Expanded Portfolio: [Performance] Agah Precária [Affected]
Performance Art, Precarity, Affection, Expanded Portfolio, Agah Precária
The voice of the persona Agah Precária resonates [here], as a necessity for existence, which uses the notions of precariousness (Butler, 2004) to destabilize the order of identity genres. It compose a universe and queering practice, as a place of speech. Agah can be a metaphor for the clothes we use to go out on the street, an attribute for the social and relational realm. It is a possible composition of being for the reflection offered by the mirror. Through drawings and the artistic repertoire in contemporary art, I present my work as an artist / researcher. Works that have performance art as the central axis of creation, a field in constant flux and that has the body as the place of the event. This body is positioned on a political ground in the face of an existing massive discourse, which makes us stand against each other, crossed by affections such as fear. Thus, we are individualized and we became prisoner in obtuse narratives of solitude, behind bars, security cameras, apartment complex. The practice of performance [here] can be an invitation to visit the world and reformulate speeches, to think about the ground we walk on and to look at the other. It says about affections as a social and political bond, like friendship. This work has three parts, also interrupted by textual interventions [textures]. The first part is the portfolio with 07 works as the result of the research: ID Entidade (ID Entity) [three Parts] (2015-17); Transito-no-não-trânsito (Transit-In-Non-Transit) (2016); Enquanto me calei envelheceram meus ossos (While I stood quiet My Bones got old) [two Parts] (2017); Arremedos (Simulacrum) (2017); Casamentos (Weddings) (2017-18); Guiado pela multidão (Guided by the Crowd) (2018) and Xifopagã Capilares (without translation) [two Parts] (2018). In the second part, I present a perspective at the production of other artists: Francis Alys, Doris Salcedo, Tunga and Tehching Hsieh. The third part is a text that addresses topics related to the performances presented before. The topics are [Precarious, Other, Friendship, Precarious Body and Juggling of Signs]