KANAL’s vast industrial past becomes the stage for a ritual of intimacy and transformation. The architecture, once marked by labor and machinery, is now suspended in transition, opening itself to new futures. Its renovation offers not only the renewal of a building, but also the possibility of weaving together memory, loss, and desire. Within this space, the act of loving becomes inseparable from the act of reimagining, as the site itself embodies the tension between what has been and what is still to come.
Working with practices of craniosacral therapy and bioenergetics, we approach both the building and our own bodies as repositories of memory, where traces of joy, trauma, and silence are inscribed in tissue and matter. By revisiting these residues, we attempt to reshape and release them, allowing personal and collective histories to meet. In doing so, the performance becomes a way of ritualizing our relationship, integrating past wounds into a present that is both fragile and alive, and offering the space itself as a witness and participant in this ongoing transformation.
thiago antunes 