SPIRITUAL BOYFRIENDS
A solo performance which revolves around yoga as a new form of self-discipline and biopower. Núria Guiu ironically approaches the practice through a visual iconography that creates a bridge between the Indian masters of the late 19th century, contemporary YouTubers, and the Holi festivals. Spirituality becomes flesh and the immaterial is replaced by the virtual; the internet as a new deity which observes from above.
LIKES
Likes bases itself on the analysis of two popular Youtube phenomena: cover dance tutorials and videos on the different techniques of yoga which have emerged and spread massively through social networks during the recent years. The artist approaches the audience from a socio-anthropological perspective with a speech about the social value of a “like” in our digital culture and society. The piece is a fresh and choreographic look at the presence of the body in the digital age.
FUTURALGIA (MOVIE)
Futuralgia is a comission work for Unusual Symptoms, Theater Bremen. After a performance created and presented during the period of pandemia 2020-21, a movie based on footage from the real creation process during pandemia context merged with fictional footage, premiered in Spring 2023 in Bremen.