A body confronts its own image. Through dance, video and sound, I QUERY / this body is not an answer explores how identity is shaped by gazes, norms and ideas about gender, the body and belonging – and what emerges when they begin to shift.
This body will be there forever. Not this one. But another. But the same. But different. Not at all. An arm. A hand. A leg. Skin defining the borders. Separating inside from outside. It is only materia. I want it to look different. The form. This way. And not another. They are only parts.
Tools. To move.
Fingers, nails, veins, bones, teeth, saliva, pelvis, genitals. Only parts. Tools. To breathe. They could be free. And I did not want to be this. And I did not want to be something else. And I did not want to be anything.
A body standing inside its own image. A shifting figure where flesh and image fail to coincide. In that gap is an ever-changing body that refuses to stay fixed. It is what it is. It is everything. It is nobody. Nobody was always the problem.
Identity is a capitalistic demand.
This body is not an answer, but a field of possibilities.
Fabio Liberti, graduated at Codarts (NL) and based in Copenhagen. After a career as dancer across Europe, in 2018 Fabio decides to give full focus to the creation of his own work. He funded MUOVI through which he created the independent works #ASIFILOOKEDLIKEME, As if, I have missed myself and What did I just do? His works have been performed at numerous festivals throughout Europe received several awards such as 1st prize at Rotterdam Duet. Choreography Competition 2018 (NL). He also creates works for dance companies such as Skånes Dansteater (SE), Danish Dance Theatre (DK), Landerer&Company (DE) among others.
