ESTELA SANTOS - BREAK TIME

Break time is an audio guide created to be listened to in urban public spaces. The piece presents a guided walk that attempts to modify each spectator’s perception of time, using audio, the city and the presence of the public to open up an individual and at the same time collective experience about our relationship with time. Based on physics studies and using tools of sensorial perception and imagination, Break time allows us to look at time from a subjective perspective and a poetic and collective conception of urban space.

Estela Santos explores ways of blurring the boundaries between the viewer and the maker. Her research looks at the symbiosis between artwork and spectator, as a bidirectional and intimate relationship, exploring subtle devices that combine listening and movement. Lately she has focused on projects that interact with urban public spaces, perceiving the latter as both interlocutor and a place of shared affection. These questions have been tended in the vicinity of artists such as Juan Domínguez, Alice Chauchat, Arantxa Martínez, Sabine Zahn, Roger Bernat and Jesús Nieto; and also through the Master on ‘Pensamiento y creación escénica contemporánea’ from the ESADCYL and the study group from the Sâlmon 2023 Festival.