De bOca Cheia — Julia Salem
De Boca Cheia is a performance that contemplates two object-pieces, with similar structures, whose scenic device borrows the visual arts concept of diptych: a fold that contains two related images. The first object-piece focuses on a standardized gesture of speech, namely political and, to a certain extent, masculine. The egg in the mouth contains an implicit criticism of some modes of communication, namely “hollow”, empty messages, said not to be understood; when speaking with your mouth full; by saying and not saying anything; the non-possibility of speech or a blockage of it. The second object-piece deals with the normalization of certain female gestures and images built by the media. From the failure of a communication and the research of gestures and standardized images, this performance-fold-diptych makes a crossing through the body and the sound (proto and pseudo speeches and words), transmuting to other gestural-imagetic and dis-discursive possibilities.
About Julia Salem
Julia Salem (São Paulo, Brazil/ 1982) is graduated in Communication and Performing Arts (2006) in dance and performance. She holds a master’s degree in Communication and Arts from UNL (2019). Since 2010 she has been collaborating with several artists in the performing arts. Among his latest works, she conceived and created with Ana Corrêa Procedimentos para Encontrar-se – Fundação GDA |Apoio a Espetáculos de Teatro e Dança 2019; Cadeia de Transmissão com Apneia Colectiva – Dgartes/ FES CML/ Garantir Cultura – 2020/21; Explode Quando Emerge com Joana Levi- Garantir Cultura 2021. Since 2019 she has been a member of the Apneia Colectiva Associação Cultural and the Cooperativa Cultural Penha Sco.
