"Patricia" performance by Christina Reinhardt

“Patricia” is a polyphonic physical duet, that was supposed to be a trio. Patricia, the non-existent third performer, decentres the binary relation of the two performers. She functions as the united consciousness that moves them, a container and an absence that carries transformation, relationality, and the lack of fixed identity. The two performers set off on a physical and vocal trip together, constantly changing, building profound dynamics, challenging each other, and branching out into multiple fleeting situations. They eat each other’s words immediately and spit them out differently. Two characters with different personalities, backgrounds and worldviews form a multilayered bond navigating moments of chaos, tenderness, misunderstanding, and synchronicity. Travelling from opera to pop culture, from critical dialogues and slang to shared explosive laughs and cries, and from lunatic caricatures to rational individuals, the performance emerges as an associative and citational ritual of relating to the world through each other.

Patricia is the future

a foundation

the one we gossip about

a pharmaceutical brand

the sky

the thing that moves our bodies

the friend who’s room we’re in

a virus

the wall

another word to say you’re cancelled

a friend who died

something in everyone

our food

the one who choreographs the world

our friend that left us

the one who operates machines

a thing that one of us had to spit

a thing

the friend who’s submarine we’re in

a father

a mother

a friend who looks like a bird

an actress that had a little role in a Nicolas Cage movie