Tu nous entends la Honte ? Tu nous entends ?
Si tu nous entends fais gaffe quand tu rentres chez toi toute seule le soir
On pourrait avoir envie de te refaire la mâchoire avec des objets en métal
Ou de te laver la tête avec du plomb, qu’est-ce que t’en dis ?

Tu nous entends la Tristesse ? Tu nous entends ?
Si tu nous entends, c’est que toi aussi, tu vas bientôt faire ton sac
Prendre la première à gauche, deuxième à droite,
puis encore à gauche et aller niquer ta race.
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FAUVE

I still find it odd that you should come in and watch a show from your seat. Is reality inside or outside? Shoot. Shoot your mouth. Shoot with your hands. Shoot into the heart.

Sorrow. Shoot. Rage. Tenderness. Shoot. Life. Music. Shoot. We may end up talking about ourselves and laughing loudly, perhaps without knowing why. We may bore holes in the walls for the pleasure of tasting our own sweat... on the street, things are getting ugly and in here... perhaps also. Music with which to season all this. Noise that doesn’t let us hear what’s said by the girl who looks at us while opening her mouth. You could record this live and watch it carefully from the safety of your homes. Perhaps it will touch you more if I’m not there.

Sentences I like that I’ve copied from various sources: I have a difficult relationship with reality. We’re in the middle of a Festival of Problems. Shooting is just a routine, a series of steps endlessly repeated. When the circuits of the brain are switched on, the circuits for violence are switched off. Letting off a firearm creates the same chemical reaction in the brain as a passionate kiss. To have a predisposition for hatred. Nature doesn’t help us, but culture hasn’t saved us either. Thinking positive to alleviate pain has the opposite effect. Love is a delusion that should never cease to exist.
Give us this day our daily sentences, O Lord.

BIO
Agnés Mateus (Barcelona 1967)
he studied journalism and theatre simultaneously until she entered the world of performance, some years ago now, alongside Txiqui Berraondo and Manuel Lillo in Barcelona. The first few years she trained in drama and dance. But there is one particular date that defines her career: 2006, when the Colectivo General Eléctrica was created. She was part of the creative nucleus of General Eléctrica until its dissolution eight years later. Performer and multidisciplinary artist, she has worked with Juan Navarro, Roger Bernat, Rodrigo García and Simona Levi, and continues to collaborate with them on various projects.

“Mateus is the staging of this essentiality. A rigour born of a sense of responsibility and a freedom that makes performance one of the many forms of expression she could imagine”
Juan Carlos Olivares