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Echo Graph

Literal Litoral video work

Though physical failure here is defined by others, namely, a medical face, the vocal delivery and choreographic score question its validity. In Echo Graph, the body transmits the layers of subversion hidden in the work’s written text to create a rich strata of complementary and contradictory meanings, as often happens in everyday exchanges.

Recorded via motion-capture technology, this new work continues Caballero’s explorations of how physical movement can translate the spoken-word, using body language to unleash the vital, guttural essence of communication.

Writes Ríos: “In Echo Graph’s mini film, the poem escapes the page. It pulses through motion-captured choreography, where Caballero’s body inverts hierarchies and echoes the interoperability of digital languages, 0’s and 1’s, full and empty, on and off. Recorded via cutting-edge technology, her gestures translate spoken word into visceral movement, the digital rendering a mirror for the contradictions of human communication. The video’s layers—voice, motion, pixel—ask us to reconsider where poetry resides. Is it in the trembling of a limb, the flicker of a screen, the silence between syllables or, perhaps, it inhabits all of them at once? Caballero’s work suggests all and none, proposing that poetry’s essence lies in its refusal to be pinned down.”