Fábio Noronha is a visual artist, bicycle mechanic, and professor in the Graduate Program in Cinema and Video Arts and in the Visual Arts undergraduate program (PPGCINEAV/BAV/UNESPAR). He holds a postdoctoral degree in Contemporary Artistic Processes (PPGAV/CEART/UDESC), as well as a master’s and a doctorate in Visual Poetics (UFRGS). He was a visiting researcher at the Humanities Center of Universidade Nova de Lisboa. He has participated in exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art of Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo, at MASP in São Paulo, and at MAC and MON in Curitiba. Since the 2000s, he has been distributing his works freely on the Internet (Creative Commons).
“What do you eat?”
The performance training “What do you eat?” is part of the INTOXICAÇÃO series. It explores the theme of ingestion-numbing in my artistic practice. This theme has been an area of interest in my creative processes since the mid-1990s. In this time span of approximately three decades, I have been able to observe the changes in my creative processes and conceptual interests resulting from the use of different devices. The INTOXICAÇÃO series comprises seventeen recorded performances, totaling dozens of hours of audio and video. Currently, editing this material is my research project as a tenured professor in the Master’s program in Cinema and Video Arts at the State University of Paraná (PPGCINEAV/UNESPAR). With “What do you eat?” I intend to discuss the epistemic (or poetic) disobedience of cooking. Performance training is a form of resistance that establishes a field of dispute over historical narratives: in culinary exchanges, processes of miscegenation can be seen, with borders and spaces of conflict that transcend geographical boundaries, as they exist within cultural and existential spheres. The border is like an open wound and has transformative potential.