Coletiva

Presentation/Mini-bio:

We are a Collective of body art that, since 2012, develops performing actions guided by gender and sexuality matters in the urban area.

About this Project:

Among the performing creations of this group one can find Água Dura; AI-5; Concreta; Rojas and Vidra.

"Água Dura" (Hard Water) has, as its most basic action, to wash and bang fabric against the ground, echoing outrages and generating sound friction as a way of washing the dirty laundry that pushes through our existence.

"AI-5" is an act that portrays the action of holding dripping buckets over performers' heads. Among some of the tortures practiced during the dictatorship, suspended water drips non-stop on the same spot of the head, causing paralysis. Until when are we able to bear imobility?

"Concreta" comes from the action of balancing between concrete blocks and breaking them with the help of a hammer. It's about breaking apart an unsustainable way of life.

"Rojas" is a performing action where a women's collective carries, walking down streets, a water bucket over their heads while the water drops washing red paint from their bodies. "Rojas" leaves behind the traces of everything we no longer put up to.

"Vidra" is built on the action of balancing on a glass plate that is touching the body. On this performance the glass is an invisible material that makes the analogy with the conditioning and limiting structures of bodies. The action, inspired by the expression "Glass Houses" - common to gender studies - digs up the invisible barriers of in/subordination.

In addition they develop research around the production and hang posters with pictures of performances around the streets, understanding this action as urban performance.

In conclusion they also have other original actions still in the research process that will happen when the healthcare setting is better.