Research title
“What do you eat?”

Abstract
The performance training “What do you eat?” is part of the INTOXICAÇÃO series. It explores the theme of ingestion-numbing in my artistic practice. This theme has been an area of ​​interest in my creative processes since the mid-1990s. In this time span of approximately three decades, I have been able to observe the changes in my creative processes and conceptual interests resulting from the use of different devices. The INTOXICAÇÃO series comprises seventeen recorded performances, totaling dozens of hours of audio and video. Currently, editing this material is my research project as a tenured professor in the Master’s program in Cinema and Video Arts at the State University of Paraná (PPGCINEAV/UNESPAR). With “What do you eat?” I intend to discuss the epistemic (or poetic) disobedience of cooking. Performance training is a form of resistance that establishes a field of dispute over historical narratives: in culinary exchanges, processes of miscegenation can be seen, with borders and spaces of conflict that transcend geographical boundaries, as they exist within cultural and existential spheres. The border is like an open wound and has transformative potential.

Supervision
Orlando Vieira Francisco