B41R 

B41R is an ongoing audiovisual and sonic research project exploring tango beyond its traditional representations through field recording, video installation and experimental sound practices.

Developed between Buenos Aires and Berlin, the project investigates listening as a way of navigating urban space, focusing on the intersections between identity, migration, memory and counter-representation.

The project currently includes the audiovisual works Buenos 4ires and VA 2161, alongside the forthcoming field recordings soundtrack release of Buenos 4ires on the label Impulsive Habitat.

Buenos 4ires

Fixed media work
Single-channel video
Duration: 20 min.

Buenos 4ires is an audiovisual and sonic portrait of Buenos Aires, exploring the city through its relationship with tango beyond the stage.

Rather than presenting tango as a refined or fixed form, the project approaches it as a lived, evolving practice, embedded in everyday life, public space, and collective memory.

Through field recordings, interviews, live music, and spontaneous moments, the work unfolds as a fragmented collage: a partial, shifting image of the city where tango intersects with candombe, murga, and urban life.

Buenos 4ires features performances by Julián Peralta, Fer Bietti, Pablo Martínez, and showcases how diverse modes of being contribute to our perception of space. The result is both documentary and interpretation, an exploration of perception, space, and cultural identity.

VA 2161

Juan Pablo de Lucca (2023)
Single-channel video installation/screening
Duration: 18 min.

VA 2161 is a speculative sci-fi tango assemblage inhabited by fragmented voices, temporal dislocations and gestures suspended between tension and repose. Expanding the research initiated in Buenos 4IRES, the work moves toward a more abstract and poetic exploration of tango as a space of resistance, orientation and cultural instability.

Blending archival resonances, fictional atmospheres and choreographic fragments, the piece constructs an eerie counter-representation that challenges the colonial imaginaries historically projected onto tango. The work unfolds as a fragmented navigation system where memory, movement and sound continuously drift between recognition and estrangement.