Txatxorra's cube

Sra Polaroiska
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This work by Sra. Polaroiska on a workshop armchair is part of a concrete action: a banquet on a beach. The guests let themselves go. Rationality disappears, and instinct takes full control. The sand covers the guests, and the mask of appearances vanishes.

Txatxorra's Cube takes place on a beach. A group of people walks to a table where a banquet is prepared. A fleeting image shows the same bodies crawling through the sand, highlighting the duality that will be present throughout the piece. The guests toast, drink, and eat. Their good manners contrast with the body's impulses. Moving a fork, then shaking the napkin vigorously until it falls to the ground. The action continues, and they become less and less masters of reason and "manners." They dance on chairs, fall clumsily into the sand, their clothes tear, they faint, and lie senseless on the table and the ground. We have witnessed a banquet where the guests have swallowed sand and crawled through the subconscious, showing the viewer that the body dominates the body, and that one cannot escape the instinctive impulse.

This work, created in 2004 in Digital Video, delves into the realm of video dance. The bodies loosen up, and movement flows dynamically. Something completely different from the artists' first work, Pero tú... ¿eres tú? No, yo soy su..., where the apparent rationality of enclosed spaces predominates, and the calculated movement of bodies merges with architecture. In this piece, however, the artists move to an exterior space. They transport the body to a new place, closer to the instinctive side of the human being, where impulsive and unleashed movement is provoked. A movement that no longer attends to reasons, in which bodies move when they need to move.

Technical datasheet

  • Title: Txatxorra's cube
  • Direction: Sra Polaroiska
  • Production: Sra. Polaroiska en sillon de taller. 2004.
  • Duration: 00:03:34
  • Original format: Mini DV
  • Formats: .mov
  • TV systems: NTSC - PAL
  • License: Copyright