And the body repeated incessantly
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Alexandra Costa

— Artist and researcher —

In the morning, I'm the morning and that's when I set myself up. And the body repeated incessantly. Body distribution: focal, segmented. Time pattern: static, persistent. Isolated: no evidence of other disturbance in the movement.

 

On the right side, a structure, object of curiosity, decisively incomplete. On the right side, a table, with plates, an apple and a censer. It takes time for us to be aware of the smell that lead us towards the universe of the liturgy. Without warning, a man enters on stage, slowly, like  someone who carries many years on the back. Visual acuity severally affected. Blindness can be translated into a movement, without passion. We are invited to participate in the composition. In the composition of the structure that is sometimes completed; sometimes separated. Physical structure as a representation of musical composition. The physical representation of sound through the movement of a column that follows the man, as the approximation of a future of clear and final contours.  

 

Our narrative is interrupted. If so far we’ve been thinking on composition, we are now automatically led towards decomposition - profound alteration, disorganization - by the abrupt dismantling of the stage. 

 

In the afternoon, I'm the afternoon and that's when I confront myself. And the body repeated incessantly. Body distribution: multifocal. Temporal pattern: progressive. Combined: followed by involuntary movements. 

 

The censer is in a bucket. In cadence, small animals are distributed around the stage. A is the father of B who is the father of C, and D is the mother of E, who is the father of F, G, H... temporal movement as a sign of the timeless movement that crosses all of us. Different individuals take the stage. From the death foretold of the first act to a rebirth in the second act: a reminder that several things bring us together. A piece, a structure, a composition. We are beings composed of other beings, our stories interconnected by temporality, by what is not affected by time.  The oral description of the movement, the oral description that follows the movement, the description that insists on the physicality and fragility of the bodies. The contrast between disorder and intimacy, in constant effort. 

 

At night, I'm the night and that's when I deal with myself. And the body repeated incessantly. Incessantly repeated. Body distribution: generalized. Temporal pattern: paroxysmal. Apotheosis. 

 

Sound emerges as a representation of collective and apotheotic memory. The burial ritual and the body in tension. The passions that cross us, the immortalization of the act of dying. As we dance, the earth falls upon us.

And the body repeated incessantly
And the body repeated incessantly
And the body repeated incessantly
And the body repeated incessantly