Diaporamas is an audiovisual performance inspired by expanded cinema aesthetics. Through a setup of photo film, slides, slide projectors, dissolve units, photo camera filters, audio tapes, electronic instruments and processors, Juan Orozco puts emphasis on recovering the analogue link. Most of the machines Juan uses were not intended for the way they are put to work in the project, and linking them requires DIY devices to ensure their compatibility. All machines are set up on a purpose built structure which enables the artist to access them manually. 
As with his other projects, the selection of the technology that he uses and works with reflects Juan’s critical understanding of how technology affects the way we produce and consume art. This concerns not only the result itself, but also the process of doing art and, within this context, what we consider to be new-useful or old-obsolete technology.
In this version of Diaporamas, Juan works visually mainly with a selection of Jose Pepe Fernandez Balado’s photo archive. Pepe, who was a friend of Juan’s, was an Argentinean photographer who passed away in 2007 and left a vast analogue photographic archive. Accessing Pepe’s archive Juan followed Pepe (and his path) trough 30 years of photography: abstract and organic black and white photos where the human being never shows up. Being asked where was the man is in his work, Pepe liked to answer “behind the camera”. His photos are not pre-produced outdoor shoots that required many hours of walking, an attentive look as well as a trained eye. This is what Juan finds the most performative and body present characteristics of Pepe’s work, and also of his own.
Juan spent more than a year working in the photo laboratory at Kunstquartier Bethanien, Berlin. He selected and transformed about a hundred of Pepe’s photos in order to be able to project and work with them, and also experimented with pre-camera chemigrams and collages which he also uses in his performance.