This is not the first time that we collaborated with each other, but it is the first time that we decided to create something together: a film. Its point of departure is the installation “Square Disorder” (Appleton Square, Lisbon, 2008), the installation "Rectangle Disorder” (Leal Rios Foundation, Lisbon, 2014) by Susana Mendes Silva and the performances created by Susana Mendes Silva and Miguel Pereira — "#1 [preview]", "#2 [instruction manual]" and "#3 [finissage]" — with sound by Jari Marjamäki. But what we became interested in was not in a documentational process but rather in constructing a new visual object, especially because of the scarce telegeny of the original installations, of people's movements that most of the time resemble mimic or dance, or of what could be translated in images — as they seemed to be another form to experience something that is so physical and less visual. As we affirm in the synopsis, we tried to enter the uncanny territory of this giant, yet almost invisible, web to address the white cube space as concept, as an experiential endeavour, and the way it controls us. Through it we question unresolved dualities: the fine lines between disorder and affection, geometrical order and disturbance, rationality and magical thinking, discipline and eroticism, void and pregnant, organic and artificial. The final result is a combination of an intense co-authorship project that was developed almost as choreography between a film-maker and a visual artist.
Maria João Guardão and Susana Mendes Silva, 2014
