Lecture-Performance with publication of text on event proceedings, catalogues, scientific journals and books. 2009 – Ongoing
The work is comprised of a theoretical essay where I propose a new practice of consumption (ingestion, digestion and excretion) involving a technological mediation. It contains a manifesto-poem with a new take on the original Manifesto Antropófago written by the Brazilian modernist author Oswald de Andrade in 1928. His manifesto was an assertion of the unique Brazilian voice in the emerging modern time, away from clichés of colonialism, while unapologetically metabolizing outside references from the First World. My reflexion seeks to update that anthropophagic practice of cultural cannibalism to the digital age, where the virtual world is the new frontier and anyone can be a colonizer. Lately, the work has evolved to consider how Anthropopahgy is a devouring of the earth by Capitalocene forces. This was reflected in the most recent performance in 2016 at Kultursymposium Weimar The Sharing Game. Exchange in Culture and Society, where the boat (a recurring protagonist in the staged work) becomes a refugee raft among a sea of garbage).
This work was initiated in May 2009 and completed in July 2010. But as the work itself is anthropophagic in nature, it morphs and acquires new insights depending on the context where and when the performance is presented.
