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pepo & tom

Our aesthetic references come from pop, cinema and conceptual art. In our work there is a particular insistence on artistic expressions that appeared at a certain moment as something new, either because of their recent innovation or because of their decline: proto-TV, the first explorations of YouTuber culture, blogs, old technologies, the first raves, etc...

They were a resident project within the annual program of site-specific co-productions at Tecnopolis in 2023 and received the creation grant from the Fondo Nacional de las Artes in 2021 with Paraiso Fiscal.

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× SHHHH! at La Pulperia Mutualica

This work was conceived in the post-pandemic context that emerged after the spread of the SARS-CoV-2 virus. La Pulpería Mutualica was a space created with the aim of thinking about how we would organize ways of being together in the city of Buenos Aires. This was the first work presented there. At the time, making noise was impossible, so we invited anyone who wanted to come and share a moment of silence. This meant not being able to speak before, during or after the show. Our piece consisted of a chain of gags, games and choreographies performed in silence, brushing against mime, inhabiting satire, as frustrated clowns.

La Pulperia Mutualica, Buenos Aires 2021-2022

CASo flyer featuring Pepo and Tom ×

Pepo & Tom, anchored in listening and the absence of words, walk around the Costanera Sur Ecological Reserve in the city of Buenos Aires.

In search of the river and of what manages to escape silence, shared gestures emerge along the way through the language of noises. Sound and performative ecologies are composed as a substrate for imprinting new meanings and imaginaries onto the mountains of rubble. Thus, an aural perception of inhabited spaces, their reverberations and their shared habitabilities gives rise to synesthetic sensations that place the relationship between space and time under question.

Radio CASo, Buenos Aires 2021

× iUNIVERSAL EMOUSHHHON at Tecnopolis

As a result of the Dance Program Residency at Tecnopolis, Pepo & Tom premiered iUNIVERSAL EMOUSHHHON. A work that experiments with the non-place, with the aim of moving through different contexts by creating performative expressions, sharing pre-recorded sounds, and changing clothes. This non-place was built from the exposure of an endless green. One day the program director told us: The endless green is Tecnopolis. An empty space that can contain whatever you want to do, as long as you bring the energy necessary to sustain it. Perhaps this was the greatest challenge for Pepo & Tom in this work: sustaining the exposure of the intimacy of their bond: letting the scene take over and accepting that when creating, sometimes it is better to lose (rather than win).

Danza en Tecnopolis Festival, Buenos Aires 2023

× La Golden Hour

Paraiso Fiscal pres. La Golden Hour

As part of the Paraiso Fiscal collective, we were invited to take part in the Public Program for Performance - ArteBa, Buenos Aires 2021, curated by Diego Bianchi. We presented La Golden Hour, a durational performance that entered into dialogue with archival material from mass rave culture at the turn of the millennium in Argentina, with the emergence of the mythical parties at Pacha nightclub and the first Creamfields. This research was awarded a creation grant from the Fondo Nacional de las Artes.

Public Program for Performance - ArteBa, Buenos Aires 2021, curated by Diego Bianchi

× Sombra viva @ Recoletazo

In an invitation to invoke the Siluetazo (1983), an aesthetic-political action that managed to symbolize the disappearance and demand for the return alive of thousands of people disappeared during the last military dictatorship, curated collectively by Carla Barbero, Javier Villa and Guille Mongan, we created a shadow theater at Centro Cultural Recoleta. A sequence of metaphorical images as an exercise in rereading narratives and imaginaries of institutional violence and oppressed everyday life.

Recoletazo - Centro Cultural Recoleta, Buenos Aires 2026

× Iteration nº3

Presented as part of Plataforma DoceVeinticuatro at Centro Cultural Konex, and previously as a work in progress at Festival Farofa do Processo (São Paulo, Brazil) and at Nos En Vera (Buenos Aires), the work is composed through choreographic procedures and soundscapes within an architecture for six speakers. An exploration of spiraling time, mimetic communication and shared presence.

