Friction

Sophia Rodriguez and her performers explore friction as a strategy to free ourselves from the psychological and cultural baggage that prevents us from connecting with each other. Friction becomes a deliberate act of rubbing projections, beliefs, and identities against each other, as if they were pieces of dry, dead wood. FRICTION plays with the transition between different domains of connection. It's a treasure hunt in what is deep and superficial, artificial and sentimental, as well as intellectual and intimate. The sparks that will emerge from this friction will leave no one unscathed.