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Booking

Verbobala Spoken Video is available for booking at a variety of events and spaces, offering several existing shows. The group also accepts commissions.

    Presskit:
  • English, color. PDF.
  • Spanish, color. PDF.

      • Available shows / installations:
    • Theatrical performances:
      • Border Remixeado - view trailer
        A series of short pieces dealing with the Sonoran desert, Spanglish, immigration, Mexico and modern identity. 45 min.

      • Nobody Speaks - view trailer 1 2 3
        A site-specific theatrical piece following two principal characters: Nobody and Somebody. Presented in collaboration with Flam Chen physical theater company. 60min.

    • Sonidero Verbobala Soundsystem - view trailer
      A DJ/VJ project built on the traditions of the sonideros of Monterrey, Mexico and early Jamaican soundsystems, Verbobala can fill any space and any event with global rhythms from the underground. Drum 'n bass meets roots cumbia, Balkan horns blasting over dubstep, baile funk and field recordings from three continents; all punctuated by spanglish MC's. Any tempo, anytime: world music isn't a genre. It's what we sound like when the borders slip away, blowing through the barrio on the way to a danceparty at dawn, an afterparty, or an art opening.

    • Interactive video installations:
      • Barrio Linguistics - view trailer
        Barrio Linguistics is an exploration of nomadic Spanish found in the linguistic landscape of Spanish Harlem, New York City through interactive video installation. Makes use of photography, animation, poetry, video projection and electroacoutic audio to incite dialog about the role of language and advertising in contemporary society. The piece is an experimental documentary of the linguistics of south-north migration and the changing face of urban semiotics.

      • Muro Murmullos
        A recreation of the wall being built by the US Goverment along the US-Mexico border using interactive video. Coming soon

    • Commissions:
      Verbobala is a residency project. Separate from the shows that we've toured, Verbobala also creates site-specific installations that tell the stories of a particular place, elaborating on its people, history, and culture. To develop a coherent performance, we study the history of an area and research events that have happened on the grounds or in relation to it. We document and interview the people of this place, capturing their ideas in relation to the themes. Using our methods of deconstruction and remixing, we create a multi-media narrative that connects the space and its history to the spectators in a much more personal way.

    • Academic presentations / workshops:
      • DIY Media Theory
        Moisés Regla and Adam Cooper-Terán provide discourse on their creative processes regarding media de-construction, remix culture, international collaborations and the role of the video artist in contemporary culture. The 40-60 minute multimedia presentation provides insight into the “do-it-yourself” aesthetic and internet workflow consistently used by Verbobala Spoken Video to create their pieces, and will also allow ample time for Q&A.

      • Words Between Our Teeth
        A performance poetry workshop with Logan Phillips. If musicians practice playing their instruments, why shouldn’t poets practice playing their vocal chords? What does an opera singer know about training the voice that a poet doesn’t? How can performance reveal what hides between the lines of a written piece? Why is reading in front of a crowd seen as difficult? Nervousness and excitement are two different words for the same emotion. This workshop is for poets of all types, all styles and all experience levels. Bring your words: memorized or written down. Come for a relaxed exploration of linguistics, yoga, hip-hop and acting as they apply to poetry. Come learn to read like laughing. Come just for fun. Come expecting to surprise yourself.

      • International Underground Art Movements
        A 40 to 60 minute multimedia presentation by the members of Verbobala, which introduces students to contemporary art movements in Mexico and beyond. Presenting work from some of the most progressive international video, music and performance artists working today, the event gives insight into a world of art simmering just below the commercial surface. Further discussions include the merging of global artistic trends and the importance of cross-cultural exchanges through art. The presentation ends with a question and answer session.