{"id":9815,"date":"2023-07-13T08:46:16","date_gmt":"2023-07-13T06:46:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kingkong-mag.com\/?p=9815"},"modified":"2023-07-28T13:29:23","modified_gmt":"2023-07-28T11:29:23","slug":"rocio-berenguer-an-indisciplinary-artist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kingkong-mag.com\/en\/rocio-berenguer-an-indisciplinary-artist\/","title":{"rendered":"Rocio Berenguer, an indisciplinary artist"},"content":{"rendered":"

\r\nOften disconcerting, Rocio Berenguer\u2019s shows explore the theme of the living world. Mixing dance, digital devices, theatre and writing, Rocio Berenguer is simultaneously a multifaceted and rebellious author. A portrait of this \u2018indisciplinary\u2019 artist.\r\n<\/p>\n\n\n

Rocio Berenguer\u2019s work projects the issues of our contemporary world \u2013 the development of spaces of individual freedom, the role of technologies in our daily lives, the ecological urgency \u2013 into hypothetical futures. In her most recent show, THEBADWEEDS<\/a>, created in 2023, Rocio Berenguer imagines a half-human, half-plant music band. On the stage, bizarre green and shaggy-haired creatures sing, slam and dance in a trans-species world. The bodies of these beings are covered in vegetation and are nourished by means of a kind of photosynthesis whose energy source is the sun. That in itself offers an idea of the free and off-the-wall spirit of the Spanish artist. \u2018THEBADWEEDS is a punk show. In it I stand by my humour and joy. For this performance, I wanted to reach out to a very wide audience from every type of background\u2026 I mixed several languages (Editor\u2019s note: English, French, Spanish) for the most inclusive message possible,\u2019 explains Rocio Berenguer, who conceives her works in her Paris studio or in different partner laboratories. \u2018I adore working on multiple collaborations with specialists and scientists. I have the good fortune that they frequently respond to my questions. They are extremely generous people who offer me a part of their time, their knowledge. It is one of the aspects of my profession I prefer. Then, with the accumulation of knowledge, I attempt to create my own viewpoint on things. The aim is to construct a form which is as expressive as possible.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The body, the city, the living world\u2026<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Whilst this claim is pregnant, it is because the theme the artist explores, that of the living world and its corollaries, lends itself very well to it. For around ten years or so, the artist has probed the notions of the body, nature and the city. \u2018We live in a culture which dissociates object and subject. Worse still, the living world tends to become an object to be exploited. How pretentious to believe the human being is the most evolved life form on Earth. Our environment has urbanised, it has become sterile. I believe that we need to urgently question our relationship with the world.\u2019 And the way Rocio Berenguer has chosen to interrogate us is to adopt a prospective vision. Possible futures, desirable or otherwise. \u2018Offering a glimpse of the future gives people a sense of responsibility concerning the actions they take today. The prospective is a very powerful lever of emancipation.\u2019 To carry this out, the artist has no hesitation in taking advantage of and hijacking technologies such as the conversational agents (chatbots) that are to be found in several of her shows and installations. \u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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