The Fabricated body

The PhotoPerformer is a kind of training aimed to project a conceptual persona and connect with its limits.

Following the Brazilian anthropologist Viveiros de Castro’s concept of the ‘Fabricated Body’ (1979), the specific aim of this project/research is to spend a considerable amount of time as The PhotoPerformer in order to alter my consciousness and document the process of transformation.

Looking through the camera is equal looking at a distorted image of the world.

Privileging the action to the image is like freeing photography from the program inbuilt in any digital camera.

The union of the Body Camera with the Body Human is a total absurdity! But who said absurdity should not be reached and practiced?

Ultimately the function of all these exercises is to honour the unexpected, the fragile, the doubt, the ironic and most for all the Imaginal.

Can the camera allow us to strengthen a connection with our bodies?

Is it by sabotaging the program of the camera that we can stop controlling our bodies?

Stunt Training

The PhotoPerformer underwent professional stunt trainings (British Action Academy 2016).

The stunt like the cameraman shares the ‘being invisible and anonymous’ position but their presence and skill are irreplaceable and essential for the success of the result.

The aim of the training was to merge the two roles in one and create a stunt cameraman. The juxtaposition of the physical with the fictional, the unicity of the risk with the repetition of the process, made this experiment very stimulating.

Here a small clip of the PhotoPerformer/Police/Hunter:

Can the PhotoPerformer reach stillness and movement at the same time?

Well, this particular exercise of jumping from a tall structure seemed to have resolved the problem: while in the air The PhotoPerformer was aiming at immobility.

The 100 poses to perform a photograph

This is a manual of illustrated instructions.

This is an archive of photographic embodiments.

This is a system of representation based on: the functional, the geometrical, the symbolic.

This is the behaviour of a child with a photo camera.