Aurelia: Our dreams are a Second Life

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2007
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"Aurelia: Our dreams are a Second Life" is one of the videopoems by Belén Gache from the series "Lecturas" (Readings). Some of the videopoems of this series were proyected in the exhibition "El video como zona de cruce" ("Video as a Crossroad", in Centro Cultural de España, Montevideo, September 2007. In this videopoem the author walks around Second Life reading fragments of a text by Gérard de Nerval. She walks over the planets and walks through Paris streets. The reader listens to the author. She appears in the middle of the ocean accompanied by relaxing music and then suddenly she is in the middle of a disco surrounded by people dressed up as cybergoths. The video finished with the author walking over the Milky Way, this avatar of the author who is a reader at the same time does not pay attention to the places where she goes or the people she finds she is only interested in her reading.

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"Aurelia: Our dreams are a Second Life" es uno de los videopoemas de Belén Gache de la serie “Lecturas”. Algunos de estos videopoemas fueron proyectados en el marco de la muestra "El video como zona de cruce", Centro Cultural de España, Montevideo, septiembre de 2007. En "Aurelia: Our drems are a Second Life", la autora pasea a la deriva por Second Life, leyendo fragmentos del texto de Gérard de Nerval. Camina sobre los planetas, viaja a París, recorre las calles leyendo a Nerval. El lector escucha la voz de la autora. Viaja al fondo del mar, donde puede leer acompañada de una música tranquila. De pronto, aparece dentro de una discoteca llena de gente vestida de cibergóticos. Finaliza flotando encima de la vía láctea. El avatar de la autora que a la vez es lectora flota por encima de los planetas y sigue leyendo, permaneciendo indiferente a los lugares a los que va y a la gente a la que encuentra, interesada únicamente en su lectura.

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