Plataforma DoceVeinticuatro - Centro Cultural Konex, 2025

× iteration nº4: tachaduras

Within Fundación Cazadores' Instalar Danza program in Buenos Aires, we created a staging based on time and communication, at the margins of spoken language, where primary emotions and affects emerge and anticipate what we share as humanity. Brushing against the roughness of braided cotton, trafficking a secret among plastic hairs, they wander through a network of empty spaces that is nothing more than the excess of the possible. Between failure and disappointment, they reveal a complicity that extends through an apparently endless present, in an inconsequential time that piles up like garbage. A sketch of crossed-out and overwritten images and fictions. In the name of faith, disposable consumption and melancholy for the future.

Instalar Danza - Fundación Cazadores, Buenos Aires 2026

× MVM workshop at Roseti 2022

Each exercise is a practice in itself, but from our perspective they all relate to the same question: How do we transform intentions into relationships? For us, working in performance means working among question marks, constantly testing knowledge and experiences and trying to move as far as possible away from finished conceptions of the world. The workshop aimed to share this sensitivity, this way of approaching practice, but above all it sought to compose together these ways of approaching, waiting, acting and composing.

Espacio Roseti, Buenos Aires 2022

× Nou Taim Coreografis Nos en Vera 2024

In this workshop we set out to share some of what we had been researching in *Nou taim coreografis*, the residency we did at the beginning of the year at Nos en Vera. We thought of this encounter as an opportunity to open our conversation through a series of exercises in which we collectively addressed the movement of agreements and disagreements that shape forms. From simple instructions, we gradually complicated the ways bodies arrange and rearrange themselves in space. When is it necessary to stop? What forms of cooperation are needed to build a composition? ¿Jau dip is iour lov?

Nos en Vera, Buenos Aires 2024

× UNIDXS & ORGANIZADXS at Galpon de Guevara 2025

As part of the 6th edition of Plataforma Doce Veinticuatro, we were invited to lead a workshop to share some questions, procedures and tests that helped us compose the universe of Iteration No. 3, taking the opportunity to rethink and continue rebuilding a proposal with the challenge of being more than two. To highlight the subtle and messy details that allow us to build a movement in which differences communicate a way of being together. *Flyer design: Juso Mor

Galpón de Guevara, Buenos Aires 2025

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CASo flyer featuring Pepo and Tom ×

In 2022, in response to a commission from the Centro de Arte Sonoro at Casa Nacional del Bicentenario, Pepo & Tom developed “SHHHH! Silent Walks” (2022). A radio piece composed of four sound maps that, from an aural perspective, question the impossibility of accessing the river in the city of Buenos Aires, a coastal city built with its back to the river.

Radio CASo, Buenos Aires 2021

SHHHH! site-specific research at Tecnopolis ×

In 2023 they took part in the annual residency of the Danza en Tecnopolis program, a state-run thematic park that hosts the largest art, science and technology exhibition in Latin America. As a result of this site-specific research, they presented "iUNIVERSAL EMOUSHHHON" (2023)

Danza en Tecnopolis Site-specific Co-productions Program - Tecnopolis, Buenos Aires 2023

× Pepo and Tom present Nou Taim Coreografis residency at Nos en Vera

During the Nou Taim Coreografis residency, we set out to update the questions that make the heart of our performance work beat. How do I engage in dialogue with the other's intention? What state allows us to receive their proposal? Is there resistance this time? How far can I surrender to the event?

Nos en Vera, Buenos Aires 2024

× Pepo and Tom present Iteration nº4: tachaduras residency at Fundación Cazadores

As part of Fundación Cazadores' Instalar Danza 2026 residency program, curated by Barbara Hang, we were invited to continue our series of investigations around time, communication and the edges of language. Through images that oscillate between the tangible and the elusive, we explore primary affects and shared states, in a becoming of actions where the minimal and the failed open new possibilities of meaning.

Instalar Danza - Fundación Cazadores, Buenos Aires 2026

× Juliana Gattas at LollaPalooza 2024

Juliana Gattas Pres. Maquillada en la cama @ LollaPalooza Arg 2024

Choreography & Performance: Lulu Alvarado + Pepo & Tom

× Angel Placenta at Nos en Vera

Angel Placenta Pres. NQAQA @ Nos en Vera

Direction & Choreography: Pepo & Tom

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