It was through this kind of space, and this kind of fictionalised emotional memory, that I was able to communicate with Doina for the first time. Doina, a lucid nightmare, made out of stolen art only.
Doina is the name of this woman, who exists between dream and fiction.
trigger warning gender violence
Butoh, according to Ko Murobushi, allows you to enter a space in your body where you have access to something akin to collective memory. It is in this place that our imagination sometimes fictionalises emotions whose names we do not know, generational traumas. When these emotional fictions meet something similar to memories, we don't quite know which lives; messages, images, desires, fears... come to appear.
It was through this kind of space, and this kind of fictionalised emotional memory, that I was able to communicate with Doina for the first time. Doina, a lucid nightmare, made out of stolen art only.
Doina is the name of this woman, who exists between dream and fiction, who is part of my imagination and my memory, as well as somehow narrating a story that has to do with the geopolitics of my homeland.
What you are going to see below is nothing more than an amalgam of unconnected, incoherent references, but which for me sow some kind of emotional genealogy that help me to get to know Doina, help me to draw her, to place her somewhere in history. I present to you traces of Doina.
