Anam Cara: bodies-in-absence: surviving performance practices in light of the pandemic: a collective film work in remote isolation

Andrea Pagnes

Andrea Pagnes VestAndPage https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3696-2503

Palavras-chave: pandemia, performance artística, ausência, tempo, virtualidade

Resumo

Este texto é uma confluência de várias palestras e conversas on-line de VestAndPage que aconteceram durante os dois anos da pandemia (2020-2021) sobre os temas: a ausência do performer, virtualidade, o sentido do tempo durante a pandemia, acompanhando a exibição do filme baseado na performance ANAM CARA - Mirror in the Mirror (2020) [Espelho no espelho, em tradução literal]. Conversas e exibições foram apresentadas no contexto de festivais internacionais de arte performática e encontros, os quais, devido à COVID-19, tiveram que acontecer on-line. Na América Latina, notavelmente nas La Pocha Nostra Virtual School of Performance Dreams and Psychomagic (Mexico/US), Acciones al Margen (Colombia), Microcine de Performance (Chile), Videobardo (Argentina), CINE+PERFO (Argentina), LATITUDES (Bolivia). Este texto foi editado como um olhar retroativo sobre as reflexões, considerações, experiências, e dificuldades encontradas para adaptar performances e práticas artísticas ao vivo na internet para continuar atuando, pois, em muitos países, espaços de performance foram fechados, eventos públicos cancelados, e as ruas fechadas, mesmo que por razões de segurança. O texto inclui imagens de performances e um anexo que abrange as palavras faladas e a partitura do filme.

Biografia do Autor

Andrea Pagnes, VestAndPage

From the ArtEZ Institute of the Arts, Arnhem, Netherlands. Has been working with Verena Stenke as VestAndPage since 2006. They gained an international reputation in performance art, filmmaking, social theatre, and art community projects. Their performance practice is contextual, conceived psycho-geographically in response to social situations, natural and historical surroundings, and urban ruins. They explore themes such as pain sublimation, suffering, fragility, risk-taking, trust in change, union and endurance to merge reality poetic elements to contrast the exercise of power and discrimination. Since its inception, they have been the Venice International Performance Art Week curators. Their last film, Plantain, received the best movie award at the Berlin Independent Film Festival (2018).

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