The performative activation in someBODY’shoes is the last meeting of the Mutantes project, which over the last four months has been thinking about alternative formats, or other existences within conventional formats, thus questioning the performative dimension of places and things.
The determinations are drawn by people; other people make rules to comply with them; the determined rules are thus drawn in the spaces; the spaces are marked on the bodies of all the other people, the bodies of countless people are marked on the works of art and the works of art mark the already marked people by drawing normative spaces. And what do we do with what doesn’t fit into the norms, what’s left over from the determinations, the desires that exceed the rules of the spaces, the dreams that dream up other bodies? We take off our shoes, we put our feet on the ground that hasn’t yet been trodden, we remake our bodies with the shoes that are next to them.
In this durational performative occupation, we set out to discover the economical gesture that changes the norm, the infinitesimally small action that displaces determination, the serene invitation that changes the design, the simple and unusual rule that remakes the body. In different rooms designed by the exhibition format, small invitations/challenges are thrown at the body so that it achieves a performative format.
To see in another way, to sit in another format, to move at another pace, to pay attention to something else, to see the other, to be the other, to be the same in the other’s shoes.
ABOUT THE PROJECT
Mutantes - between the theater and the museum is a participatory project, open to anyone aged 21 or over, which aims to bring together a community of people to explore transdisciplinarity as a space for thought, practice and a tool for collective cultural construction. It focuses on the dialog between the stage and the museum as artistic instances configured by devices that aggregate strategies for making things seen. Rather than addressing the discourses and practices of various artistic genres, the aim is to explore and question the contamination between them, investigating the urgency of change, transformation, readaptation, variation and transmutation.