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# Project Description Jaime Del Fresno JAIME DEL FRESNO Summary Final work Jaime del Fresno is an artist and writer based in Madrid, whose practice revolves around writing and stage direction. His literary work reflects a strong dedication to literature, with a constant search for new, radical forms of expression. He often chooses obscure and complex subjects, exploring them through both text and performance. His approach to theatre is rooted in writing, aiming to bring to life symbols and mysteries that provoke and disturb. Jaime del Fresno is an artist and writer based in Madrid, whose practice revolves around writing ... College Central Saint Martins Course BA (Hons) Performance: Design and Practice Graduation year 2025 In December 2024, the Spanish Publisher house Niños Gratis released my book, Ciudades en las que no vivo (Cities Where I Don’t Live). This is a performative text that blends various literary genres. The book is presented as a diary written between London, Madrid, and Genova, but gradually the writing gives way to fiction, poetry, and theatre. CIUDADES EN LAS QUE NO VIVO is a diary that proposes a divergent approach to writing, suggesting that literature resides in the peripheral—a place that is hard to pinpoint, that everyone sees but few dare to inhabit. Through entries written over a year spent between Madrid, London, and Genova, the author reflects on how we move through and occupy different spaces, while embarking—almost unconsciously—on a relentless search to recognise himself through his actions and the places he inhabits. He obsessively returns to the same spots until they become familiar, seeking someone who can speak to him about them. This desire gradually reveals a deeper realisation: perhaps what he truly longs for is a time he was never meant to live in. This diary is the testimony of a young man, nearly post-adolescent, overwhelmed by the suffocating rhythms of contemporary metropolises where he longs to find his place among tourists and increasingly uninhabitable cities. At the same time, it celebrates the fluidity and erotic ambiguity of urban spaces, showing how places are never as we imagine them—and how the mere passage from day to night can summon an unknown fauna and transform the most familiar settings into something foreign and uncanny. This book explores a dissociated relationship with the places we inhabit, negotiating between familiarity and strangeness. It is a diary written both at home and in bars, parks, and cemeteries, searching for traces of who we are and who we were. It is a record of negotiating with childhood, adolescent desires, and youthful frustration. Written between reflection and urgency, this diary is a manifesto in favour of surrender and intensity. Final work CIUDADES EN LAS QUE NO VIVO TO WRITE AS TO LOVE In March, I was invited by the Complutense University of Madrid to participate in the International Congress on Angélica Liddell, A Life of Sacrifice as a Poetic Act . Considering the academic context, I decided to distance myself from traditional formats, and my proposal was a performative lecture reflecting on the relationship between writing and love. My presentation was accompanied by a video I filmed in Turin. In Turin, I stayed in the room where the poet Cesare Pavese took his own life. Sleeping in the same room where Pavese died catalysed a profound connection between writing, solitude, love, and death. I decided that the text I would prepare for the conference would begin with the work of Liddell and, drawing on the writings of Pavese, Dante, and Mishima, would become a reflection on writing and life. My research led me to the conclusion that writing is always more than living, and that we write only to sustain the fleeting illusion that there is still something left to live, something left to write. As Katherine Mansfield said, I cannot write and live at the same time. Writing steals life from us—but life is always being stolen from us anyway, before, before, before. LONDON MY LOVE or THE NIGHT PETER PAN HAD NO VANITY This project is a proposal to intertwine my interests in performance, cinema, theatre, and writing. For this piece, I wrote a dialogue between Peter Pan and Wendy. On the night Wendy plans to take her own life, Peter Pan appears in her room to tell her she must go clean the Lost Boys’ kitchen. The play functions as an extended citation of the film Hiroshima, mon amour and its screenplay by Marguerite Duras. What interests me most is how Duras portrays love as a fatal and irreversible event for which we are never prepared. Our loneliness alienates us and separates us from one another. This work was born from the most important lesson I learned during my time in London: loneliness does not teach us how to be alone—it makes being in the company of others unbearable. For the dramaturgy of this piece, I was inspired by cinema, particularly the films of Pasolini, Rejtman, Lynch, and Chiha. I explored the combination of dialogue with moments of music and dance, the intention to remythologize the narrative, and the use of seemingly senseless moments and silence. The result was a thirty-minute piece that alternated between spoken text, dance, physical theatre, and poetry. Research and process MARGUERITE DURAS, A PASSION IN SILENCE Over the past year, I have been researching the work of the French writer and filmmaker Marguerite Duras. Discovering Duras has been a paradigm shift in my understanding of art and writing. Through her, I’ve learned that writing means reaching a point from which one cannot move forward—and everything is at stake in that point, in that impossible place. Writing is knowing how to resist writing; it is understanding that love begins and ends in a single glance, that a love story is the price we pay to the world for living out passion, writing. The following text is my undergraduate dissertation, in which I carried out an in-depth investigation into the work of Marguerite Duras. My focus was on exploring the performative nature of Duras's writing and how her narrative strategies—both literary and cinematic—border on silence, meaninglessness, and despair. To analyse Duras's work from this perspective, I found the essays of Foucault, Blanchot, and Phelan particularly insightful. Share this project In December 2024, the Spanish Publisher house Niños Gratis released my book, Ciudades en las que no vivo<span style="col... 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