Contexto: Francisco Camacho + Meg Stuart & Vera Mota

How real is our now? 
There is no stable territory or linear timeline. On stage, bodies appear fragmented, in emotional drifts between gesture, objects and their traces. What writing has been imprinted on our bodies? And how do they imprint it on the space they occupy? 
After 30 years of collaborations, the duo Francisco Camacho and Meg Stuart meet again for the duet Steal You for a Moment (2024). Inspired by the mysterious Nuragic ruins of Sardinia, and the dialog between body, space-time, matter and its absences, Stuart and Camacho listen to a past, which can also be a future, or a time outside of time. 
For an expanded look at choreography and the visual arts, we propose a three-way conversation between the performers and the artist Vera Mota, who choreographed IM with Francisco Camacho in 2009. With a practice based on the politics of the body, Vera Mota combines performance, sculpture and drawing. How real is our now? And how can our bodies generate meaning?

The work of Vera Mota (1982) summons up a strong material component, while affirming the body as an almost always indispensable agent. Her artistic practice, rooted in sculpture, drawing and performance, develops around the politics of the body, attempting to challenge its hierarchies, functions and status, as well as its relationship with other material (bodies). Performance emerges as a means of production, composition or even staging, promoting and equating the participation of the body as a generative methodology and axis for conceptual formulations.

Curated by Alexandra Balona

The conversation will be conducted in English.

dstgroup is a patron of Theatro Circo’s Mediation Program.