Something is Approaching

In this new work, Carolina Mendonça continues her investigation into violence — not in its immediate explosion, but in its afterlife. Something is Approaching looks beyond the moment of the violent act to trace its long-term effects: the way violence settles into muscle, shapes attention, distorts imagination. If Zones of Resplendence imagined an army rising against sexual violence, this new piece lingers with what violence implants in us: tension, rumination, a sort of damnation, a muscular readiness.

What if our muscles are not only sites of trauma, but also of resistance? What if they have been rehearsing — quietly, daily — for the moment of return? For the moment to fight back? What type of stories are stuck to our tissues that could be released by a single jolt, a sudden movement —  a bullet?

This is a choreography of muscular dreams. Bodies that once froze begin to stir — charged by years of imagined confrontations. Ghostly bodies find a space where their haunting can pause. Dreaming becomes a kind of training — a rehearsal for defense. Choreography, a way of sharpening.