—Suite Rivolta. An Aesthetic Proposal for Action, 2011

HD Video, colour, sound, 13’

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Two dancers perform a composition of three movements whose music is a text, a narrative that refers to the need to take action in the streets in order to preserve public space as a place of dissent. The title of the project derives from the radical feminist movement of the 1970's known as Rivolta Femminile (led by Italian art critic and theorist Carla Lonzi), and presents a structure loosely based on the musical form known as 'suite'. A voiceover guides the narrative, introducing performative elements, acts and gestures that stem from the street protests and the aesthetics of the revolutionary. The action mixes contemporary and Spanish dance, therefore relating expressive tools that come from different cultural traditions, dislocating them in search of any connection that can help produce collaborative action.
The film was entirely shot in the space of Galería Elba Benítez in Madrid, recurring, as in previous works, to placing the audience on the same scenario that was the filming set, and breaking spectatorship conventions and cinematic narratives. During its first public presentation, the work was shown in three parts, adding one new movement to the film in exhibition every week, in clear reference to Felix Gonzalez-Torres Every Week There Is Something Different, presented 20 years before at Andrea Rosen Gallery in New York.