Knowing what animates and moves me, a friend – Flora – recommended the book Les Guérillères by Monique Wittig. An incompletely written epic poem with an almost mythical force, it describes the daily life (and revolt) of a group of women, invoking their visions and determinations in extremely sensory and even hallucinatory environments, anchored in the firm will to overthrow an oppressive system in order to create a language (meaning world) that speaks their language. Elles (‘they’), as Wittig calls these women, are the protagonists of a revolutionary political and poetic project.
A text that I read little by little. Skipping pages, flicking back and forth. A reading made up of gaps that allowed me to imagine possible continuations of the story, fill in holes in the plot and finally project myself into it.
Alongside this, the illustrations by Tja Ling Hu, the performances by Ana Mendieta, the words on witch-hunting by Silvia Federici and Kristen J. Sollee made up a set of materials that reveal archetypal and mythological female figures and which, together with the desire to evoke their presence and the need to do nothing, to remain still, form the (in)visible fabric of what I am presenting here.
COSMOGONIES, They won’t be able to kill our spirit, a performance governed by principles of circularity, making visible a figure that traverses a dreamscape in constant metamorphosis, may be a cut-out of Witting’s text, but it is above all a kind of conversation. Como se eu estivesse a conversar com a autora, a conversar com o que ela escreveu, a conversar com todas elas. And inevitably, in this phantasmatic exchange, I emerge: what I can be at this moment with all the junk that occupies me, that I’m carrying into the future. And in the pauses, as well as listening to them – to them – the states emerge and the dance sews them together.
Letting the lightness, the unknown and the underground connect and confuse to create a place between. In a calm atmosphere, almost as if it were possible to address an invitation to breathe together.
