October, 2025. Some more photos made by
@thomaslenden during the performance at
@coko.space .
Thanks
@rose.akras and
@bea_correa_
And all people that were there and send me nice thoughts, comments and vids.
“We are, constitutively, companion species. We make each other up, in the flesh. Significantly other to each other, in specific difference, we signify in the flesh a nasty developmental infection called love.”
The Companion Species Manifesto: Dogs, People, and Significant Otherness. Donna J. Haraway
Humorous and provocative, Belfiore departs from the notion of performance as an unfolding of our understanding of the material world and the social relations shaped by class struggle.
Offering a visceral critique of consumerism and spectacle, the work alchemically stirs imagination and hope, regurgitating the concept of capitalism as religion.
The piece takes as its points of departure the Vira-Lata Complex — a term first coined by writer Nelson Rodrigues and later expanded by philosopher Marcia Tiburi to describe the inferiority complex of the colonized, their submission in the face of injustice and inequality — and the participatory practices of visual artist Lygia Clark, a seminal figure of the Tropicália movement.
The performance probes questions of obedience, fetishism, and trained domestication, while also devouring revolt itself.
Our guts, nine meters of nerves and memory, become a stage where matter, emotion, and wildness break through.
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