401447bbb211/IMG_2125-4.2.3.4.jpg" data-mid="131556693" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/0eec319fb120d48e9690d6c06a78f530916f9258f89d524efcd9401447bbb211/IMG_2125-4.2.3.4.jpg" /> <img width="1134" height="756" width_o="1134" height_o="756" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3d701c05a26a8562fb9e81aa154e68f41c57bb201f5d93ebcde8fb727643a9a8/_DSC_7224-copy.jpg" data-mid="137413823" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/3d701c05a26a8562fb9e81aa154e68f41c57bb201f5d93ebcde8fb727643a9a8/_DSC_7224-copy.jpg" /> <img width="1134" height="756" width_o="1134" height_o="756" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ec484c41a62699a7be7c0dd8dd62e7ec9bd637cbd50a03e59acb9fd237d566a3/_DSC_7422-copy.jpg" data-mid="137413910" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ec484c41a62699a7be7c0dd8dd62e7ec9bd637cbd50a03e59acb9fd237d566a3/_DSC_7422-copy.jpg" /> <img width="1134" height="756" width_o="1134" height_o="756" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1fc75d62eb0411a695387c50d61b55cdb2223773dcf15be0e1a999ab4ff6b86f/_DSC_7105-copy.jpg" data-mid="137414046" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/1fc75d62eb0411a695387c50d61b55cdb2223773dcf15be0e1a999ab4ff6b86f/_DSC_7105-copy.jpg" /> <img width="1134" height="756" width_o="1134" height_o="756" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8d0f2761a935677bf061c3e78837aa30e8f10e0c43f8c7a0fdb6b985a80b940e/_DSC_7033-copy.jpg" data-mid="137414053" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/8d0f2761a935677bf061c3e78837aa30e8f10e0c43f8c7a0fdb6b985a80b940e/_DSC_7033-copy.jpg" /> <img width="1134" height="756" width_o="1134" height_o="756" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7c3a3f18f42abdce8e6c31f7e46a745acad4a9297385d9c9ad51bf1229783000/_DSC_7109-copy.jpg" data-mid="137414067" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/7c3a3f18f42abdce8e6c31f7e46a745acad4a9297385d9c9ad51bf1229783000/_DSC_7109-copy.jpg" /> <img width="1134" height="756" width_o="1134" height_o="756" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/910566ccf7a24bcc565855a37fe596ad23c3df1ff9c698e1462681aa3295a7df/_DSC_7561.jpg" data-mid="137414112" border="0" alt="&copy; Hugo De la Rosa" data-caption="© Hugo De la Rosa" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/910566ccf7a24bcc565855a37fe596ad23c3df1ff9c698e1462681aa3295a7df/_DSC_7561.jpg" /> https://manuelrodriguezr.com/Project-Body-on-paper Mon, 11 Jan 2021 15:58:03 +0000 manuelrodriguezr https://manuelrodriguezr.com/Project-Body-on-paper BODY ON PAPER es un proyecto multidisciplinar que se articula en tres dispositivos: un libro de fotografía, un solo escénico y una instalación concebida para el espacio expositivo. La obra se configura como una investigación en torno a la tensión entre sutileza y fractura, explorando simultáneamente la fragilidad y la resiliencia del vínculo que establecemos con nosotros mismos y con nuestro entorno. En este marco, lo inestable y lo efímero no aparecen como anomalías, sino como condiciones constitutivas de la experiencia. La materialidad ocupa un lugar central en este proceso: el papel, la imagen y el cuerpo funcionan como superficies de inscripción, huella y desgaste, en diálogo con otros materiales como cuerdas, metal, cintas de contención o arena. Cada uno de estos elementos introduce sus propias resistencias, tensiones y grados de maleabilidad, configurando un campo donde lo físico no es un mero soporte, sino un agente activo que condiciona, delimita y transforma. Lejos de ser neutra, la materia actúa como un sistema de fuerzas que inscribe el tiempo, evidencia la fricción y hace visible lo que se descompone o se desplaza. Así, los materiales no solo sostienen la obra, sino que participan en la construcción de sentido, activando relaciones entre contención y liberación, fijación y disolución. Lejos de aspirar a una fijación de sentido, Body on Paper asume la impermanencia como principio estructural: un estado de transformación continua que exige procesos constantes de reconfiguración y desplazamiento. Así, la identidad se entiende no como una entidad fija, sino como un campo dinámico, atravesado por variaciones, tensiones y adaptaciones.