Monday, 16 June, 2025 - 10:25

All The Rivers Dance Residency: Boiling Water

Sandra E. Blatterer
Márcio K. Canabarro
Marc Lohr
Savio Debernardis

On a quest to be less self-referential and more aware of the unavoidable process of fictionalising reality—through hopes, fears, projections, and expectations—we initiate a process of auto-fictional co-writing as a radical form of honesty and a mindfulness practice. In this process, a series of stories emerge, forming a cosmogony that we have been exploring through a variety of artistic mediums, creating a body of work that challenges the linearity and taxonomy of time and media. Through our hybrid methodology—including auto-fiction, vinyl narrative pieces, scripts, and

visual traces—we speculate a form of access that does not depend on the supremacy of the visual, but rather invites multiplicity, fragmentation, and sensory heterogeneity. The artwork exists across formats: it can be read, heard, seen, and felt, but never entirely apprehended through any singular modality. This refusal of completeness mirrors the experience of loss itself, where meaning becomes distributed across affect, memory, and fantasy. In this way, the single evening performance is only a middle point of a living project in which the work opens a dialogue with audiences and allows the research to outlive the often short-lived nature of production-based contexts. To make it more tactile and to physicalise auto-fictional landscapes, we also entered a process of creating—or looking for—evidence from the stories' contexts, surroundings, and characters. In this framework, dance becomes part of the emotional landscape, finding its voice through a series of details observable in the audience’s setup, in a narrator pressed into a vinyl, in the visual and graphic elements of the space, in cinematic gestures, in a forged atelier, in fragments of a living room, in memories of a particular area and its vegetation, and in old photographs that could belong to anyone’s family—evoking a common language shaped by loss as a formative human experience. This effort to multiply the voice of the artistic research makes it more clear that art is not made in isolation. It is shaped by cooperation, whether as reflection or reaction to socio-cultural and local environments, or by its diffusion into various expertises and aesthetic sensibilities in its coming to being. Cooperation emerges in writing, collecting fragments, narrations, sound-building, conceptualising space, and treating it as an instalative dance exhibit, …—in creating a hyper-object dependent on multiple people and their perception. 

First part of a two-part residncy, The 2nd part with a public showing will happen in September 25.

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