Situations about levitation are created in complete darkness. These situations are only visible for a split second, in the instant that a photo is taken with a bright studio flash.
Then, the images that have just been photographed are projected on a blank screen and we photograph the projected images using the same bright studio flash. The bright light of the flash imposes itself over the light of the projection and erases the images capturing only the white screen.
Finally, this second set of photos with the blank screens is printed and the prints are given to the audience, inviting them to take those images as if blank pages, eventually remembering some of the situations erased, lying ‘within’, as a ghost and a souvenir.
Levitation is a potential of the photographic medium and that is demonstrated here through theatre. I wish to try levitation to engage with an aspect of our time: the aerial view, devoid of fundamental grounds, where things are suspended without origin.
I see this performance as a sequence of ‘documentation acts’, articulating my interest in presence and absence in the theatre, in memory and traces, in strategies of conceptual art and of making the invisible appear.
aquelas histórias
as mesas que voam
levantadas por mãos invisíveis
têm pernas para andar, ou asas?
vão para baixo ou voam para cima?
num tempo em que
na vez de representações, apresentamos coisas
num tempo em que a actualidade é temporária
onde acaba o chão?
onde começa o céu?
a levitação é uma resposta possível para se ir andando
enquanto aparição e des-aparecimento
entre o céu e o chão
a levitação parece aparecer
those stories of flying
tables raised by invisible
hands do they have legs
to walk, or wings?
are they going down or flying up?
in a time where instead of representations, we present things
in a time in which actuality is temporary
levitation can be a way to circulate
to throw grounds skywards
to turn upside the inside out
to make appear an apparition
Apoio: Duração: 50 minutos // Classificação Etária: m/ 12 // Co-produção: Festival Temps d'Images (inserido no Ciclo Lugar do Olhar), Teatro Nacional D. Maria II
