Florin Flueras

"Love" explores practices for embodying love – hypersensibility, ecstatic affects, subtle affective connections with things around…, starting from the Love Body (Second Body) practice of adding an affective sensibility to everyday behaviors, a second attention that might make one drift out of the anatomic body towards a love body. The charged love bodies are inserted in "inappropriate" contexts where something else is already happening – from art spaces to supermarkets and anything in between. Their sensibility brings a contrast that can performatively interfere with the normality of those contexts, temporary zones of possibility might open. Since affects are contagious, the entire atmosphere and situation can be influenced. Artworks are usually visual, sound or conceptual. Love is affect based.

Spiritual traditions talk about a fear/control vs love dynamic – we always have the choice between the two sides and everything is decided by that. It might be a simplistic view, but it is surprisingly actual now, when our lives and politics are so much fear and control based. Although "fear" is somehow twisted to mean "love". The twist is possible because "love" is exhausted and perverted, it can mean anything, from sex to empty corporate "care" slogans. What is disappearing from "love" is the actual body experience of it. From everyday actions to contemporary dance and performance, the default perspective is of a body as instrument, as tool. We control and put our bodies to do things, to work, to create images, to express ideas, we discipline and choreograph them, and this pattern of control extends to nature, society and entire reality, with horrible consequences. Love dissolves control and instrumentalization, changing bodies and worlds in the process – from "image body" to body as a portal towards the unknown, to "love body". We don't know what a love body can do.

In some contexts Love appears uninvited - Unofficial Unworks

Performers Eliza Trefas, Martina Piazzi, Florin Flueras.

Love, notes from inside - documentation as text

Love in Unofficial Unworks at Venice Biennale (2024)