to search for the place that keeps hiding, to accustom myself to the world’s ceaseless flight, to allow in myself the place where there are no words, to relax there as someone finding serenity in displacement, to lose, to lose more and more until reaching the inexpressible, to not speak, to not write, in order to finally start again: the wait for a name is an open highway

(Rui Nunes, in O Choro é um Lugar Incerto)

Black Light is a performance by Ana Gil and Nuno Leão, developed in the context of “Trace, Margin, Flash”, a multidisciplinary project concerning the universe found in the writings of Rui Nunes (b. 1945), involving creators from the areas of performing arts, visual arts and education.

Nunes’ work is full of elements that take writing as a performative act: the pages are filled with spaces, blanks, highlights in bold, crossings-out, phrases cut short. In this way, his writing seems to invite less of a ‘reading’ and more of a ‘gaze’, leading us to what is non-verbal in the modes of coexistence between different subjects (that which Jacques Rancière calls “the distribution of the sensible”), with its semiotic and communicative surplus, such as occurs in our gestures, our breathing, and in the movements of our body. Thus, taken as a whole, it is a record dedicated to the performativity, violence and glow of a body in actu (a body that becomes truly itself as long as the performance continues).

CREATED AND PERFORMED BY Ana Gil and Nuno Leão
LIGHT AND SOUND TECHNICAL DIRECTION pedro fonseca / colectivo, ac
SCENIC SPACE CONCEPTIONAna Gil, Nuno Leão, pedro fonseca
SCENIC SPACE CONSTRUCTIONcolectivo, ac
RESEARCH AND THEORY Diogo Martins
MUSIC “Las Islas Ressonantes” de Eliane Radigue
COMMUNICATION DESIGN Cátia Santos
STAGE VIDEO Tiago Moura
STAGE PHOTOGRAPHY Alípio Padilha, Susana Paiva, Tiago Moura, Valter Vinagre
EXECUTIVE PRODUCTION Bruno Esteves
PRODUCTION Terceira Pessoa – Associação
SUPPORTED BY Direção Geral das Artes / República Portuguesa – Cultura, Cine-Teatro Avenida Castelo Branco
ARTISTIC RESIDENCES Fábrica da Criatividade, Rua das Gaivotas 6, Cão Solteiro