Juan Pablo Cámara: Homopticum

In Homopticum the performer and choreographer Juan Pablo Cámara, in dialogue with visual Artist Andrey Bogush, explores gazing as a practice of attention and a possible site of agency. In a world shaped by surveillance capitalism—where attention is not only manipulated but actively constructed through market logics—the work invites the audience to slow down and observe with intention.At the center of the stage lies the question: how does seeing take form?

The theater becomes a domestic space of sorts, inhabited by an augmented being—feral, anthropoid, machinic. Online and offline interfaces perform as both backdrops and foredrops, framing a dance that exceeds the flesh. Moving between watching and being watched, across the mundane and spectacular, the body remains exposed, revealing fragility, monstrosity and excess. 

Homopticum lays bare the psychological realities of a contemporary condition: bodily autonomy is increasingly compromised. By way of immersive contemplation, the work cultivates a state of heightened awareness, reclaiming attention as a vital tool for sensing, knowing and resisting

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