NUTRICULA is a living archive in continuous development that is inviting performers from different origins to mobilise a structure for a physical solo performance.

The project aims to bring performers to a specific mental state, inviting them to follow a set of simple rules:

1. Explore the different parts of the body as objects disassociated from their function.
2. Put their limits to the test.

The project started with Ghanaian performance artist Kwame Boafo, a collaboration that was held up by visa and passport problems in both China and the European Union. The continuation of the project with other artists in different contexts is, to a major extent, a reaction to the political and economic conditions faced by artists today. More information here

What interests me in the re-production of this work is the tension between the global and the local within the performer’s body, the form in which socio-political histories and biography furnish the work and the way in which the dancer reclaims their space within such a strict context. The resulting archive is a rejection of the capitalist imperative of constant production of new material which is replaced by the recycling of the same form in a variety of versions, shaped by the identity of each collaborator.

Throughout this process we are discovering how a global economic system conditions the way in which we live, produce and reproduce, and how we react at a local level, within the limitations of our own bodies, to this reality.

More information about the project here