Suspended

Suspended is a proposal for an aesthetic experience from a situation in which a non-binary body with binary female gender passability (Katiana Gonçales Rangel), hangs themselves up using their own clothes to a horizontal bar, at approximately 3.3 feet from the ground. Katiana goes to the bar, takes off each piece of clothing they are wearing and binds themselves with them to the bar. They stay there. The process of binding themselves and remaining hanging imposes certain limitations for the movement that, in turn, enable the experience of unusual movements. Such movements inhabit a fine line between pain arising from the bonds, the stress caused by the effort to build a web of support, and the rapt trance of some positions that become paradoxically comfortable. It is an aesthetic that articulates pleasure and pain, and also evokes a sense of elevation. In the mode of the contemporary sublime, it provides an experience of what is inaudible and invisible that the bodies reveal when their most primitive impulses are accessed. Suspended was created by Katiana Rangel and the musician João Paulo Nascimento.