Landscapes, Machines and Animals

The motivation to make a series of projects around landscapes, machines, and animals arises from the need to think of a piece that is not exhausted in a single performance, but that could dialogue with other works. The recurrence of the landscape and the body as the landscape in my projects, even if not always in an obvious way, determined this cycle of work that began with IO, will continue with Neve [Snow], and will have the third part with Distante. This fictional adventure should result in an inter-piece and intra-piece dialogue. Landscapes, Machines, and Animals, the concepts involved here, show three vanishing points in the definition of the human and, simultaneously, open themselves as categories to think of the performing body. In all the pieces, these dimensions are present and intersect, although the starting point for each one is respectively in each of the dimensions. If in IO the body convokes the animal and the mythological, the primitive and the technological, in Neve, the landscape emerges in its variants, that is, landscape as the outside, the exterior, the individual as intelligent landscape, the emotional and sound landscape, the filmed image as narrative landscape. In Distante, we start from the idea of a body-machine that allows us to work in this paradox of distant-proximity and that starts from the technique as a fundamental tool for humanization.

Né Barros