THE CITY OF COMPTON AND ITS REBEL BODIES IN THE SUPER BOWL 2022: CARTOGRAPHY OF FIVE SCENOGRAPHIC STRATEGIES DESIGNED BY ES DEVLIN

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https://doi.org/10.12795/ppa.2023.i28.06

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Scenography, Dr. Dre, Kendrick Lamar, Los Ángeles, Atmosphere, mapping

Abstract

On February 13th, 2022, at SoFi Stadium in Los Angeles, Super Bowl LVI took place and was watched by 208 million people. During halftime, a fifteen-minute musical performance was held in which the protagonist was one of the most stigmatized territories in the history of the United States: the city of Compton, Los Angeles County. For the first time in a Super Bowl, a stigmatized place, its architecture, its streets, and its rappers were made visible and shown to the world thanks to the artist and set designer Es Devlin. The objective of this research was to reveal the scenographic strategies designed and implemented by Es Devlin’s studio to transfer Compton’s idiosyncratic atmosphere and complex spatial dynamics to the stage. This was performed through both a comparative study of Devlin’s work and a series of maps, drawings, and analytical cartographies regarding the scenography built for the Super Bowl 2022.

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Author Biography

Víctor Cano-Ciborro, Investigador Postdoctoral The New School. Universidad Politécnica de Madrid

(Madrid, 1987). Arquitecto, Máster y Doctor (sobresaliente cum laude y Premio Extraordinario 2020/21) por la ETSAM, UPM. Ha impartido docencia en Architectural Association -AA-, Londres, CEPT-University, Ahmedabad (India) y Universidad de las Américas, Quito (Ecuador). Asimismo, ha sido investigador visitante pre-doctoral en la universidad de California, Berkeley, y actualmente investigador post-doctoral en The New School, Nueva York, gracias a su contrato Margarita Salas con la UPM. Su línea de investigación se focaliza en el análisis cartográfico de aquellos territorios conflictivos y situaciones disidentes protagonizadas por cuerpos usualmente ignorados en los procesos arquitectónicos y urbanos. Es cofundador del colectivo Arquitectura Subalterna, cuyos proyectos han sido exhibidos en el Pabellón español de la Bienal de Venecia de Arquitectura 2016 y 2018, Future Architecture Platform 2017 o XX Bienal de Arquitectura y Urbanismo de Chile 2017Nueva York. 

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2023-05-27

How to Cite

Cano-Ciborro, V. (2023). THE CITY OF COMPTON AND ITS REBEL BODIES IN THE SUPER BOWL 2022: CARTOGRAPHY OF FIVE SCENOGRAPHIC STRATEGIES DESIGNED BY ES DEVLIN . Proyecto, Progreso, Arquitectura, (28), 104–121. https://doi.org/10.12795/ppa.2023.i28.06

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