Trees (Árvores)

Trees (Árvores) is an exercise in the desire for permanence.
Body-Trees upside down, headstanding, reversing space and questioning time. How
long can a body handle it for?
The work
explores the possible ways for a body to resist, to persist, and to promote
potencies. The body upside down provides the sense that time is the action
itself. And it turns itself into action in its desire for permanence.
Permanence as a co-existing being.
The idea
to convey the ÁRVORES performance
through a workshop with local artists emerged as a desire to broaden the
discussion about permanence and as a possibility for interfering not only in
the city’s urban landscape but also, through the possibility of the sharing
process, its practice and aesthetics.
The
performance ÁRVORES creates temporary
landscapes, metaphorical trees in the city, which become more effective through
contact with its inhabitants. Bringing local artists into the performance is a
way to stimulate an exchange, an environment between performance and the city,
as well as to create and absorb new meanings within the local context. (Clarice
Lima)

Organisation:
City of Women.