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Short Moving Images and Texts to Share my World
It goes from my recent solo work to I guess what you might call a mood board.
Life World 2023 (Brooklyn)
Solo showing with Corey Poposwki opening (comedy).
Press play on both alternating as desired.
CALL ME THREE TIMES CALL ME THREE TIMES CALL ME THREE TIMES CALL ME THREE TIMES CALL ME THREE TIMES
The same piece but in a theatre with a team who sets you up.
One of the most interesting things for me to do from place to place is to negotiate what you have (human ressources, technical ressources, time and space) and try and transport your visual and performative narrative to the specificity of that place.
There are scenes that will have to be changed the day of. I will interchange scripts and visuals to make the work possible and to keep it alive. This piece is my first full solo creation that feels like I've got something in my hands that I will work on for years to come. It's something that was only possible through constant dialogue about life, culture, and creation within the arts community I live in in Lisbon.
CALL ME THREE TIMES CALL ME THREE TIMES CALL ME THREE TIMES CALL ME THREE TIMES CALL ME THREE TIMES
For example this scene. My mother closed the show with a dancing sequence. In other shows, I have had other friends and artists make cameos as felt fitting in the context.
images here are from Joana Linda
Visuals and universes that inspire my work.
All That Jazz (1979). I love he use of kitsch materials to create fantasia on the subjects of life, death, loves, and the blues.
Working in the Studio (2023)
Working in the Aquarium (2023)
I like to see where people live. Work with Memory and Repetition. How many times have you eaten that dish? Where did you eat it first? Who have you eaten it with? Who have you made it for? Take a picture and send it to me please. image from a video work with burek, a bosnian (ottoman) flaky dough stuffed with potatoes or meat or vegetables or fruit.
Mary Louise Parker in Angels in America (2003). She is strange. She is frontal. She is dreamy.
From left to right: 1. Mamba Muntu, c. 1980. artist uknown Lubumbashi, DRC. 2. a tile from the Isabella Gardner Musem (Boston). 3. Ventriloquist, Jacob Lawrence 1952. Harvard Art Collection.
I love accumulating objects, whether it be a natural occurrence or an artificial creation. And I love birds. They are powerful creatures we look towards to cage for beauty and to feed us, to guide us where we cannot see, and to accompany us in loneliness. Rooster from Nutcracker by George Grosz 1931.
Saxon Motif, George Baselitz 1964, Carrie Mae Weems: A Great Turn in the Possible, 2022. image exerpted from book. Tile from Isabella Gardner Museum bathroom in Boston.
THE ACCUMULATION OF THINGS MAKES ME WANT TO DO SOMETHING
Excerpt from Gentrifying the Mind by Sarah Shulman. 2012
I SPEND A LOT OF TIME RESEARCHING CABARET PERFORMERS AND STORIES. I AM CURRENTLY DEVELOPING A PROJECT USING ARCHIVES FROM THE CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA DANSE (PARIS) TO MAKE A SERIES OF SHOWGIRLS EXIST IN MY OWN BODY.
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I HOPE YOU HAD FUN. AND THAT THE MUSIC IS STILL PLAYING. THANK YOU.
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