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"Aquela velha questão do som e da imagem"2000
"That Old Question About Sound and Image"

Uma paisagem que se move (através das bobines encontradas num cinema velho e devoluto), um observador fixo e uma banda sonora.

© João Bento

[pause] It is an experience that emerges upon and with an open me (us). I use the word ‘magic’ for kin experiences — it is like a visceral blow to the whole body

to be alive. It is a deeply relational opening to life. I notice the unnameable as a fertile field in which to engage with the invisible as visible. How do imaginations become matter? What is matter? What matters? To sustain

experiences that resize one’s body [spirit] with an undeniable sense of beingness, unfolding provisory and endless processes that I claim as weather-beings. Fantastic creatures, invisible anatomies, worlds, auras, spells and sensuousness, #beings-in-contact that (re)claim, reform, and redraw reality as matter and beyond. #Beings-in-contact as possibilities for subtle/ethical dimensions to emerge (multiple-intra-beings), keen to interact tactfully with each other, but that are (always) in relation. Sensory affect also generates aesthetical dimensions. What I imagine affects my physiology.

© João Bento

“Fun Plays Piano” piece from João Bento @ DOCH/ New Performative Practices - Stokholm 2019
in the contest of the project Practicing Being(s) by André Soares

Love (universe) and our relations (engagement) with-it/kin-to, may work like this;
... Iⁿ(we) get dreams/visions, then emotional messages and impulses; which I(we) can listen to via my(our) instinct... ie; this person does not feel right for me anymore, this life path, this job, this flat, this way of thinking etc.
When one gets this feeling, this is a great time to work/move and take action/change_trans-form, to get in touch with.
If I (we) don't trust/touch, the messages will come into my(our) body and cause pain, anxiety, depression, segregation. The being gets called! This is when I(we) am(are) invited even more to make a change_ to unfold life, to hug/embrace. If I(we) keep resisting or neglecting after ignoring my(our) instinct and the messages my(our) being_ body/soul knows deep down needs to happen but I(we) am(are) fearful to jump, to fall, to risk, to do, to become, then the 'macro/micro cosmos' will make/develop a crisis to force/take me(us) to change, to trans-form, to love again.
(that is when the 'messages' become physical/ symptoms and have the highest possibility to cause major chaos/suffering in life)
I(we) work/am/practice best when I(we) can attune with/into my (our) instinct_gut feeling and dance/do/make change before it enters from spiritual to mental and then physical and take responsibility before my(our) physical world forces me(us) to. Weatherbbeings are resilient and benevolent to transformations_other wor(l)ds.
There/here/with-in are ultimately no negatives here/there/with-out ; the cosmos/organism/being/weather/seasons/landscape is(are) in constant change of death and rebirth... it is just a choice/click/contact for all of us(me) on how long and how much we(I) have to suffer before we(I) listen to our(my) inner guidance system/beingness and face/relate our(my) fears and learn the lessons we(I) need to learn in this life and grow as spiritual beings in human form.
To re-form. To re-love. To re-member. To re-trans-form.

André Soares

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