Portable Cholets - La mesa is a short film constructed over three years of investigation in El Alto, La Paz. 
Portable Cholets is a stage set crafted by the Architectural Association’s participants. Portable Cholets is a performance recorded in collaboration with the film director Marcos Loayza. 
Portable Cholet is an artistic attempt to question
notions of identity, folklore and contemporary rituals translated into architecture.
We would like to show this performance not only presented through a screen but as a spatial action, where viewers could go inside a prescribed space, entering a high plinth which allows you to be surrounded by the 360 video. 

From the outside, this inhabitable telescope is constructed by a wooden frame and a colored embroidery coating, like Bolivian fabrics and carpets. The threads come together and move as if they were alive. Once inside, its muffled shell lets you see the performance in a loop.

The Bienal du Sur will become a dynamic testing ground for these qualities:
How can folkloric masks and costumes trigger an effective architectural cycle?
How can we define a proper physically and symbolically site-specific intervention?
This inhabitable telescope will have to envision a composite spatial performance with their
prop, involving the sensible and behavioural parameters of a public stage-set. Viewers and guests will explore the context of El Alto enabling the mutual immanence between bodies and spaces,objects and ceremonies.