Photographs: María Meseguer, [S8] Mostra de Cinema Periférico, A Coruña 2021

Kicked with the Front Foot on the Dark Side of the Deck 2020—21 Performance—environment Duration: 60 mins. 16mm film, fabrics, cardboard, led lights, DJ set, prisms and torches, skateboards, spray, red carpet, white t-shirts, and other mixed media Developed and presented with Las de Cuenca and with local skaters: Tzuhan Hung, Toni Serrano, Paula Guerrero, Javi Montero, Bruno Delgado Ramo, Marta Feiner, dj K-sets, Ana Venceslá, Guillermo Grande, Itsaso Iribarren, Germán de la Riva and students of Faculty of Fine Arts, UCLM Presented: La escocesa, Barcelona (Dec 2020), Faculty of Fine Arts, Cuenca (Feb 2021), S8 Mostra de Cinema Periférico, A Coruña (June 2021), Ars Santa Mónica, Barcelona (Sept 2021) → Digital documentation

Kicked with the Front Foot on the Dark Side of the Deck is an expanded cinema performance that treats the cinematic event as a manifestation of energy, movement, bodily tensions and what I call "mutant installations". Taking the subculture and physical vocabulary of skateboarding as a conceptual starting point, the work explores the parallels between the “grind” of the board and the mechanical friction of the film strip passing through the projector. This project originated within the pedagogical context of my experimental film classes, emerging from a shared investigation into the mechanics of skateboarding and the spatial potentialities of the film apparatus. As explored in my theoretical research, Kicked operates through what I define as “gestures-montage” (gestos-montaje). Here, the editing does not occur on a timeline, but in the physical space through the artist’s actions. These gestures create “mutant installations” made of objects and light matter, where the cinematic emerges as a live event rather than being contained within a static display.