PICHÓN BALDINU
Air, fire, water, earth
Argentinian artist and creator of a new artistic language, combining the four elements—air, fire, water, and earth; Pichón Baldinu is a director, stage designer, and aerial choreographer. He is the founder and director of avant-garde immersive theater companies such as De La Guarda and La Organización Negra, as well as the creator of shows like Hombre Vertiente. Baldinu has also served as aerial choreographer for Disney Theatrical’s Tarzan musical and as artistic director and designer for multiple TEDxRio de la Plata events.
His work has traveled across the United States, Europe, Asia, and various parts of the world.
“As an immersive theater artist, I have always played with viewing creation through the eyes and feet of an ordinary spectator. I have also explored perceiving their sensations, understanding their reactions and behaviors in response to different situations. This game of being the sole spectator of my creation, functioning as a contrast between my emotions and fantasies, has repeatedly immersed me in a theatrical space where movement and actions create dreamlike and visceral atmospheres. Here, the body becomes the essential tool for conveying this language, composed of particles of light and sound, rhythms and spasms, and the manipulation of the four elements.
This game of perspectives proposes a quantum space of action… something like throwing a stone from one reality and receiving it simultaneously from another… It opens thresholds of awareness, behavior, and provocation with a single goal: to move.
“I work with the perspective of a spectator as if I were the viewer of my own illusion… How would I want it to look? How would it behave? What emotions would I want it to evoke? What would I wish to experience physically as its spectator? I then realize that all this has a single goal… to move me.
More of what we’ve doneI have always played this role… like firing a bullet from one side and receiving it in the body of the other. This projection of myself into a quantum space allows a ghostly idea to gradually take shape, bringing from the beyond to the here and now… and even in this real ‘here,’ it becomes more of a blurred version of what was initially conceived, only becoming defined through repeated attempts until its character is established, its contour marked, and its essence, being, and purpose determined.” – Pichón Baldinu