SUNDAY 8 FEBRUARY, 6.30 pm
Performative lecture. Premiere in Madrid. 52 min.
Whatever you choose to do, you're the protagonist. This is one of the premises of P.O.V. (or “point of view”), a recurring meme that has accustomed us to performing different perspectives, putting ourselves in someone else’s shoes. Using a visual archive that explores hysteria (historically attributed to women), mythology and pop culture references, the proposal is presented as a space for experimentation where positions, images and words clash, are tensed and overflow. The piece examines the mechanisms through which bodies are classified and performed: how a gesture becomes an image, how an image is transformed into a caption, how a caption crystallises an identity. In this process, visibility is not neutral but constructs stories, hierarchies and forms of perception that condition the way in which we look at each other and how we ourselves are looked at.
For the soundtrack of this piece, Núria has collaborated with the music producer Uge Pañeda, aka OKKRE.
Núria Guiu Sagarra is a dancer and choreographer based in Barcelona. Her artistic practice explores the relationship between bodies, images and power dynamics from a personal, sociocultural and speculative perspective. Her works investigate the complexities of contemporary culture through an anthropological lens, especially those related to digital environments, memory and emotions. Her creations extend to movement, writing and teaching practices derived from these, and include titles such as as Medium (2022), Cyberexorcisme (2022), Spiritual Boyfriends (2020), Supermedium (2024) and Likes (2018). In 2025 she participated in the Europalia programme with The Sleep of Reason inspired by Goya’s Disparates and Caprichos.
Credits:
Direction, choreography and performance: Núria Guiu Sagarra
Artistic support: Esther Freixa i Ràfols
Music: Uge Pañeda (Okkre)
Technical assistance: Adrià Juan
Production: Elclimamola with the support of the Cultural Department of the Regional Government of Catalonia
Co-produced with: Festival Grec, Centre de Creació La Caldera Les Corts, Centre de les Arts Lliures de la Fundació Joan Brossa
Residency project at: Centro de Cultura Contemporánea Conde Duque (Madrid), Roca Umbert – Fábrica de las Artes (Granollers) with a cross-residency at Graner in Barcelona, Festival Santarcangelo, Cra’p (Mollet del Vallès), La Caldera Les Corts, Fabra i Coats and El Canal (Centro de Creación de Artes Escénicas de Salt, Girona)