The Lonely Tasks is a study series where I intend to explore and document
the performative utility of my body.
I propose myself simple, learned and independent tasks, inserted in a
aseptic environment, so that my body becomes reactive and exhibits
itself: the dinner, cleaning, skin care, knitting, physical activity, etc.
Regarding the performance as a dynamic system I focus on the relationship
with the audience and I try to understand this interdependency
and its role: performer-audience; performer-space; performer-
time ; etc. It’s also about responsibility.
My body. The performer’s body. The performer as a body. The body
as a performer. The performance as a body. The performance with a
body. The performance without a body. The body in the performance.
The performance’s body. (…)
Mara Andrade
Photos : José Caldeira / Cláudia Machado
