BACONIAN BODIES:
THE INNER PASSING OF TIME (2021)

Husain Amer, a Canadian photographer, shot these photographs during my performance of The Inner Passing of Time performance in Dali, China in November 2021. At the end of the show he told me, "As soon as you started dancing I couldn't stop shooting. I didn't have the time to change settings, so many photographs could have the wrong focus or light. I'm going to give you the USB with all the photographs and you do with them as you wish."

When I saw the files I found many interesting photographs with a clear focus, light, etc, very good as a document of this specific show. But it was the "others" that attracted me the most: those photographs that were not clear, that were not focused, those that caught the outer movement blurring the image, but most important to me, those what I believe caught the "inner movement" of my work on stage.

I decided to work with those "errors" with Francis Bacon's work in mind when processing each of the photos. Bacon's images were a very important influence in Hijikata's inspiration for his Butoh-notation, and it is now a very good inspiration for this series of the project I've named "Baconian bodies".