„TO THE ROTTENNESS I SAY YOU ARE MY FATHER. AND TO THE WORMS MY SISTER AND MY BROTHER“

2022

Lecture Performance

collective space Pedreira // Showing at Marmolprojectroom, Nov 2022, Porto(PT)

During a two-month residency I wondered where we can find formal or material zones of encounter between animals and people. With the method of „speculative fabulation“ I invented a historical story, which drifts between science and fiction. Through its processual character, the Lecture performance raises open questions, which are not answered by itself. My research in the human – animal studies and so the content of the performance is ongoing.

The parallel events and inflationary use of different media allows for little focus of attention. There are missing pieces in the story, certain drawings and words that emerge remain unreadable. I used my voice,a microphone, a presentation of images through a projector and drawings that are created live. After detailed scientific and fictional accounts, I take a fictional ritual from history and transfer it into a scientific framework, so I include it as a performative element and burn horn dust with some hair samples from the audience.

Can the planting of a fictional history create a progressive future? Isn’t the history of mankind anyway only a collection of archaeological speculations of powerful white men? Is it actually sustainable love or sustainable slavery to turn a wolf into a dog? How did human beings ever find it plausible that the world is neatly riven by an ontological divide?

With friendly support by SOFTROCK.PT and the Pedreira collective

filmed by Pauline Maure

photos Performance: Beatrice Blasi 

photos of the Showing: Bruno Lanca