atlas da boca
braba plataforma (Por)

Date: 27th+28th of May
Time: 21.00
Venue: Bora bora
duration: 45 minutes

About the performance

Atlas da Boca explores two bodies through the mouth. As a symbol, the mouth becomes the interface between the public and the private, between the erotic and the political, between silence and the word that lasts.

Atlas da Boca discusses this symbolic space where the mouth becomes the interface between the public and the private, between the erotic and the political, between silence and the word that lasts. In these situations, the word becomes identity, affection, faith, and laughter. Like babies who discover the world by putting the world in their mouths: knowing the taste of the floor, the house keys, and their mother's hair. We grow up and the mouth becomes a place farther from the hand, more elaborate, sober and superb.

In this collection of words that move from mouth to mouth and mouth to inside, Ary and I allow ourselves to overflow with some words in a very horizontal and unpretentious relationship with the public. We both transitioned past the age of 30 and are now starting to experience/be other words and experience the world in new positions. Despite being two trans people, our path within the show tries to encompass portions “reduced on high heat” of the experiences that anyone can face when loving, losing and finding themselves with the unknown. The work asks about the words-gestures that we perform in the meetings, about the familiar and strange languages that pass through our body and about the moments in which the mouth stiffens, letting the word come out roaring. We have a curious insistence on our ability to hear with other parts of the body and with what the mouth tries to make eternal. We are like babies passing their mouths into existence and feeling some flavors for the first time.

“Atlas da Boca is a refreshing take on gender identity, which doesn’t resort to the usual autobiographical tropes. The poetry of de Medeiros’s writing appeals to the imagination, while the humanity of the performances gives us space to feel for them both”

— springback magazine

“While the experience they are sharing with us is utterly personal, we all have a body and skin. The world certainly needs more of such generous, humbling and thought-provoking works”

— springback magazine

“In a world where respect and understanding for the transgender community still has a mountain to climb, Atlas da boca is a beautiful celebration of bodies, humanity, difference and love”

— springback magazine