POLO is a subjective device of re-mediation of the meta-relationship between half-real and half-fictional characters Robocop (RBC) and Angel (NGL). The process focuses on the collection and (over)exposition of experiences, gestures, poses, bodies, documentations and sounds found by the artists. These different elements are generated through their interactions with space (the city where they meet), bodies (other artists, friends, lovers), as well as the particularities, tensions and attractions of their own relationship.

A queer lens is used as a filter of observation to detect the ethics/values of the social-cultural context where POLO activates. The artists address it through a corporeal practice, which also involves digital body supplements. They investigate and operate within online and offline settings.

Since Francisco is based in Montreal (CA) and Sergio in Vienna (AU), POLO has been developed through intensive working sessions in the cities of Venice, Berlin, Montreal and NYC. The next encounter is scheduled for the end of July 2020 in Prague, on a residency at CrossAttic Club and Alta Centre, curated by Petr Dlouhý. 

With the two artists living on different continents -therefore different timezones, cultures and geopolitical contexts- the work has had to deal with physical absence from the very beginning. Yet POLO -as polarity- aims to the closest form of proximity. Sergio and Francis have sorted out different strategies and ways of corresponding to each other during the time they have worked together. In POLO the experience of "connecting” unfolds as friendship or trust-based participation and a common consensus.  This “connection-ship” makes the artists self-aware about their bodies, the social realm, the cultural network and the environment and allows them to be together beyond the distance. In other words, connection-ship makes the work possible. Without it, no form of correspondence is even possible.

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