Presentation of the video essay by Olga Mesa, in conversation with Luz Mar González-Arias and Karin Ohlenschläger

How to generate proximity and affection in times of social distancing? How to open space and mind, being physically confined? How to nourish imaginaries, expand bodies and glimpse horizons with closed doors and open screens?

The presentation of the video-essay A table of its own by Olga Mesa in interaction with Marián Suárez, will lead to a three-way conversation – the author, the doctor in philology Luz Mar González-Arias and the director of LABoral Karin Ohlenschläger – to reflect on the work of a poet and a choreographer, mother and daughter, both multifaceted and transversal women in their creations and thoughts.

The conversation will focus on the interdisciplinary nature of Olga Mesa’s videographic work in dialogue with the multidisciplinary artist Francisco Ruiz de Infante and the poem Siglo XXI by Marián Suárez; about suspended times and expanded spaces, about words that dance and bodies that become verse, about distance and proximity, co-creation, affection and care. But also about the fact of interweaving experiences and knowledge, generating fields of resonance between The Own Table and the work of Virginia Woolf or between the autobiographies of Isadora Duncan (My Life, 1929) and Elia Kazan (Una Vida, 1989). Intertwined dialogues between non-visible presences, imagined spaces and future memories on the surface.

“The gaze and the space. The gaze is what makes the empty space between two bodies disappear. I am looking for a space that requires the body to conquer reality. A space to share. A space in which architecture is the basis of thought. A space in which the body formulates and makes emerge a dramaturgy of intentions, desires and visibilities. I am looking for a space that is an invisible exoskeleton of its perceptions. This space will not exist only to affirm visual and aesthetic compositions. Nor will it exist only to feed our ego and surprising personalities, it will exist rather “intentionally” so that the fragility and questioning of the body exposed to the world are permanent energies. Let us practice in this space the experience of future relationships and future narrative behaviors: operating body, imaginary body, body necessary.”
(Olga Mesa, 2016)

You can see the meeting at this link[+]