The Ghost Scar Solo

A method-performance of the archeology of the body

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A reviewing lecture of my different scar stories

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Scar-y Telling 7 Tales Show

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All the options

 

Performance program:

Invitation Prologue – Mirror game

Scar 1 – Coffee and Milk Scar over pubis – Being Invisible

Scar 2 – Sex Tent Scar over chin (or under the beard) – Being Gay

Scar 3 – Mirror Scar over eyebrow – Being Seen(ager) Artist

Scar 4 – Cracking Scar over forehead – Being an Artivist

Epilogue – Healing Studio Ritual

 

On the fridge – Scar Triptych over Belly – Being Migrator

 

Duration: 3 episodes

 

Special thanks to all the accidents, traumas, fights, Apass projects and researchers, shit fascist presidents, homophobia I’ve met in my journey, to every lover (even the ones whose name I can’t remember, my personal bullies, my true friends, my family for all the damage good as well as bad, the dedicated mentors and the hated mentors also, and to everyone I forgot but is related anyhow to this project done in A.PASS (2019-2020).

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Partnership: Luiz Fernando Marques (Lubi)

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I sometimes investigate my own image. What am I really? What stories are really mine?

I used to be solved. I used to be privileged, I used to be white, I used to be  many things that I'm not sure about anymore.

I am the moment of the meeting. I am the instant and the frame of the meeting. The encounter with the multiple selves that inhabit the imperfect geography of me. Bones as stones. Maps of my body. Revolution of traumas. Tongue fingering the words. Cutting and soaking rituals. Dancing auras. Blind touching. Improvising. Documenting time that already dead.

How to start the exhumation of the different Flavio’s that dwell in me?

Why do I suspect this is interesting to anyone but me? I don’t know, but…

This is an archaeological work of my scars and where and how these scars project ghosts of me into the world.

 

Research objects - my body is the place, skin, flesh, hair, fluids ... Scissors and razors make their way, scocth tapes delimit the frame, the boundaries. Brushes and pigments mark the territories.

 

Expected technique - clean, isolate the perimeter of the scar, expose the scar with the aesthetic trait that transforms it into sensitive artistic information.

 

Result - finding the traces of the multiple selves that inhabit this body. Reframing the body a new positioned political body.