Michelle Moura about “Inconsumivel” or the story of a box
Where do they meet?
They are called “Inconsumivel.coma”. They first met at Danceweb 2009 in Vienna, and as they felt that there was something powerful in this first meeting, they started to look for ways that could make their relations exist even if they are far from each other. “Inconsumivel.coma” includes a lot of people who were part of Danceweb, but the girls who are actually carrying this project now are Acerina (Spain), Ana Trincao (Portugal), Elisabete Finger (Brasil), Cristina (Portugal/Amsterdam).
So, some weeks after finishing Danceweb, the dancewebbers organized a one week residency at “Oficinas do Convento” in Montemor-o-novo/Portugal to think together about the best way of self-organization. They needed to create a strategy to stay connected in a creative and productive way beyond geographical distances. Basically, “Inconsumivel” has a concrete territory of exchanges, meetings, and tenderness that is a BOX. And the box is mobile.
Who is the leader, and does everyone share his/her vision?
There is no leader. In September 2009 - the moment that “Inconsumivel” emerged – a small group negotiated ideas and “tools” in order to concretize the desire to maintain some exchange between them. Leaders? What is interesting for me is to see the potential of this proposition that they built together – encounter + practice – that can invite them to share artistic and political visions.
Where does their money come from?
Once created, “Inconsumivel.coma” took into consideration that the actions of its members should happen “without money” , or at least just with the amount of money that they individually could provide.
So, now it's time to explain how the thing works…
“Inconsumivel” has a “dispositive” that creates possibilities of communication. The dispositive is a “box”! This box will be the container of “artistic objects”, in the largest possible sense. The box will always travel with some of the members of “Inconsumivel”. These have time to work on something to dispose inside the box, and thereafter choose its next destination. It is a sort of mail art! The exchange of the box will stop once there is no space anymore to add anything else. There is no deadline. Things can happen slowly or quickly … there is no external duration frame. Also, there is no desire to make any final object, no piece, no performance, nothing that could be sold.
Do they do what they say they do?
They have a blog to communicate and describe what is happening to the box.
How do they differ from a group therapy?
I think that everybody needs somebody!
I think that the first meeting at Danceweb was a quick affair, and “Inconsumivel” is the tentative to go beyond the superficiality of this first affair. I think that they see that there is something powerful when they are together. They find pleasure in being together. Some meetings are really intense.
I think it's important to define conditions for keeping in touch and more than that, go deeper into relations. If one knows everybody in the “dance world” , but does not develop anything with anyone else, one is always alone. It can be exciting to meet different people all the time, but to increase the quality of the relation time will be required.
The name of the emerging artists' initiative you were talking about and the one you are part of:
The “leading group”: Acerina Ramos Amador, Elisabete Finger, Cristina Planas Leitao, Ana Trincao. Their website ist at http://inconsumivel.wordpress.com/.
I am part of Couve-Flor Minicomunidade Artistica Mundial (Cauliflower Mini Worldwide Artistic Community), from Curitiba/Brazil. We are: Candida Montes, Cristiane Bouger, Elisabete Finger, Gustavo Bitencourt, Michelle Moura, Neto Machado and Ricardo Marinelli. Our website is www.couve-flor.org.
