A Deriva de Édipo

Statement

This performance was based on Voluntary Servitude Discourse of Étienne de La Boétie’s, the name “The Oedipus Drift” is an illustration of Oedipus, a personage of Greek mythology. The performance illustrates a society that, at the same time as it borders on tyranny, transforms itself into it, because it feeds on what kills it, the strings symbolize the act of being unconscious of not wanting freedom, but the strings are falsely imprisoned, symbolizing a lack of argumentative structure “No, the masses have not been deceived, they have longed for fascism at certain times, under certain circumstances, and this is what needs an explanation, this perversity of collective desire.” Reich quoted by Félix Guattari in The Anti Oedipus The live was held at SYNNFEST – Festival of Alternative Arts in São Paulo/Brazil in 2013.

A Deriva de Édipo 01/06

A person sitting with a large black object or mask covering their face, surrounded by tangled black strings hanging around and across the scene, in black and white.

A person wearing a hooded plastic bag mask surrounded by tangled strings or wires.

A person with long dark hair sitting on a corner of a room, with arms and face covered in mud or dark paint, in a black and white photo.

A person with long dark hair sitting on a wooden floor, covered in mud or dark paint, with their head bowed and arms crossed over their knees in a dark, shadowy room.

A person lying on the floor, holding a sword in one hand, surrounded by scattered belongings, in a room with wooden flooring.

A person sitting on the floor with their head covered, surrounded by tangled wires or strings in a dark room.

A Deriva de Édipo 07/08

A person sitting on the floor surrounded by tangled strings or wires, with a wall in the background and a piece of furniture on the right.

A woman crawling on the floor surrounded by spider web decorations in a room.

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