The discourse or thinking that the piece aims to introduce through the body and words focuses specifically on the physically present work of performers and artists when they are on-stage, reasoning and acting on the idea that we do not have or cannot share our contemporary present but that instead we share an extemporaneous reality.
This work seeks to generate a kind of choreographic context in which the fictional figures of the performers are used to introduce the spectator to a series of paradoxes that accompany or define the artistic act itself: the difficulty of a profession, the artist's creative isolation, the meaning of the stage, the idea of reproduction, the simplicity or complexity of constructing with movement, whether or not it is faithful to reality...
Tengo un problema contemporáneo poses a speculative body and discourse which explains what this piece is, and based on the possibilities and impossibilities of bringing it to fruition, it speaks about its cultural present, the fact that there is a contemporary problem because it understands that what it is doing is not contemporary art but rather its outcome. This extemporaneousness, this place outside place, is the idea and sphere of action where performers sustain the impossibility of escaping from history because what they are doing is also history.
Supported by Institut de Cultura de Barcelona (Barcelona Crea grants), Departament de Cultura de la Generalitat de Catalunya OSIC (Recerca i Innovació grants), La Caldera, La Bonne and La Poderosa.
Residences: La Caldera 2023 (Barcelona) and Leal.Lab (Tenerife).
In collaboration with Antic Teatre and La Poderosa.
Directed by: Carmelo Salazar. Authorship and performing: Bea Fernández, Carmelo Salazar. Text: Carmelo Salazar. Músic: Glenn Martens, his own musical construction. Lighting: Conrado Parodi.
