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Less for Less is More
Telma João Santos // Corpo+Cidade 2024
4 May / 16H00
São bento Metro Station
Less for Less is More
It starts at the tip of your finger. A sensation that then spreads through the rest of my body and makes me step back. I could move forwards too, but I pull back. I run to the next stop. I stop. I feel the sensation again. This time, the tip of my ear. I don't know how it spreads, but I itch. I move forwards. No, I have to step back. How do you do it? It's always less than expected. I feel like explaining. To stop and use words. But the language is too personal to share and I'm not going to speak. I'm not going to move much. If it weren't for this feeling, I'd be standing still. Immobile. The silence. The pain of silence, the sound of silence, the narrative of silence. That's more.
Less for Less is More is a journey that unfolds and becomes visible as it becomes less present in my body. I return my costume-mask to the public space. I return all my representative possibilities, I join the place of resistance, of the shamelessness of not being an ally, of not being compatible. How can I leave visible marks in contexts of invisibility? How can I find a poetics of self-salvation through the purge of a walk? To inhabit the public space, offering it the product of institutional castration, of the artistic multidimensionality of not belonging.
‘Our situation is, in the midst of the avalanches, to try landscaping.’ Vasco Gato
Telma João Santos is an artist and independent researcher. She has a PhD in Maths and Performing Arts and taught at the University of Évora for 20 years. She has been developing solo and collaborative performances since 2006, with a path centred around the multidimensionality of forms of self-presentation, intersecting mathematical discourse and movement analysis through the dynamic concept of germination. She researches the intersections between scientific research and artistic creation, having accompanied the work of various artists: Flávio Rodrigues (whose G.O.D. project is part of his doctoral thesis), Bruno Senune, Sérgio Diogo Matias, the SillySeason collective, David Marques, among others. www.telmajoaosantos.com.
4 MAY | SAT | 16H00
São bento Metro Station
Creation and Performance: Telma João Santos
Costume design and execution: Carmen Alves
Co-production: balleteatro | Corpo+Cidade (DDD Festival)
Support for Creation: Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation
Support for Artistic Residency: Companhia Olga Roriz, Casa da Dança.
30' | Absolute Premiere | + 12
© Telma João Santos
