KICKFLIP

KICKFLIP is an audiovisual installation featuring an interactive project. It compiles the personal history of a group of people whose adolescence converged in the same space—the skatepark of a small Spanish town called Tudela—during the 2000s decade.

KICKFLIP is an audiovisual installation featuring an interactive project—similar to a visual novel or walking simulator videogame—created using photographs, found documents, and audio recordings.

This project gathers the testimonies of a group of people whose teenage years revolved around a skatepark in Tudela, a small city in the north of Spain. Their personal stories, set in the 2000s and told from the present looking back, aim to offer new perspectives on themes related to adolescence, such as academic failure and school dropout, substance abuse, the discovery of sexuality, and the search for personal identity through musical subcultures.

These perspectives, told from the point of view of their own protagonists, take a critical view of how context, society, and digital culture shape adolescents’ education and experiences, often reinforcing biases, prejudices, social stigmas, and closed-minded attitudes. Without being moralistic, the project’s narrative highlights the importance and consequences of issues such as emotional well-being, gender expectations, stereotypes, and negative role models.