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Cia. Gente X Rodrigo Monteiro = Fantastic slides that do not lead (sweep) anywhere
by Rodrigo Monteiro on Confrontation Metaphore by Cia. Gente
CONFRONTATION METAPHORE – The skateboard tracks give the impulse towards the space above, way up high. They draw turns in a dry-plain-country place in the interior. In the middle of all this lies a broom.
CONFRONTATION METAPHORE – João C. Silva picks up a broom and sweeps the square grounds, the lowest point of the big area with muddy gray slides.
Pause: piss smell. Aline Corrêa insufflates, expands, is supported, spins and twists. Break dance, handstand, back bridge.
CONFRONTATION METAPHORE – Metaphorá = transport, displace, take off. Metaphorá = sweep?
In the CONFRONTATION METAPHORE, the sweep is pre-production, execution and reverberation. In the big square(s) a concrete void.
Fillings of sand, rock, iron, benches and children sliding on the big magical turn that leads to another dimension. The sweep gathers and scatters, removes the dust, but stirs it up too.
In the CONFRONTATION METAPHORE, what belongs, what is already there is also swept. The dirt is only dirty because it isn’t cleaned. At pre-production, to gather dust for the conflict to happen works like cough medicine: ends the cough and brings relief. But doesn’t the cof cof friction help to eliminate what doesn’t want to be yours anymore?
At execution, João and Aline, in the twists – CONFRONTATION METAPHORE – handstands and back bridges, pile up and scatter around some collected wishes (things and people). The wish of the looking, the occupying, the facing and to feel like looking, occupying, facing.
Pause: silver tape to shine and split. CONFRONTATION METAPHORE. At reverberation, secret passages to other dimensions of the same place are invented.
The children who balance on benches are still there, opening real-imaginary spaces that are confronted by a big gray solar reflex on the/of the PEACE SQUARE CONFRONTATION METAPHORE – child and piss.
The CONFRONTATION METAPHORE: people who are and people who come and go.
The silver tape is removed the same way as the Santos sweat is wiped away with the touches and strokes of the hand. A moment of communion: circle games, playground spin, illustration and commotion. A child on the lap is the instant and the point to which everything is swept. Better said, almost everything, because there in the CONFRONTATION METAPHORE fantastic slides with the mild smell of a little pee there was still real action.
At the end, a dirty shirt.
Rodrigo Monteiro is an artist who tries to think and invent/(re)activate places where creations and creatures qualify territories.
Translation Portuguese-English: Chris Ritchie, M.A.