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Laura Colmenares Guerra

Laura Colmenares Guerra is a visual artist interested in the creation of environments that activate the relationship of the participants with their own body, generating mediation between the human body and the way it is perceived. Her work relates to the politics of the body, the matter of body perception and the engagement of the spectator with the art piece.

Contact :
place Maurice Van Meenen, 34
1060 Bruxelles
+32(0)486 62 42 73
Territoires Instables with Yannick Antoine

This installation is inspired by Pollen, a dreamlike, cyberpunk novel by Jeff Noon. It’s also inspired by the work of geographers F. Ramírez and F. Osorio. Their study, centred in a specific region of Colombia, ‘ Magdalena Medio ’, shows how armed conflict and forced occupation influences the (re)construction of territories. The act of walking in Unstable Territories implies the desire to pierce and irrigate the video landscape. A generative biological circulation system has been designed, taking into account human blood distribution network parameters. Unstable Territories creates a dialog between these axes, blurring the border between the physical body and the geophysical territory.

type of project : Installation
year of design / production : 2009 /
state of progress : In progress
diffusions : iMAL, 2010 ()
production team-realization : coproduction : iMAL dans le cadre de Virage – Plate-forme de recherche pour l’étude et le développement des nouvelles interfaces de contrôle et d’écriture | financé par : l’Agence Nationale de la Recherche (France)
copyright : Laura Colmenares; Yannick Antoine
support (s) of the FWB : Grant for design in 2009
© Laura Colmenares; Yannick Antoine © Laura Colmenares; Yannick Antoine
© Laura Colmenares; Yannick Antoine © Laura Colmenares; Yannick Antoine
Lungs [the breather] with Todor Todoroff & Yacine Sebti

This interactive installation explores involuntary bodily processes brought into consciousness through the experience of the piece. By amplifying and intensifying the unconscious body process of breathing, it aims to generate a conscious movement towards the question of body perception. The physical set-up consists of a platform containing a ‘pool ’ filled with white liquid paint that is used as a video projection screen. On top of the platform there are 4 rocks used as seats. Four breathing masks equipped with microphones and connected to air pressure sensors monitor the breathing of the participants. Each participant is assigned with jellyfishes that follow the breather’s pace, receiving feedback from their own breathing process, as well as from the people they are connected too.

type of project : Installation
year of design / production : 2008 /
state of progress : Finished
diffusions : Nadine, 2008 (Bruxelles – Belgique) ; Ping' Festival, 2008 (Mallorca – Espagne) ; Crea Numérica, 2009 (Beyrouth – Liban) ; Sint -Lukasgalerie, 2010 (Bruxelles – Belgique) ; CitySonic Festival, 2010 (Mons – Belgique)
production team-realization : production : Vlaamse Overheid | coproduction : La Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles ; Nadine ; ARTeM
copyright : Laura Colmenares ; Todor Todoroff
support (s) of the FWB : Grant for promotion in 2009
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eVanescens with Todor Todoroff

type of project : Performance
state of progress : Finished
diffusions : Journées d'Informatique Musicales, 2012 (Mons-Belgique) ; Le Cube, 2012 (Issy-les-Moulineaux - France) ; Festival Ars Musica, 2013 (Les Brigittines - Bruxelles)
production team-realization : Todor Todoroff, composition, capteurs et interactions sonores. Laura Colmenares Guerra, création et interactions vidéo. Sigrid Vandenbogaerde, création violoncelle, voix. Marc Lhommel et Julie Petit-Etienne, création et régie lumière. Anne Guilleray, scénographie, costume. Yacine Sebti, programmation logiciel vidéo. Lise Vachon, Marcela Ruiz Quintero, danse
copyright : Todor Todoroff et Laura Colmenares Guerra
support (s) of the FWB : Grant for production in 2011
© Benjamin Picart
© Sergine Laloux
© Kristina Ianachkova
© Sergine Laloux
© Isabelle Franc