FIO CONDUTOR

6 OCTOBER

Place X is a creation for public space about the mechanisms of extracting value from bodies, ecosystems, life and relationships. Extractivism marks the location of the treasure with an X. At this moment, no place, body, or form of life escapes marking. I intend to create fictional maps of the places where we don't want to or can't return, because there is no treasure to extract, no pleasure to discover. And, at the same time, investigate gestures to stay alive, despite and in the devastation. How do you create a body from ruins?

In the place we left behind, we opened a hole and dug. The earth calls us. We came to visit a lover, our own bloodless land. You can always open a hole. Breaking the cement and oblivion. Excavate various horizons and bring your listening closer to the ground. We open a hole and talk to the skin of that void. A collective meditation, where hands trace paths to impossible memories and gestures.

R/Espigar is a project around food, nutrition and recipes that remain in the senses or that are formed on the table. Over two years, tastes, smells, memories, ways of doing things and a wide variety of experiences were gathered, collected and shared through interviews and interactions with the Campanhã community, from Formiga to S. Pedro de Azevedo.

The affective collection of this long journey now culminates in an almost archival installation – where knowledge and the ephemerality of gestures are highlighted through the spoken word, moving images, photography and traces – as well as in a new collective meeting to activate, share and exchange the recipes and experiences collected so far.

Dear place, I have observed you for quite a while now. I know you hold a mystery that we have to unravel. I know that you have been through some challenges lately and that things are not how they used to be. Some changes appeared that made you look and feel differently. Nevertheless, a horizon is drawn yet to be fulfilled. OFRENDA is a gathering to make an offering to this place. OFRENDA invites you to pay tribute to a place in transition. To build a collective memory made of stories, dances, gestures, words, and any other material or immaterial thing that made it how it is today. And through this act to listen together to the possibilities that are drawn on the horizon.