Consubstantiation

CONSUBSTANTIATION is a queer drag performance. Displacing from binary gender and sexual identities the performance works in the creation of an imaginary of a both gender and sexual "in-betweenness" and its embodiment: a human body approaching an object-like gender.

Embracing objecthood as a mandala for a third gender, a figure enters a simultaneous and paradoxical process of self-objectification and somatic disappearance, a cancellation of its subjectivity. Machado searches for a parallel gender imaginary foreign to the mainstream sedimented pop aesthetics of queer. An exercise of displacement where: glittery costumes give place to processes of hacking the body with geometrical objects of concrete materials;  stylized choreographies give place to uncanny movement patterns; pop songs give place to multifarious and blurry identity narratives sang as a dodecaphonic opera, that produce more of an incomplete fiction than a narrative legitimation of the self. This figure invests in uncanny conditionings and deformations of its body, finding in materiality, geometry, and plasticity a process of questioning the body in its self-anthropomorphic representation, and like that reclaiming a body of a queer materiality: that refuses to perform linear heterosexuality, maleness and anthropomorphism, and refuses paradoxically also to abandon it.

Performances
21, 23, 24 Feb 2018 // Weld // Stockholm,SE
1 Mar 2018 // METAL // Peterborough, UK
3 Mar 2018 // Chisenhale // London, UK
14>15 Apr 2018 // NAVE // Santiago, Chile
25 May 2018 // Skissernas Museum // Lund, SE
19 Jul 2018 // Backlit // Nottingham, UK
3 Aug 2018 // JUNTA Festival // Teresina, BR
2 Nov 2018 // FIDANC Festival // Évora, PT

16 Nov '19 // JUNTA Festival // Teresina, BR
4 Jan '19 // Konsthall // Stockholm, SE

15 > 17 Mar '19 // SESC Av Paulista // S. Paulo, BR
15>16 May '19 // Danshallerne @ Wearhouse9 // Copenhagen, DK

26 > 27 Sep '20 // La Fundicion // Bilbao, ES

1 Oct '20 // S. Luis Teatro Municipal // Lisbon, PT

29 Oct '20 // Festival ContraDança // Covilhã, PT