MUM.MY´Q (BOTH MOMMY-AND-MUMMY, ALSO QUEER-AND-QUEEN)
first performed on August 30, 2020
artist’s studio, Evora, Portugal
performed once in 2020
EDICLEISON DE FREITAS CARDOSO
Andre F. Sousa, Berta L.N. Ponte
Coimbra, Portugal / Cascavel (CE), Brazil
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MUM.MY´Q (BOTH MOMMY-AND-MUMMY, ALSO QUEER-AND-QUEEN)
EDICLEISON DE FREITAS CARDOSO
My current artistic intervention is a “ritualistic make-up” concerning a spiritual-craft that is fully composed of simple colored plastic tape—“mummy-bandaging.” This Mummy is part of a long duration inquiry for crossed-ancestralities under an attitude of being—under possession or in a trance (activating some of the diaspora old technologies). It also deals with “suffocating” (not quite a metaphor these days) as-being the mask-layer itself or the very artistic support upon my body (and it would r…e…s…o…n…a…t…e with bondage aesthetics), sometimes including a long needle to beseech inherited sewing-contact by trespassing my bleeding out of drawing over the immediate landscape this body holds. This experiment involves the expanded-body as conceived by the so-called Body-Art in terms of a Mummy resurrection for the uncountable bodies of violated minorities (as such, black, trans women, lgbtqia+, among others). It should be acknowledged that this work faces my immigrant status of living in the periphery of an exchange country within the Iberian world, myself once born into a poor unfaced villa somewhere in Northeastern Brazil.