INSTRUCCIONES (Capilla)

Abstract

INSTRUCCIONES (Capilla), a performance by Margaux Schwarz in which, departing from the suggestive architecture of the space, she reflects upon issues of transparency, intimacy and power. INSTRUCCIONES (Capilla) is a performance where a woman, equipped with a headset and earphones, creates a perimetral movement while repeating a pre-recorded voice flowing in her ears. While walking, she addresses a series of interactions with different people who are not presented to us, akin to a kind of training, which is in turns condescending, mothering or authoritarian when she’s not herself dominated. These instructions are all given in the name of an unspecified «We». Can the repetition of language, intensity and tone reveal invisibilized contracts between subjects, economies and social roles? Through this question, Schwarz interrogates whether it is possible to activate new interactions between a collective form of intimacy and social power–dynamics.