Performance
Arteba 2023, 16min.
Descartes-Borderline is a performance that takes place in a space where the walls have been duplicated by a cardboard wall that runs through the entire space. On this second wall there are a series of holes from where things and body parts come out at different moments of the performance. Other holes spit objects of mass consumption such as a cell phone, cleaning supplies, soap, chewing gum, slime, smoke, trumpets, expired pills and coins. Between the first wall and the second wall the performer will move around telling a monologue about a log- ical event that happened to her after a free diagnosis she received in the street where a group of men instead of calling her “crazy” calls her “Borderline”.
From this event begins a reasoning that should lead to a commercial opportunity, a new way of approaching capitalism: with more creativity, with less rigidity. Guided by a Cartesian logic falsified to the extreme, the protagonist of Descartes-Borderline tells a story that seems to extend through a series of holes in the walls. The text reasons through different states of consciousness of a diagnosis freely attributed in economic liberalism. This diagnosis provokes a crisis, but a crisis can also be a call for opportunity. The opportunity to provoke a business, an economic niche or a labor reconversion. Using a very free interpretation of the DSM and its different application to the methods of life, the performer gives us a text where the logic of a very particular reason, builds an almost pantheistic economic system.
With the participation of Sofia Ungar and Clara Esborraz.
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