Digital composition for cello and tape. Composer: Gonzalo Macías; Video: Ariadna Capasso and María Patricia Tinajero; Cello: Iracema de Andrade

Artists: Ariadna Capasso & María Patricia Tinajero (video), Gonzalo Macías (sound) and Edgardo Espinosa (cello). "Le départ" is meant to be experienced as a large video-projection in a concert with live cello. The video signals a breaking point, representing the moment of being forced to abandon home. It depicts an internal drama, which demands special attention from the listener and announcing that there is no return. It is an example of our collaborative work engaged with the social drama of forced migration.

Carry On strips the home to its most common denominator.  Our social structure is focused on the house, the center of family activity.   Home is the accumulation of personal traces and memories embodied in some treasured possessions.  Socially, the loss of a house signifies complete dispossession and disaffiliation from community ties.  Yet, does not the need for home extend beyond personal circumstances to encompass every human being?  Is it possible to contain the home in a suitcase, a bag or a shopping cart in the absence of a dwelling?  Does becoming houseless necessarily make us homeless? 

Performance by Ariadna Capasso and Patricia Tinajero. Done in Boulder and Denver, Colorado. Trade of Latin American flags for objects with passer-byes reflecting on the trade of gold for beads between Spanish colonists and Indigenous Peoples.