DAYS of MADNESS | DIAS de LOUCURA | TANGO TOURISM | SOME CALL IT TANGO

DAYS of MADNESS | DIAS de LOUCURA | TANGO TOURISM

just another divine comedy,
or
the funeral of integrity

Another dimension for the word TOURISM,
who are the TOURISTS?
Is the Tourist mainly  a Hero\ Heroin or a Villain?
a behavioral pattern characterized by  fleeting over residing, taking over giving, entertained over entertaining,
detachment over committing, entitlement over worthless

What is to be a tourist in life?
How many times are we Tourist in our own and others lifes?
What are the consequences of TOURISM?
What are the gender bounds involving the TOURIST and the DESTINATION (S)

DAYS of MADNESS | DIAS de LOUCURA | ULTIMA - The Sadness of the Flesh

DAYS of MADNESS | DIAS de LOUCURA | ULTIMA - The Sadness of the Flesh

.a VERY Special and soul deep thank you to Alain Marcus for creating, channeling and being kind enough to share with the rest of the world this piece, this touch of divine, heaven, God, Buddha, whatever it is, something so beautiful as this piece of music, is already justifying a hole life or errands, pain and mistakes - thank you for sharing and for allowing us to feel, have a taste of pure GRACE.


Days of Madness | Dias de Loucura | everywhere there is a story waiting to be told ...

This is a White canvas,
we made it ours by finding in it
our own personal stories,
a print of our own subconscious landscapes

This is your white canvas too
we invite you to find your own story,
your own  projected unconscious landscape
in these images

DAYS of MADNESS | DIAS de LOUCURA | everywhere there is a story waiting to be told |

DAYS of MADNESS | DIAS de LOUCURA

is a very personal project that is born from my personal belief ( or obsession ) that everywhere there is a story waiting to be told. And that story is most likely to be about you and more importantly about
personal psychological/ emotional themes that are locked at the unconscious level and need expression/ resolution at the conscious level.

This transforms everyday situations, objects into potential means of  personal expression and performance. In the process is crucial to be aware that the stories choose you and not the other way around, being you a participant or a observer  the validity of these experiences is to allow  your own personal stories (participants)  and interpretations (observers) to unfold and travel from your unconsciousness to your conscious level of apprehension.

In this crucial sense, DAYS of MADNESS is intended to be not a performance but a personal practice that allows subcounscious to conscious communication in the individual, and that is its main goal.

Finally, apart from its creative potential, its main goal is to auxiliate  and promote psychological/emotional  healing therapy, creating a bridge trough the individuals own unconscious and conscious states  it allows the conscious surfacing of wounded psychological and emotional themes that need to be acknowledge and dealt with.

DAYS of MADNESS | DIAS de LOUCURA | In dissociation | Try out

This is a White canvas,
we made it ours by finding in it
our own personal stories,
a print of our own subconscious landscapes

This is your white canvas too
we invite you to find your own story,
your own  projected unconscious landscapes
in these images   

DAYS of MADNESS | DIAS de LOUCURA | Rendez - vous 

This is a White canvas,
we made it ours by finding in it
our own personal stories,
a print of our own subconscious landscapes

This is your white canvas too
we invite you to find your own story,
your own  projected unconscious landscapes
in these images

DAYS of MADNESS | DIAS de LOUCURA - Exitus Es, Futurus Es

  This is a White canvas,
we made it ours by finding in it
our own personal stories,
a print of our own subconscious landscapes

This is your white canvas too
we invite you to find your own story,
your own  projected unconscious landscapes
in these images

 

DAYS of MADNESS | DIAS de LOUCURA | Exitus Es, Futurus Es

DAYS of MADNESS | DIAS de LOUCURA 

  

