AGENCY FOR UNREALIZED PROJECTS
Most part of my drawings are studies for non-performed actions. I began making them as previews for the documentation process, strategies of framing the sequences of small, often unnoticed, performances. Gradually, these protocol drawings became virtual substitutes of actions that I could not, and often didn’t want to, carry out. Representation through drawing became a way of rehearsing the gestures, the procedures, the images and the temporal aspects in a virtual plan of achievements, without the consequences and the public exposure of its actual performance, like the trainings of car racers and musicians, often imagining in anticipation, as a motor contagion, the unrealized performance. My drawings are, in a sense, unhappy performatives and calculated rumors. References of the images: PauloLuisAlmeida1.jpg: Flies (Study for Unrealized Action), 2005. Oil and pencil on tracing papers, 76,5 x 56,5 cm.
PauloLuisAlmeida2.jpg: Panoptics (Study for Unrealized Action). Oil and pencil on two sheets of paper, 113 x 76,5 cm
AGENCY FOR UNREALIZED PROJECTS
Most part of my drawings are studies for non-performed actions. I began making them as previews for the documentation process, strategies of framing the sequences of small, often unnoticed, performances. Gradually, these protocol drawings became virtual substitutes of actions that I could not, and often didn’t want to, carry out. Representation through drawing became a way of rehearsing the gestures, the procedures, the images and the temporal aspects in a virtual plan of achievements, without the consequences and the public exposure of its actual performance, like the trainings of car racers and musicians, often imagining in anticipation, as a motor contagion, the unrealized performance. My drawings are, in a sense, unhappy performatives and calculated rumors. References of the images: PauloLuisAlmeida1.jpg: Flies (Study for Unrealized Action), 2005. Oil and pencil on tracing papers, 76,5 x 56,5 cm.
PauloLuisAlmeida2.jpg: Panoptics (Study for Unrealized Action). Oil and pencil on two sheets of paper, 113 x 76,5 cm