'DRLNG - A repertoire', with Bruno Cadinha
Performance, 60', 2017
at Rua das Gaivotas 6
Having as a main impulse the dislocated perception of the feminine in an non-normative way, DRLNG intends to
be a performative piece-archive-his/herstory. A manifesto of poetic and autobiographical activism. A way to
try to map ourselves through historical incursions into the margins of the the “performative arts”, from
runways to dragshows, ballrooms or the Club Kids. Through this project we want to look at the influence of
queer practices (like the ones mentioned before) in the general history of performance/the performative arts
and in the history of queer identities (nomadic identities, unlabeled identities, etc). We want to
re-inscribe those practices as being as legitimate as authorial performances; to reclaim the anonymity of
the performative margin as a consequence of an art history that is commodified and normative. Situating the
anonymity of the aesthetic/formal structure as charged with political potential, we challenge and question
the idea of “authorship” (is this a patriarchal and capitalist idea?). An anonymity which has originated a
form of knowledge which is transmitted body to body, word to word – a repertoire. We understand this
anonymity and this repertoire as a provocation to the stability of the archive and to the logocentrism of
history.
With the support of GDA’s grant for the Performing arts
