Os amigos que desconheço : performance(s) do caminhar e a guerrilha dos cuidados no Antropoceno

Abstract

Os amigos que desconheço is a process of creation artistic and poetic conceived as a walking performance where the walk is compose as a fundament and quality of guerilla and put into pratice as a care of thought and action in relation to the emergency and permanency of the Anthropocene. If the Anthropocene, the epoch geology of man, when the man became a geological strenght, indicates a time inexorable of intensification of the catástrofes in the whole planet, how it´s possible to walk-live between catastophes? And what can walking make us see and create as a line of flight and desertion in relation to the way we have lived, especially in the face of collapsed structures that are large urban centers? Thus, this artistic path is pronounced through the impacts and metamorphoses that affect the performer-walker in a world that quickly and violently runs over new premises to life. Shoes, in this sense, are the starting point that guide him in the plot of this process-path. They appear as spectral images that suggest tragedies. Footwear on the streets: what do they say about the bankruptcy of the world and what can they suggest about stories and/or situations that arouse sensitivities and/or care that strengthen us and/or point to other paths? To think of them in these terms, I performed a way of going and making myself towards them; I'm your friend, I told them. Along with them, this process expanded – even giving rise to consequent performative series – and being sculpted through countless lines of writings and literary densities, between grafts and strata of thought, poetic fragments and theoretical and/or imagery insinuations, who speculate and discuss, in their own way, about the ways and possibilities of walking and, therefore, of existing, in a world that is increasingly hostile to the body and bodies.