𝗦𝗘 𝗢𝗦 𝗠𝗘𝗨𝗦 𝗢𝗟𝗛𝗢𝗦 𝗠𝗘 𝗔𝗙𝗢𝗚𝗔𝗦𝗦𝗘𝗠 • Bárbara Fonte (PT)
[Performance]
Duration: 30 minutes

𝗔𝗱𝗺𝗶𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗶𝘀 𝗳𝗿𝗲𝗲. 𝗧𝗶𝗰𝗸𝗲𝘁𝘀 𝗰𝗮𝗻 𝗯𝗲 𝗰𝗼𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝟳:𝟬𝟬 𝗽𝗺 𝗲𝗮𝗰𝗵 𝗱𝗮𝘆, 𝘀𝘂𝗯𝗷𝗲𝗰𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝘃𝗲𝗻𝘂𝗲 𝗰𝗮𝗽𝗮𝗰𝗶𝘁𝘆.


When there is no longer any salvation, the body tries to create it. Perhaps that is the condition that underpins this performance. Not the search for redemption or relief, but the need to construct, through the body itself, a possibility of escape. The action arises from this helplessness. When nothing external responds, the body seeks to act as its own annihilator. It demands endurance, repetition, effort, and wear and tear, but the body is comforted by a simple idea: to build a place where it can experience a form of existence in absence. Vulnerability and exhaustion do not appear as fragility, but as a condition that allows the body to draw closer to that which remains inaccessible to it. Crying ceases to be an expression of sadness and becomes work. When transcendence no longer exists, the body creates its own miracles. As the bathtub fills, the body plunges into it repeatedly. The body has built a place for disappearance. The action does not prove that this place exists. It merely seeks to create the conditions so that its possibility may be experienced.


𝗙𝗥𝗘𝗘 𝗘𝗡𝗧𝗥𝗔𝗡𝗖𝗘


26 VOLTS - International Encounter of Performing Arts is supported by Criatório program of Porto City Council, the Iberescena Program – Fondo de Ayudas para las Artes Escénicas Iberoamericanas, the Portuguese Republic – Culture, Youth and Sports and DGArtes.

Most of our spaces at CACE are accessible to visitors with limited mobility. However, the exterior pavement is cobbled and includes some ramps with a slope.

The venue offers free parking, and food and drinks will be available for purchase on site.