Bloqueo and the provocation machine

Abstract

Bloqueo (Rafael Spregelburd, 2006) is a play directed by Clara Marconato, which redefines the space of the reality through a structure of multiple perceptions. Unproductive actions, technical failures, breakable spaces and communication issues. They are all part of an environment that, even though it looks absurd, its logic tries to reflect a reality.
The construction of this reality comes from every character’s glance. The play gets set in a way in which none of these perceptions is true, but also the reality happens after a technical failure, which ends up giving sense to everything around.
A failure in the reality turns the play incomplete, motivating different perspectives to be part of a machinery where the Reality incites and attacks our own perception, making the difference.
But the mentioned failure does not mean that all glances will be the same. One of them turns the others on: This ideology returns a reflected and reverted glance, and asks ourselves: How much of what we are watching is really what we are currently seeing? How much of the invisible runs away? And how many closed eyes are there in the crowd watching?
This work proposes an analysis of the written script, where the praxis that one establishes over the other finally ends up questioning the limit between real, rational and absurd perceptions.