Teia is a video performance, portraying a fiction where three adult bodies, related by blood enter state in which they communicate through gigantic umbilical chords. Wearing a costume which encapsulates them entirely, the performers have to negotiate movement, space and power dynamics. As the group dances inside of a muddy pond.
Attached by belly button. Individual movements of floor work, tension their long umbilical chords - pulling, dragging and tangling - around Luiza, Giovanna and Gabriella. As images from fetal and adult spheres of nurturing are juxtaposed.
The boundaries between skin and landscape are blurred by hyper-pixel filters. While a triple structure of limbs, transposing linearity of time emerges. To illustrate cross-generational knots imprinted within fertility.
Title / Teia
Concept / Luiza Furtado
Performers / Luiza Furtado, Giovanna Furtado and Gabriella Muniz.
Camera / Vinicius Scalzilli
Sound / Luiza Furtado
Year / 2021
Teia, 2021. Video Performance Stills. @Luiza Furtado
Teia, 2021. @Vinicius Scalzilli