#106 COCO Lipo in Mexiko

COCO Lipo is an experimental collaboration between Julia-Lena Lippoldt's body performance practice and Luis Negrón van Grieken's live-cinema techniques, creating a hybrid audiovisual experience that merges physical and digital realms.

The project explores the intersection of moving image and corporeal expression through real-time video manipulation that responds to live body movement. Lippoldt's performative interventions become both subject and catalyst for the visual narrative, while Negrón van Grieken's live-cinema processing transforms the body into abstract visual textures, creating a dialogue between the physical presence of the performer and the digital manipulation of their image.

This collaborative work investigates themes of identity, transformation, and the boundaries between the organic and the mediated. The live-cinema element captures and reinterprets bodily gestures in real-time, fragmenting and reconstructing the performer's presence through layered video effects, color manipulation, and temporal distortions.

Presented across multiple venues in Mexico's cultural landscape – from the intimate setting of Casa Spencer in Querétaro to the dynamic environment of Festival de Mario Infinito in Mexico City – COCO Lipo adapts to different spatial contexts while maintaining its core exploration of the symbiotic relationship between body, technology, and visual narrative.

The collaboration represents a cross-cultural artistic exchange, bringing together European experimental practices with Mexican performance culture, creating new forms of expression that transcend geographical and disciplinary boundaries.