In my artistic practice I use theatre itself an inspiration tool to create new theatrical mechanism of attention. I’m inspired by how social media, video games and cinema are creating new ways of how we empathise and relate to each other. Through understanding the affect of technology I create performances that question the social encounter that theatre brings and create new ways to experience theatre in the XXI century. In order to achieve that, I find that all my works share certain commonalities which I use to define my practice:

-Training the audience to be an audience. When the audience enters a space, they have to figure it out how to watch or where to go. Breaking the normal audience routine, it activates a mental state of alert that will exercise their presence on the piece. The piece “entremes” is divided in seven parts and each of them relates with the audience differently, for example, as if they where students, or gamers or just passive spectators; within each part the audience has to find their position.

-Using gamification to breaking conventions and routines in an inviting way. Break a convention should not be “The thing”, but an artist should be on top of what definitions says about what “the things” are: when a piece require a certain transformation I like to also think how to design the access as if it would be a game. For example in my piece, “Funerals, welcome”, the audience has to face the wall and view the performance through individual 16 by 9 cm mirrors. Cinematic montage becomes a game for the audience; they become the editors of the piece, trying to frame in the reflection what they want to see.

-Exploring technology to inspire different ways to think about theatre. There is a constant tendency to get closer to technology; I like to give a second thought to the technologies that we are getting used to in order to find a way to apply them in different ways or context. The piece “Workingmaking out” is just a presentation of a future home DVD of exercises about sexuality and truth, we did no longer want to show our skills or conclusion about our training, but to give the tools for people to pass through the same process.

-Cinema. I have been using cinema as inspiration for the last two years: montage, script, documenting and projection hall in my last work. The presence of those cinematic tools, with each piece increased, until the latest one, “Flat, not apartment” which is not just a stage but a projection hall.