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Margarida Almeida
— Visual artist —
How do you build a house?
How is foundation built on torn and colonized soil? How much will is needed? How much wood, brass, brick, rope? Is it possible to find a way of rescue, to look at the objects swamped by dust and rain and make them a foundation for the future?
The bricks of the houses are red like the soil we dance on. Dancing is a house. Dancing is a house that the body chooses, without looking at limits, borders, fences, walls. Dancing is a home, it's an occupation. And it infiltrates itself into spaces like steam. It changes shape, adapts to the interstices of the most hidden, most forgotten places; it disappears, reappears (always), as the ultimate revolutionary gesture.
How do you build a house?
With clapping hands, with music. Because music is also in the rattling of the rubble that feet step on and in the sound that the walls make when they are lifted from the ground. Music is in people's speech.
How do you build a house?
The body is also a house. And a house is also a body: it lives, throbs and breathes. It needs to be taken care of.
Dancing reactivates the habitability that spaces weave among themselves, restores to the community what was stolen from it, restores its presence.
How do you build a house?
A piece of land, a bit of tin, bricks, a plastic flag that flutters.
Land to run, land to dance. Freedom.
How do you build a house?
A scream and two words marked with fire: Get out Bolsonaro!