Exitus Es, Futurus Es

This is a White canvas,

we made it ours by finding in it

our own personal stories,

a print of our own subconscious landscapes

This is your white canvas too

we invite you to find your own story,

your own  projected unconscious landscape

DAYS of MADNESS | DIAS de LOUCURA

believes that  there is a story about you everywhere

waiting to be told

and invites you to unfold your own stories

IT HAS BEEN SO LONG

For a exception, real life has gone into the way and for the past two years i have lived more in the real life than in my mind, aka my expression work, amond so many other things I have reaccessed my personal signification and value of certain words like CREATIVE and ART, deciding to self entitle my work as EXPRESSIVE rather than CREATIVE,  I find it more truthful and I occur less risk and temptation in falling  into  a pitiful self-egocentric creative artistic label. I find it increasingly embarrassing, and my goal on my personal journey initiated 5 years ago, is to stay as faithful as possible to what TRUTH means to me in these days we live in: no career but also not refusing to work, no social making but also interacting genuinely with people, no financial success but also no economical irresponsibility. More than ever I find personal reassurance in denying  looking or gaining personal value  trough social, external or materialist ( being career ). So I continue trying to make my MAKING, my personal value and identify by solely existing as truthful as possible as MYSELF : Angela born Portuguese in 1975, currently living in London. Just being a human being, a individual.

For the better or the worst, and stripped down to the bare essentials, who am I?  Who I am  withouth my friends, my job, my clothes, my lifestyle?

How can I identify and explain myself to me and to others, to society without a social circle, a career or  a lifestyle?

What is my core as a individual human being? what are my strengths, my roles and my vulnerabilities? That is my passion, my PERSONAL TRUTH, this journey, this discovery.


It has been a turbulent, full of action , to fast period where I only had the option to react to events. In reactive rather than in choice mode.

The consequences emerge know, the conclusions, the reassessments. Part of being truly TRUTHFUL is the capability of going back to old issues and reassess them, testing your own truths, in humility  and in expectation to learn more, to go deeper just one more layer, closer, closer to the biggest mystery of all: TRUTH,  PERSONAL TRUTH.

THIS is LIFE MODELLING - trio pose sculpture ( stories of body - own and triplicated )

The latest life modeling work for Hywel sculpture class -  a trio pose small scale statues in which I posed for -  3x sustained poses -  3h per session over 7 weeks -  giving the end result to these lovely small scale black wax statues set.

Really interesting to see the gesture of my own body outside my body, and to choreograph new form compositions with the 3 poses  - so many possibilities, so many meanings - I spent hours alone in the room, playing with the 3 mini me, observing, exploring views and angles and meanings, like playing in a stage.

In the end of the sequence, a little playing around with a improvised filter -  my hand -  liked the adjacent meaning in creating another story, a veil alike imagery added to the figures, not decisively covering, oculting, following or haunting the figures. Again, maybe perhaps a reflex of own psyche -  a soft, feminine, virginal haunting veil over the figure, which subtly takes, chases, haunt.

the other story

THIS is FILM - Photography, Vanity and Identity

Photography, vanity and identity -  on going project on self portraits.

What happens when in front of the camera - like Barthes refer in his Lucida Camera - what is so fascinating in photography and in portraits especially, is  the many layers juxtaposed - and the non visual info it conveys, willingly or not, consciously or not - the beauty of the complexity of all these moments who merge when someone takes our portrait: in a fraction of second a voluntary or involuntary decision has to be made, before the shutter goes off: we are faced with the heavy responsibility of the attempt of how to present ourselves to others, the infinite, the forever ( as still, photography is seen as a potential media in which we have access to overcome our death and prolong beyond that our presence ).

The layers merge at the time of the shutter, more or less truthful, dyslexic, poetic or harsh, in a  assertive or clumsy way. The final image is always going to be a juxtaposition of:  who we are ( many times not without discontent ), who we would like to be, who we can be -  in the end always a personal image of true conveyed trough  a  more or less see trough curtain of lies, illusions, aspirations and fears.

The complexity of identity and validation, the torture of vanity, the timeless certainty  of photography.