And it’s inside myself that I must create someone who will understand.

Clarice Lispector

Emotionss like fear and desire are commonly used  as part of branding processes: someone’s nonnormativity, when shared in na empathic and  entrepeneur way, raises fear and desire. Someone’s nonnormativity is another one’s fear and desire. Fear and desire that it happens to her/him/they, the empathy of seeing herself/himself/themselves. We want to happen but we don’t want it to happen to us. We are interested in exploring the tension between being particular and simultaneously being a brand of that same particular. We are interested in landscapes where the body becomes particular within difference, but when it is placed as a brand of that difference, it participates on the hegemony of a set that dismisses interlocutors, participating also on its own disappearance.

ARTISTIC DIRECTION AND PERFORMANCE Telma João Santos

CO-CREATION AND PERFORMANCE Bruno Senune, Jaja Rolim, Telma João Santos

SONOPLASTY Telma João Santos

COSTUMES, SCENERY SUPPORT AND SPECIAL PARTICIPATION Carmen Alves

IMAGE/LOGO Bee Barros

PRODUCTION SUPPORT Patrícia Freire

CREATION SUPPORT GDA Foundation

INSTITUTIONAL PARTNER Garantir Cultura/República Portuguesa

SUPPORT FOR ARTISTIC RESIDENCES CAMPUS Paulo Cunha e Silva, Olga Roriz Company, 23 miles, Galeria Dínamo

TELMA JOÃO SANTOS

PhD in Mathematics (2011) and PhD in Performance Art (2016), Telma João Santos is an independent artist and researcher. She taught for 20 years at the University of  Évora, is a performance artist since 2008, presenting her work in several different spaces in Portugal: ZDB (Lisbon), Desterro (Lisbon), Silos (Caldas da Rainha), Teatro Ibérico (Lisbon), TMJB (Almada), SHE (Évora), MAPS (Setúbal), among others. She documents and researches works form other artists, writing on journals as Performance Research, Leonardo, Liminalities, CITARJ, etc.

www.telmajoaosantos.net

www.betweenfearanddesire.com