Delirar o racial
Davi Pontes & Wallace Ferreira
co-curated with Renan Araujo and Margot Cuevas
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Within the frame of Loop City Screen Barcelona, 2024
L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, España
To think about time is also to think about our relationship with spectral presences. In this sense, temporal linearity itself can be a ghost that still haunts us: it preserves hierarchical and violent structures, it limits our perception and our modes of action. Starting from this premise, in “Delirar o racial” (2021), Davi Pontes and Wallace Ferreira propose a choreography that escapes the arrow of time, fusing theoretical thought and movement in a practice of self-defence. By rejecting the image of a single, self-sufficient figure, they reflect and refract each other, producing symbolic deviations from the bodily dynamics of power assertion and repression programmed by the State.
To rave about time - as inaugurated by modern thought - would already be a form of raving about the racial, if we think that the origin of the concept of human difference and, therefore, of race comes from this same thought. Infused with the words of the philosopher Denise Ferreira da Silva, the movement of their bodies describes a universe in which difference is not a manifestation of an unsolvable estrangement, but the expression of an elemental interweaving.
To rave about time - as inaugurated by modern thought - would already be a form of raving about the racial, if we think that the origin of the concept of human difference and, therefore, of race comes from this same thought. Infused with the words of the philosopher Denise Ferreira da Silva, the movement of their bodies describes a universe in which difference is not a manifestation of an unsolvable estrangement, but the expression of an elemental interweaving.
Pensar en el tiempo es también pensar en nuestra relación con las presencias espectrales. En este sentido, la misma linealidad temporal puede ser un fantasma que todavía nos persigue: conserva estructuras jerárquicas y violentas, limita nuestra percepción y modos de actuación. Partiendo de esta premisa, en “Delirar o racial” (2021), Davi Pontes y Wallace Ferreira proponen una coreografía que huye de la flecha del tiempo, fusionando pensamiento teórico y movimiento en una práctica de autodefensa. Al rechazar la imagen de una figura única y autosuficiente, se reflejan y refractan, produciendo desviaciones simbólicas de la dinámica corporal de afirmación y represión del poder programada por el Estado.
Delirar el tiempo - tal y como inauguró el pensamiento moderno - ya sería una forma de delirar sobre lo racial, si pensamos que el origen del concepto de diferencia humana y, por tanto, de raza proviene de ese mismo pensamiento. Infusionado con las palabras de la filósofa Denise Ferreira da Silva, el movimiento de sus cuerpos describe un universo en el que la diferencia no es la manifestación de un enajenamiento irresoluble, sino la expresión de un entrelazo elemental.
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Interview with Davi Pontes by Julia Coelho, Renan Araujo and Margot Cuevas
designed by Paula Illescas Fernandez
