Storytelling through body movement.

The piece conceptually uses the link between word and image, movement of human and non-human bodies, and the cultural information contained in the Borgia's Codex, to articulate another method of storytelling and writing -a counter-writing, actually. During this process, we observe a new kind of mythical writing dynamic evolving within the techno-mythical scenario of the work: the narration of a cosmogonic episode, the implementation of a projection and a motion capture system, and the gestural behavior of a robot linked to the activity of the public.

The Myth.

In the myth, the luminous and sonorous murmur of the god Quetzalcóatl tears apart the darkness and the primordial silence while rising from the underworld after having stolen the sacred bones that contain a life-giving material. During its ascent, it blows inside a snail and produces a sound that acquires the spiral shape of its instrument, simultaneously generating the first cultural configuration of the sound and the first formal graphic representation of the word: the voluta. An element that formalizes the link between verbal expression and image.

Writing as destruction.

Quetzalcoatl-bot’s serpentine activity acts as a writing method dynamically motivated by the viewer's circulation around the technical-symbolic system of the work. This movement becomes a dialogue framework between life forms to display and exchange signs that potentially can transform space. OEtymologically, writing imposes a form, forces linearity and produces a regime of (in)formation on objects and materials. However,in this work, the surface is not passive against the destructive gesture of writing and creates a counter-writing.