UN ATARDECER EN SATURNO (2021) 

During 2020, due to the lockdown caused by the health crisis, we were able to radically observe the impact of mediation on our lives. A series of behaviors, habitual protocols, and customs were restricted. Coexistence with those outside our nuclear family was mediated through screens. Those same screens were windows to reality, to the outside world, and to the social situation. The tension between the credibility of the measures adopted to confront the health crisis and uncertainty wreaked havoc on our bodies. Restrictions, anxiety, fear, and hasty changes in the measures to be adopted to protect ourselves generated feelings of frustration and anxiety: what should I believe? Who should I believe? Is what I'm seeing real? These questions that arose in this context led us, as artists, to ponder the relationship between truth and mediation and its symptoms in our bodies. 

Un atardecer en Saturno (A sunset on Saturn) proposes playing with strangeness to bring a critical perspective to our reality and question what we understand by "real." Social media makes it easy to voice our opinions, but it doesn't necessarily provide the time for thoughtful elaboration of what is to be said, nor its consequences, nor does it offer spaces for receptive listening. We read and listen to phrases, dogmas, and quotes without truly understanding where they come from and what questions they are trying to answer.

In this void, Suely Rolnik's phrase is provocative: "To attribute meaning to the meaninglessness of the state of subjectivity, desire will make its connections and cuts at points in the discursive products offered by the dealers of recipes for a redeeming peace." Everyone will create their truths based on the point chosen within a discursive product.
A sunset on Saturn, with a touch of humor, develops a climate of strangeness, which attributes desire to another (who may represent the system, authority, that which I am at the mercy of), questions the sources of truth, and revives the need to reconstruct a new order of things, as well as the need to deal with uncertainty.
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Concept and choreography:

     Cristina Velarde

Producer: 

     Paola Alcántara

Created and performed with: 

     Silvana Palomino, Christian Olivares, Miguel García Llorens, Cristina Velarde

Original music:

     Ulises Quiroz

Visual artist:

     Camila Valdeavellano

Photography:

     Paul Mayca

Co-produced by Alianza Francesa de Lima