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About the project

“electrotango AUDIOVISUAL” is thought to be an experimental, collaborative video-and-sound performance about and within Electrotango. It aims to show the way of a person from stepping into Tango scene for the first times until finding her own voice through the experiences, learnings, abilities, and possibilities the Tango gave her. The story is divided into chapters of which each one is based on a song or perspective of a participating artist. We try to tell the whole story through moments and anecdotes from the scene: unique, deep, personal, or fun, to show (Electro)Tango from an insider’s perspective and challenge some common stereotypes. That could be stories like this: “Diego’s beer bottle”…

… or topics like these ones we are currently working on: Tango as „universo diferente“, the power of the artist’s voice, how war and violence in the world influences everyone of us, and the decision-making processes that define our way in the scene.

Like this, each video tells its own story and, within a larger context, together they form an intimate and relatable portrait of human beings in an artistic niche such as (Electro)Tango.

My goal is to launch an interdisciplinary artistic Electrotango performance format that thrives through collaborations with other artists working in the Electrotango scene or who are curious about it. The structure of “electrotango AUDIOVISUAL” is inspired by music albums, which is expanded with a visual layer: videos, sounds, and songs created to be performed on stage, watched, and listened to. Video is understood as an instrument in the band.

I will mainly create the video performances for the project, maybe together with others, and take care of the planning and structure (yes, like the Swiss cliché, I enjoy detailed organisation 😉).

I see “electrotango AUDIOVISUAL” as a collection of audiovisual pieces with different possibilities and formats of presentation. It should remain open and adaptable to new ideas and collaborations. One fixed event is the NeoTango-Nights 2027 in Zürich, where it will be performed, whatever form it may take by then.

Here you can get a first impression of how it could look: https://byyara.art/live-performance-y-vos-tan-vos/.

Schedule

• July, August, September: collecting ideas, conception
• October, November, December: realisation, first version finished
• January, February: finalization (with me in Buenos Aires)
• March, April: developments to bring it on stage (mainly my work)
• May: presentation at NeoTango-Nights Zürich
• Further: hopefully more places to play it

Future perspectives

My long-term goal is to create a flexible format for audiovisual performance in Electrotango, as the available performance spaces and participating people are always different. I aim to develop a concept that can be adapted to the artists and conditions available for each performance, perhaps even independently of me.

Through the strong focus on collaboration in “electrotango AUDIOVISUAL”, I also see the possibility of creating a community and network platform for and about Electrotango artists and organizers that grows out of the project. This could, for example, be used to announce tours, discover new artists, or look for collaboration and support. From the perspective of a European organizer, such a platform would make life easier. This idea is based on the strong conviction that working with each other instead of competing with each other will help both individual artists and the whole scene move forward.

If you now think I’m a little too ambitious, I’d say yes, that’s definitely possible. But there is one thing I know about making things happen: if there is no vision, things will never come into being.