What to do? Rehearsal Map N° 1. Weaving between maps, territories and archives

Abstract

This article is an invitation to think, from writing, the process of making a performance, in which I develop some ideas that interweave the concepts of maps, territories and archives. This weaving brings together, in a back and forth through the terrain of memories, a series of experiences of my artistic production carried out between 2013 and 2019, some linked to performance art and others to the order of the familiar. The arachnid mode and the idea of event allowed me to deploy, in a trace, these productions. In each performance I set up devices that I call maps, in which I manipulate objects and materials that are remnants and souvenirs of something that happened at another time, and that make up something similar to an archive. I try to elaborate an interweaving between the experience of writing and that of making the performance.