MENOS POR MENOS É MAIS/ MINUS TIMES MINUS IS PLUS 

Project Description

“Minus times Minus is Plus” is a solo piece/walk, with several stops where direction and orientation are reformulated from a new “less for less is more” proposal. It could be a slogan, a pedagogical project, it could be an arrogance. It is, however, a solo piece/walk where I pass through several circumstances of my body to attain stop-places, those that attribute silence that I search for, together with solitude. It could be a manifest of a woman, mathematician, artist, researcher, free, cook, old and with no fear, but maybe it transforms itself into a manifest on how my several body shakings are part of a movement language around the silence of pain.

This solo project is developed in collaboration with Carmen Alves/Teia Trama, costume designer and artist, that will help me to configure these shakings and pains as places of visibility through costumes that will also be scenic objects. Colors, asymmetries, natural inks, fabrics rescued from out-of-date normativities.

In this piece I define a geometry returning my mask-clothes to the public space. I return all my representative possibilities to the public space that determined them. I ally myself to a place of resistance, to the impudence of not being an ally, to not be compatible, to not belong. How to leave visible marks of invisibility contexts? How to find a poetics of salvation through the purge of a walk? Each stop functions as an attractor characterized by a word to be inhabited. It is a choreographic piece from the place of denudation, liberation of aesthetical, personal, relational load. To configure the possibility of giving up, to just offering a walk where less for less is more, where I multiply negatives to obtain positives and continue without restrictions. To inhabit public space as an absent body of a clear dissident presence as if he could not be presence, configured to belong just to itself, to not be of trust in productive logics. To inhabit public space, offering the product of institutional castration, the artistic multidimensionality of not belonging.