Tòrax, thorax

THURSDAYS OF VOICE AND WORD with Eulàlia Rovira and Anna Fontanet

Tòrax, thorax is a performative reading by Eulàlia Rovira, created in collaboration with Anna Fontanet and built around a strange encounter: a baby representing a body that cannot yet stand or talk appears before Roman vestiges embodying a legacy of domination, hierarchy and separation.

In this encounter, the piece observes how language falters when confronted with a body that knows nothing of the frameworks of Western thought or exclusionary paradigms. It is a body that has emerged from another body and still lives in the belief that the two are one and the same, or perhaps that there is no such thing as skin keeping us apart, no name that allows us to differentiate ourselves, no hinge or axis that sets us in opposition, and certainly no axis mundi, no castrum, no cardo maximus.

From this collision between an unfurling body and ruins that still uphold the world, Tòrax, thorax begins either to take shape or to lose it.