2023
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This performance was an experiment in expanding a novel that did not want to be a novel, exploring the relationship between voice within the women of my family, including myself. It delves into the act of writing and the reluctance to finish or let go of this text, which transformed into a performance, a novel-score-ritual to engage in a dialogue with a manifesting darkness that desires to expand, speak, and be named.
The performance involved giving instructions for attendees to read a text for each character and then destroy the text in various ways. As they read, their words were projected on the screen, triggering different reactions from the text simultaneously as the musician Granito provided synthesizer accompaniment.
After the reading, attendees were required to interact with the pages they had used (e.g., sewing shut one of the scripts so it couldn't be read anymore, marking the pages with an X or burning the text).
This was part of "Floresta Efímera," a cycle of digital literature focused on performative reading with new media curated by Canek Zapata.
i was raised in a city created for tourists and rampant consumption where i learned how to write in between the margins where i learned to enjoy the symptom of liminality where i learned to enjoy flashy devotion, whenever im using a computer i feel so much freedom, i could do whatever i want, write wherever i want, create things out of thin air, alienated, we learn to love the tonality of the life we lived when we grew up, that’s why i love airports and empty malls and anything quiet and devoid of movement, i have learned to love freedom more than anything else and that is just the way it is