&nbsp; Creación e interpretación: Manuel Rodriguez Diseño de vestuario: Tiscar Espadas Música y visión externa: Pablo Esbert Lilienfeld Iluminación: Horne Horneman Diseño gráfico/Fotolibro: Sara Jassim Fotografía/Fotolibro: Manuel Rodriguez Colaboradores: AC/E Acción Cultural Española, Graner Centro de Creación de Danza y Artes Vivas, Centro Danza Canal, Kyoto Art Center, Lavanderia a Vapore. Premiered at: Sâlmon Festival, Mercat de les Flors, Barcelona 2019 / 02 Feb [ENG]BODY ON PAPER is a multidisciplinary project articulated through three dispositifs: a photography book, a solo performance, and an installation conceived for exhibition spaces. The work unfolds as an inquiry into the tension between subtlety and rupture, exploring both the fragility and the resilience of the bonds we establish with ourselves and with our surroundings. Within this framework, instability and ephemerality do not appear as anomalies, but as constitutive conditions of experience. Materiality occupies a central role in this process: paper, image, and body function as surfaces of inscription, trace, and erosion, in dialogue with other materials such as ropes, barrier tapes, and sand. Each of these elements introduces its own resistances, tensions, and degrees of malleability, configuring a field in which the physical is not a neutral support but an active agent that conditions, delimits, and transforms. Rather than remaining passive, matter operates as a system of forces that registers time, exposes friction, and renders visible processes of decomposition and displacement. In this sense, materials do not merely sustain the work; they actively participate in the production of meaning, activating relations between containment and release, fixation and dissolution. Resisting any stabilization of meaning, Body on Paper embraces impermanence as a structural principle: a state of continuous transformation that demands ongoing processes of reconfiguration and shift. Identity thus emerges not as a fixed entity, but as a dynamic field shaped by variation, tension, and adaptation. <img width="5575" height="3717" width_o="5575" height_o="3717" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/fa2e170c17f148a60484d4fbbafe223442d3ea494ebde4252f8483a2b98d5286/_DSC7155.jpg" data-mid="137891982" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/fa2e170c17f148a60484d4fbbafe223442d3ea494ebde4252f8483a2b98d5286/_DSC7155.jpg" /> <img width="1181" height="1771" width_o="1181" height_o="1771" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/42626794410891094368ab4fafd6bf6da08d58eb23e864d841a077b86dc359a9/BOP-Japon-1-low.jpg" data-mid="99648129" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/42626794410891094368ab4fafd6bf6da08d58eb23e864d841a077b86dc359a9/BOP-Japon-1-low.jpg" /> <img width="4016" height="6016" width_o="4016" height_o="6016" 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Tomé esta decisión con la intención de comenzar el proyecto observando desde lejos, quise contemplar el cuerpo desde la distancia, desde un lugar con un paradigma diferente y así poder desdibujar significados establecidos. Ciertas inercias que venían reflejándose en mi trabajo desde hacia tiempo me llevaban a pensar que esto podría pasar en Japón, un lugar lejano, al que siempre quise ir y que me ha inspirado mucho. La ciudad, es otra fuente de inspiración para mi y era el escenario donde llevar a cavo este primer contacto. La ciudad como espacio colectivo, como reflejo, un ser vivo en continuo cambio. “La ciudad es un discurso, y este discurso es verdaderamente un lenguaje: la ciudad habla a sus habitantes, nosotros hablamos a nuestra ciudad, la ciudad en la que nos encontramos, sólo con habitarla, recorrerla, mirarla” (Barthes, 1993:260) All photos taken by Manuel Rodriguez, Tokyo &amp; Kyoto Nov 2017 Design by Sara Jassim Printed in Barcelona in 2019 Offset / Limited edition, 300 Copies Support: Graner Centre de Creaciò, Kyoto Art Center,&nbsp;ELAMOR editions. Thanks to: Mariko Konno and Ryuichi Tani. [ENG] The book is the first part of the project, an approach from the perspective of the cities of Tokyo and Kyoto, where all the photographs that make up the book were taken. I took this decision with the intention of starting the project by observing from far, I wanted to contemplate the body from a distance, from a place with a different paradigm and thus be able to blur established meanings. Certain inertias that have been in my work for a long time led me to think that this could happen in Japan, a place that I always wanted to go to and that has inspired me a lot. The city is another source of inspiration for me and it was the stage where to carry out this first contact. The city as a collective space, as a reflection, a living being in constant change. 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