My body as vessel of memories
my body as an archive of emotions
my body as a space where i am looking back over time
my body as a symbolic codification of spare parts of events.

 

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In this performance the focus is on the way that the body translates, resists, and share the emotions and memories of events from the past.

 

“(Dis)remembering: the body”, is the third development of my research. A loop of events throughout the course of the performance consisting of a series of steps from composition of a text to its subsequent placement in a pigeon hole for it to become accessible to the audience.

 

On the floor is a scattering of several hundred screws and nails, which become the bed for the performance. As I write, I sit, kneel and lie on the screws, before traversing them to confront the cage, which I then climb up and over in order to reach and label one of the pigeon holes, before depositing the text and return to the writing phase. This loop of action continued for the 3 hours of the performance.

The audience is free to come and go, and again, choose their mode of interaction - either as passive observer, or as interlocutor having the choice to open a pigeon hole and digest the communiqués of which only one is addressed directly to the audience.

WALKING BAREFOOT ON SCREWS:

 

Bare feet are associated to childhood and innocence. Walking on nails and screws can be seen as a test of an individual’s strength and courage or as metaphor of the emotional pain and difficulties to communicate with yourself and/or with the others.