Luisa Pardo und Gabino Rodríguez

A Non-academic Lecture. As Part Of »lola Arias: My Documents«

MY DOCUMENTS is a programme of lecture performances, where artists from different backgrounds present personal research, a radical experience, a story that secretly obsessed them. For MY DOCUMENTS, Lola Arias invited several artists, from dance, documentary film, installation and performance and theatre to delve into their personal archives.

In this new digital version, the artists will be virtually there, in their new domestic stage, showing their archive on a shared screen with the audience.The audience can see the performance live, make comments and exchange visions and insights afterwards. In times of Corona, let’s infect ourselves with ideas, stories and knowledge. Let’s share our screens for debate, love and social encounters!

In LÁZARO, the Mexican theater company Lagartijas Tiradas al Sol reconstructs the story of an actor who decides to change his face and name and become someone else. Ever since he started playing characters for films and plays, being someone else had been his job. But, unlike previous times, this time it would be forever. Luisa Pardo and Lázaro Gabino Rodríguez analyze the archive of the films and personal photos of Lázaro asking themselves: What makes me be myself and not someone else? How do we become another? is it really possible?