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THE PHOTOPERFORMER

A CONCEPTUAL  PERSONAE CREATED TO EXPLORE, CONFRONT AND EXPAND MY PHOTOGRAPHIC BEING

THE
PHOTOPERFORMER

MANUEL VASON

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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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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The PhotoPerformer is not alone! (Shillong 2015)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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…







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