Performance
Patlani Collective - Oscar Ocelotl & Jesus Mora
Warming Warning presented at Offthemap Gallery
Performing as a futuristic commentator, one of the artists informs the audience on the worries and fears of global warming, while the other performer moves in a world of collaged visual projections.
Patlani Collective. (Oscar Ocelotl , Jesus Mora)
Patlani Collective was created in 2007 by Oscar Ocelotl Aguirre and Jesus Mora, both artists originally from Mexico and living now in Canada, in different cities, respectively, Montreal and Toronto. The artists are involve in projects that depicts their different paths to travel in this life. The freedom of the space and the imagination flying is the motivation of the collective to create and express contemporary concerns. Patlani means fly in Nahuatl, the language of the ancestors from the Aztec empire situated in Mexico Tenochtitlan, Mexico City.
For more explanation on the images please see below, (or see at the end of each featured artist)
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Image 1 and 2: These images show one of the performer on stage, dressed on a white overall, immerse in a projection of clouds, rain and of the map of the world, pointing to a gigantic image of the sun
Image 3: The white figure of the performer, disappears behind the projection of large drops of rains. Image 4: The images shows one of the performers on stage, dressed on a white overall, walking in the opposite direction of a white polar Bear.