Condimentos
Salt and pepper nunca fallan, but
What happens when you add more seasonings to the right food?
What happens when you add more seasonings to the right food?
The exploration of how cultural exchange disrupts habits and enriches our ways of seeing and experiencing what´s around us.
Condimentos- Always add some flavor to enhance the existing flavors. We often navigate the world through habits and assumptions that feel natural but sometimes limit how we see and act. This started as a participatory performance involving individuals from diverse cultural contexts.
Using the metaphor of seasoning- adding flavor- to reveal how cultural exchanges can enhance, disrupt, and transform our shared experience.
This encounter has been disrupted and reconfigured into a generative form.
Role: Art direction for Performance. Editing with Touch Designer.
Project: Surroundings shape people. How does that translate into habits and assumptions?
To simulate this transformation, performance was translated into TouchDesigner, the traces were transformed into changing, flowing, generative visuals where shapes and forms emerge, dissolve, and reconstitute.
Experience becomes a pattern, and meaning arises once it is translated rather than once it is represented.
There is a threshold between familiarity and strangeness.