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DRAWING > DRAWINGS 2011 for project ALL WAS CAPTURED (even the movements of the goat)
 
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ALEXANDRA DO CARMO
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– So, the whole place was full of chairs and suddenly a woman starts banging with her umbrella, bang bang bang! ‘It’s not right! It’s not right!’ and, ‘Call the police, call the police’, and suddenly the audience became really tense, ‘She’s mad, she’s crazy, what' on earth happened here...’
ALEXANDRA DO CARMO
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She terrified me, you know? I was scared that she was going to die spurting blood all over the place, you know what I mean? And god knows what else... cut herself to pieces... It was suffocating... But I couldn’t leave, I was rooted to the spot. I mean, I was completely mesmerised. And I was left with the images that I can still see today.
ALEXANDRA DO CARMO
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– She was way beyond us, you know? It was really strange, a really strange sensation, we weren’t watching a performance, we were experiencing the cuts with her, you know what I mean? It was something I’ve never felt before in my life, it was the most powerful thing I’ve ever seen.
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– My memory of it is that it was a piece... It was an installation, and I didn’t know anything about that then. But now that’s the perception I have of it, it was an installation and so it was something sculptural, the space was really really bare...
ALEXANDRA DO CARMO
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– That was her art! There were things that you find on the beach, old things, flip-flops, bottles, rubbish you find on the beach. She had really old things down there, old flip-flops – they’re all things you find on the beach, right? She brought it all and arranged it, but it took days to collect it all…
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