Garimpo is a Portuguese word that refers to artisanal mining, which is a form of marginal extractivist practice that searches through manual methods for different minerals, precious stones and mainly the gold. This practice has produced an environmental impact in the Amazon Forest of Brazil and Venezuela. The Garimpeiros are those people who look for gold using different techniques among which they use mercury as a means to extract gold. Ironically from the gay scene, the Golden Shower experience is associated with sexual pleasure and fetish, just as the search for gold; it’s a constant search for comfort and pleasure. My proposal is to establish a connection between both realities that are part of my world through a metaphor, a representation through materials and actions. As a migrant from Venezuela, being outside my country I worry about the social, economic, political and environmental problems that are part of the country’s crisis. As a gay man I equally seek to satisfy my needs and pleasure, as well as the search for gold as a form of satisfaction. The golden confetti is a symbol of goldness and it will be covering all my body. The idea is to uncover the body with the help of the audience using a portable vacuum machine, this action is a way of body- archeology that will be discovered by the audience, the content in the vacuum machine will be used to create slides as a part of an archive of all the process. Golden Confetti represents celebration/joy and will be covering my body as a way to show that this search of comfort covers our minds in many opportunities of our lives.
Photos Anna Maskava
18062023
Riga Performance Festival
K2 corridor
Latvijas Mākslas Akadēmija
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