UNDERmy-your-ourSKIN performed at Chashama Gala 2021, New York
Sculpting a collective bodily ephemeral moment...
It is more a realisation than a strategy. It is an invisible and impalpable language solely existing for predictable thoughts and unprecedented feelings.
As a performance, this phenomenon transforms its ritualistic function and embraces its esoteric nature. Inner voices are an anchor for some, creating a necessary balance. But, when achieved, that state can become a weight beyond people’s own gravity, drowning them in this unsettling place between the void and oblivion.
The performance is a durational but ephemeral experience engaging with two interconnected and embedded principles. The modularity of thoughts and the granularity of feelings are designed as coping mechanisms. They are wrestling each other to remain the body’s compass. The eyes and the breathing are developing layers of immediate intimacy between the participants. As a performer, I’m not at the centre anymore; I’m a medium.
And as such, my capacity to see, listen and feel must guide my intentions and instinct. So, this is now my process to preserve and amplify the others’ body resonance.
What has been told, untold, shared, expressed, suppressed, and unfolded is the corpus of this living art experience.
UNDERmy-your-ourSKIN started as an invitation about individual absence and collective presence. The performance is the definitive form of a research process. Still, it has no evidence nor conclusion as the bodies are taking and carrying a new epigenetic variation of intimate and collective memories.
When the inner and outside voices merge without noticing it, the body and the mind are in sync. Therefore, ready to map and frame what is inside, what was before.
This moment of togetherness and state of disconnection establishes a situational self as a centre and a link.