The PhotoPerformer in Action

Here a series of actions performed in front of a camera with the intentions to visualise some philosophical thoughts and aspects of the PhotoPerformer:

The PhotoPerformer as an athlete of the image. (Joshua Tree 2014)

The PhotoPerformer manifests the self through the symbolic pose of exchange. (NY 2015)

The PhotoPerformer can be an anthropologist documenting his/her own life as a case study for the others. (Shillong 2016)

The PhotoPerformer is constantly carrying out the weight of his/her responsibility to communicate with and for the others. (Chicago 2015)

The PhotoPerformer is caged by the limits of the photographic medium. (NY 2015)

The PhotoPerformer made of Photography the own religion. (Boston 2015)

The PhotoPerformer exists through the gaze of the others. (London 2014)

The PhotoPerformer to stay alive is transgressing photographic rules. (Sao Paulo 2015)

The PhotoPerformer is a creature among creatures. (Chicago 2014)

The PhotoPerformer is not alone! (Shillong 2015)

The PhotoPerformer is aware of his/her ability to affect social memory. ( Hangzhou 2016)

The PhotoPerformer aims to create a new mythology of photography. (NY 2015)

The PhotoPerformer is trapped into the power of the medium. (Shillong 2016)

The PhotoPerformer practices photography as a system of connection and exchange. (Sao Paulo 2015)

The PhotoPerformer is a hunter of future memories. (Shillong 2016)

The PhotoPerformer believes in photography as the art of touching. (Hangzhou 2016)

The PhotoPerformer plays photography as a game of authority. (Hangzhou 2016)

The PhotoPerformer is preoccupied by the paralysis of life inside the image. (Hangzhou 2016)

The PhotoPerformer is fighting the distance that photography is creating. (Beijing 2008)

The PhotoPerformer is testing his/her sexuality through the lens. (Hangzhou 2016)

The PhotoPerformer encourages poetic madness as a creative mode of expression. (Lima 2013)

The PhotoPerformer lives behind a thin layer of glass. (Sao Paulo 2014)

“Becoming an Image is a ‘topos’: it testifies to an age-old urge to transcend the boundaries of space and time that confine the human body.”

(The PhotoPerformer 2016)

Becoming a Choreography

I had the privilege to collaborate with Cristian Duarte and a fantastic group of dancers during my residency at LOTE# in 2015 in Sao Paulo. During the residency we discussed how to translate the language of The PhotoPerformer into a Choreography.

If the PhotoPerformer becomes a kind of way of living (through the image) this project helped me to think at a way of moving (outside the image)…

Here some video documentation of the result…