Local de açao

[The Place of Action] 1978
Video, computer animation. Color, electronic blue on black field, then performance
Sound : Music- synth-pop, citation from Kraftwerk, Autobahn, 1974, concept album
Duration : 1’51″                        
Camera :  Davi Geiger for the performance section

Summary
Brazil’s isolation is evoked through Anna Bella Geiger’s expressive cartography. 

Overview
On a series of geometrically stylized maps, by way of animation, South America detaches from the map of the rest of the world. To underscore the sensibility of separation, the artist adds a performative action.  She bites at a piece of bread until there is a hole the shape of the continent.

Anna Bella Geiger reflects
“[…] I had made a video where I eat a slice of bread, Action Site. As I was eating, I saw a piece of a map. So I tried, in a strange exercise of eating, to perfect the shape of the map of Brazil. And I thought, ‘If I eat a little bit more, I will get to Latin America’”.      
Interview, Hans Ulrich Obrist: entrevistas brasileiras. Vol. I. 2019. (p. 189).