

From 2011 till 2015 the audiovisual experimental duo Taurus (Juan Orozco and Diego Stickar) experimented and explored the link between image and sound in real time. During these years, the search for their own original aesthetic led them to focus the project on different audio-visual practices and technologies. They focused essentially on pre-digital technology, and used video cameras, televisions, strobes, everyday objects, DIY electronic circuits, processors, video and mixers. Their improvisational performances developed a nonlinear, a-chronological, non-sequenced, and essentially analogue fashion: organic, living, real and continuously changing, trying to create audio-visual systems that work according to their own logic, including errors, defects, variations, options and chaos. Their performances were conceived as live movies (expanded cinema), bodies that operate machines, manipulate objects, and generate a mix between what happens in a specific physical — as well as extended — plane (projected/audible). As part of the creative process, Taurus utilized masks and costumes to create a hybrid identity — half human, half animal. The Duo perfomed in different venues in Argentina, Spain, Holland and Germany. In 2013, Taurus released their first DVD-R: Discovisual I with the purpose of creating a register of the different stages of labor. And in 2015 Taurus released Discovisual II, a DVD that captures one of the two performances which was held on August 14th and 15th, 2015 at TAE, Teatro Argentino, La Plata, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

