​Cyborg Sunday

About CYBORG SUNDAY  by Pedro Machado

Dinis Machado's 'Cyborg Sunday' starts with four people remembering out loud a story which will still happen. The story, about a day in the life of a group of people who live together in harmony, is told through the performers' impressions, their filtered recollections and individual sensibilities. As they strive for accuracy their memories trigger physical sensations that fleet form whilst keeping their intention. Slowly their actions get more fragmented, loosing not only meaning but physical substance. But this is no chaos, no free for all. Instead everything is ultra considerate and as their social masks fall we are guided into an imaginatively rich world, something as personal as it is ephemeral. Even when they try each other's hairs, the more practical and mundane of their actions, this is done not for effect, not for impact, they do it simply because they can do it. They can be each other without ceasing to be themselves, after all reality seems to be the fiction the create and share, they are in control. As the story unfolds, its characters including Dinis himself, cohabit intimately. They sleep, cook and eat, and film themselves having sex while the movement from the performers becomes more and more tenuous so that even direct references, to a hamburger for instance, loose their literal impact, perhaps movements are also being 'unmasked'. The only thing that seems to matter is how the diverse cast remembers and relates to the story, their personal perspective united by an external reference. If the story is the frame of the piece it is the performers who hold everything together through the possible representations that never take place. 'Cyborg Sunday' works like a seductive labyrinth where Ariadne's thread leads one not to the exit but deep inside a dense intangible world.

About CYBORG SUNDAY  by Dinis Machado

Cyborg Sunday proposes a fictional happening, on a fictional landscape, in an ambiguous future, far from easily recognisable representations and sci-fi spectacular expectations. How to open the possibilities of representation, as a strategy to open the own possibilities of futures. Far from any pretension of totality, a proposal of a landscape where pleasure is revalidated as a political idea and priority.

What can be a future landscape? What can be a happening in this fictional future, knowing that future is always a fiction in the process of becoming reality? And what and how can be a (human) body there? What can be a proposal for a possible life?

A performance is an invitation to a provisory proposal of a specific operativity. The world is not a stage but a stage is a room to try out, to test and to experiment worlds.

It happens on a fictional Sunday