Ana Laura Aláez - PORTADORAS QUEER EL DOBLE Y LA REPETICIÓN feat. "STILLSTAND" the first single of the new Ascii.Disko Album "Todos los conciertos, todas las noches, todo vacío". "STILLSTAND" is available now on the limited edition 12" Vinyl "VERDOPPELN / WIEDERHOLEN E.P." https://asciidisko.bandcamp.com/track... Produced throughout 2019 and early 2020, Queer Carriers: The Double and Repetition can be classified in different ways, all and none of which are possible at the same time: manifesto, music video, performance, diary, visual catalogue, trailer The work includes numerous references to dance, drawing and sculpture. The outbreak of the pandemic necessitated a change in the original script and forced Aláez to become more flexible the project and its undertaking, testing other possibilities which in the final edition turn all the chapters into a visual continuum of different sequence shots, with music acting as the nexus and common thread. Aláez states that she has never been interested in categories like homosexuality, bisexuality, heterosexuality. She believes that this is not the conflict. This refusal to set one's sexual identity in stone associated with queerness is an innate circumstance. She doesn't see it as exceptional. She finds what is normatively considered 'normal' strange. This work alludes to her own concept of queerness in both life and artistic processes. It appeals to a certain life attitude to make this to-and-fro more fluid. The sound part of the work is by the German composer Daniel Holc (Hamburg, 1974) known as Ascii.Disko a benchmark in electronic music and experimentation with a background in different contemporary sounds who composed and performed the music track 'Stillstand'. According to Aláez '50% of the visual project is based on a specific electronic music project the perfect medium to underscore reiteration, abstraction, revolution and anarchic energy'. The inclusion of electronic music in the video revives an element that was very important in the artist's work between 2000 and 2008 but that has been absent from her creative processes since then. Thus, almost all the intentionality of the video lies in the repetitive rhythm that increases until minute 4:48, where the performers start falling the skater in New York and the performer in Bilbao. The refrain 'I can't get away from myself' fosters a certain narrative. Queer Carriers: The Double and Repetition was the winning video in the category 'Music Video International Audience Award' at the International Short Film Festival in Oberhausen (Germany) in 2021.