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Cuts transforms a commercial craft service into a gift while also exploring a series of troubling disjunctions between action and context, documentary and performance, director and subject, fine art and craft, and artwork and daily life. The activity of haircutting is performed in a variety of atypical spaces in Rio de Janeiro, including a community garden in the favela of Manginhas, the beach in Copacabana, and a highrise apartment/recording studio. The structural formality of the piece throws into relief a celebration of intimacy between people, the work of the hand or bodily intelligence, and spontaneity.
Cuts transforms a commercial craft service into a gift while also exploring a series of troubling disjunctions between action and context, documentary and performance, director and subject, fine art and craft, and artwork and daily life. The activity of haircutting is performed in a variety of atypical spaces in Rio de Janeiro, including a community garden in the favela of Manginhas, the beach in Copacabana, and a highrise apartment/recording studio. The structural formality of the piece throws into relief a celebration of intimacy between people, the work of the hand or bodily intelligence, and spontaneity.