In Italo Calvino’s Invisible Cities, one story describes one village where one sees lines of different colours connecting the inhabitants, displaying, each of them, the affections that stream through that small community. One love tie in full red color is described to go from one’s window to another far down the street, from one lover to another. This way, friendships, family and working ties, as well as love and hatred, or just acquaintances were made visible through these lines across the village. They shaped an invisible network of affections, shared stories and lives across the physical spaces they inhabit, in a city.
Having in mind Calvino’s imaginary village, we started wondering how it will be like to follow these ties through a city we don’t know, Taipei. We decided to start by choosing someone in a given neighborhood, a man or a woman; a first encounter, the basis and beginning for a series of meetings that will follow from it. Each person will indicate us someone else. The next person to be contacted, a friend, a relative, an acquaintance, a co-worker, or in a more extreme case, a total stranger. These encounters are thought as open-ended in terms of the results aimed. In any case, each encounter as a situation suggests its own documentation and even the procedures to follow with meeting the next person. We will apply drifting as a strategy to move through the different stages of the process. We will start by an encounter and from there constantly digress and stray to another subject seeking to enlarge the spectrum of study and the knowledge related to the modes of living of the context. This as strategy will inform its future creative transformation and use.
Why Taipei? We nurture an interest in the emerging experimental cinema made in Taiwan ( Tsai Ming Liang). In this realm, the direction of story telling is treated with delicateness and unusual ways of crossing narrative and image. Something in how the particular temporalities shape the daily activities and human relationships, how Taipei potentially seems to affect those who live in it and the micro realities they occupy.
In these encounters, we will move through experiencing the space of the trivial, entering locals’ daily life and crossing their stories. We will include and accept the digressions following the specific conjunctures of the search of these meetings.
We are artists who work in performance, specifically dance and choreography but approach our works with transversality and multidisciplinarity. Coming from Brazil and Portugal we share a common interest in engaging in creative processes whose outcomes are free from a previous agenda. We carry the desire to depart from a collaborative conceptual premise that places the context at its center to ignite moves from experience to text, from perception to image, from reality to fiction and from documentation to art making.
António Pedro Lopes and Gustavo Ciríaco.
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