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.