11 JUNE 7:00 pm. Candela Capitán
In conversation with the exhibition Ría by Jorge Satorre.
Sound Cell is a performance by Candela Capitán that explores the female body as a territory of oppression through dance and two devices that condense traditional and contemporary forms of surveillance: the cowbell—used in livestock husbandry to locate the cattle—and the algorithm—the opaque engine organising visibility, desire and behaviour on digital platforms.
Sound Cell suggests a critical reflection on how these digital mechanisms—often viewed as tools of freedom or self-expression—reshape our relationships and condition the construction of sexuality and eroticism in virtual environments.
The performance space turns into a vast digital production farm, where the artist and spectators actively participate in generating content without being entirely aware of their role in the process. The soundtrack is composed in real time through the interaction between the sound of the cowbell and the audience’s engagement with the live broadcast.
CANDELA CAPITÁN (Seville, 1996) is an artist and choreographer whose practice lies at the intersection of performance, the live arts and digital languages. Her inquiry starts with the body as a critical device for analysing the mechanisms by which social bonds are constructed, as well as the dynamics of alienation, uprootedness and emotional emptiness which permeate contemporary societies, especially in hypermediated contexts.
Using an interdisciplinary approach, her works examine the relationships between body, object and collective image to articulate choreographies, installations and performance actions that shed light on the tensions between control, desire and representation. Her practice is marked by an insightful reflection on female sexuality, contemporary regimes of visibility and devices of desire. Via the strategic use of voyeurism and digital exhibition platforms, Capitán proposes a radical rethinking of the ways the body is displayed, regulated and consumed in the public and virtual space.