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Carro Bomba - Feitosamaos/F.A.Q
There are moments when anything can happen. Specially a tragedy. For the feitoamãos/F.A.Q. group, the gen- eral feeling of the imminence of an attack – be it in a street in the Middle East, be it in a car stuck in São Paulo traffic – has reached an unheard of degree of palpability after September 11 2001. Carro-Bomba speaks of the instant in which the notion of danger has become unquestionable, to the point we desire it to resume quickly, so that life can go on. The preparation for an unpleasant conclusion is the circumstance that the artists’ collective exposes in their performance, which makes use of smoke, projections, noises and the crowding of people.
The idea does not derive solely from a meditation on terrorist actions.In its triviality, everyday life also presents situations of risk. “Banal objects can contain some form of violence, as in the insecurity a boy playing with fireworks feels because he knows that the firecracker in his hands is going to explode. This is the feeling of terror that is expected and even desired”, explains video artist Lucas Bambozzi,member of the group. “We start from the notion that we do not know how to relate to all these terror issues. We, Brazilians, routinely live with equally tragic forms of violence.”
The suspension of the space-time relationship caused by all forms of violence is the point of this performance. “Taking as a metaphor the dramatic expectation that arises in the imminence of a happening of this nature, we intend to translate the uncomfortable feeling inherent to the many forms of violence that surround us.”
F.A.Q. is an offshoot of the feitoamãos collective, which has produced collaborative research projects on the languages and possibilities of electronic art since 1999. Besides Bambozzi, the group is formed by André Amparo, André Melo, Claudio Santos, Marcelo Braga, Rodrigo Minelli and Ronaldo Gino. “Our presentations have always touched on themes relating to politics,to violence and to urban daily life.With Carro-Bomba, we aim to question the politics of violence and violence in politics, or the forms of political action that discard cultural, religious, racial and gender differences as fundamental elements for humanity.”
ASSOCIAÇÃO CULTURAL VIDEOBRASIL. "15th Videobrasil International Electronic Art Festival - 'Performance.'": 6th to 25th September 2005, pp. 128 and 129, São Paulo, Brazil, 2005.