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Ana~Mixinga

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About Me

Trickster: well I can't hide that I've been living in London for the past 8 years...but I am as Portuguese as foreign in the little village I was born.I find fascinating some of the universal aspects of culture, identities and systems. The more subjectivity the better. There is wisdom and health in all that comes simply and clearly.I have the name of Ana~Mixinga because I want to use this space to communicate openly the many complexities and layers of my interests...and obviously meet mmm people.The name - Ana~Mixinga - part real part fiction represents a naïve and playful childhood state of mind where inhibition is something capricious and transparent. An aunt used to call me that in the most odd situations: when I would complain about something that made me sad and cry or when I misbehaved about something that was considered holly.The name stayed. And that matters. The journey follows up to here.~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Em portugues o textinho ficará diferente. Quem é bilingue tem o beneficio das duas leituras e conhecerá as maneiras diferentes de abordar uma personagem creada por mim. Ana-Mixinga já vive em londres há 8 anos mas é bem portuguesa.A Ana é fácil de ler, é um anagrama por natureza e por isso é verdadeira. A Mixinga apresenta-se num estado de espirito introspectivo relacionado com o passado: uma menina-mulher que tambem é ás vezes é mulher-menina. Uma tia minha atribuiu-me esta expressao e assim ficou. O mais importante para mim era a forma como ela o dizia. Era quase a cantar…mixiiiiinga...Aqui interessa-me as mais diversas comunidades e identidades. A Ana e universalista e por isso facil de conectar-se...e interessa-lhe fazer pontes; a Mixinga é menina boa ouvinte e ás vezes destemida: em processo de revolucao. Ai, ai, ai...quem sabe sabe.A Ana assume que gosta de 'cliche-culturais e pseudo-intelectos' como fotografar, fazer ioga, meditacao, escrever e até divagar na psicologia. Assume que sabe algumas ideas filosoficas-feministas no contexto pos-modernista e pos-estruturalista mas nao exibe na linguagem, prefere as vezes ter uma posicao reveladora com o que lhe rodeia: SEJA O QUE FOR. A Mixinga diz: álas que se faz tarde!

My Interests

Skirts, whrils and loops. Beads-melodies, natural scales, throats and veins. Quite speakers, listeners, whissspers. Statues that flow. Encounters: our jouneys.The great love and the cicle of Donating.Watersheds and water(in)colours...Haircuts, lipsticks, the Arquitecture of the self and The Profane.Eros+Mad(H)elénne: The Origins of A Tragedy.

Movies:

malhmalbaf film house (iran) carnage-delphine gleize (france) respiro-emanuele crialese (italy) anatomy of hell-catherine breillat (france) 400 coupes-truffault (france) alphaville-goddar (france) ladri di biciclette-victorio de sica (italy) the battle of the algiers-gilo pontecorvo (algeria) bambozelled-spike lee (u.s.) ten-abbas kiarostami (iran) tryology-saatchi ray (india) chris marker (france)

Books:

way of being- Carl rogers ways of seeing - Jonh Berger white - rychard dyer the second sex - simone de beauvoir all that is solid melts into air - marshall bergman open veins of latin america - galeano fantasmas e fantasias imperiais no imaginario portugues contemporaneo - margarida ribeiro e Ana Paula Ferreira nights at the circus - Angela Carter

Heroes:

Writers that play, photographers that listen, befrienders and learners while teaching. Handmade-(g)lovers; suns and daughters and silent quite singers.

My Blog

Trickeries

Gentile lioness With hidden curls in your ears and travelled green eyes, your journey I felt. Skin is tender in your giving So sunny is your belief. Floors and flowers are spreading Strawberries pi...
Posted by Ana~Mixinga on Sat, 19 Apr 2008 03:37:00 PST

Memorias no bolso

A muralha estende-se. O sal sinto-o nas pontas dos dedos. Procuro o que ja comeu. Ai...o sal desta agua, ...a agua deste rio, ...o rio desta margem de cá! Ha um homem que passa. Outro corpo fascin...
Posted by Ana~Mixinga on Sun, 13 Apr 2008 10:18:00 PST

Gestures are alive - London

I seat with hands open with the past and i rest the memories and the sensations about the people that i met. (...) No particular devotion to any i met in particular:  me being there wa...
Posted by Ana~Mixinga on Wed, 02 Apr 2008 03:06:00 PST

~ Meu Xaliah ~

Xaila-me sal, Xaila-me, mmmm...   Xaile:  abranda-me!   Brazao-xaile, Da roda nao sais Xaile meu, meu xaliah......
Posted by Ana~Mixinga on Wed, 02 Apr 2008 02:01:00 PST

the matters that seem questions to me

What matters in colour? What matters in a new home? What matters in seating and resting?   What matters in arriving and saying your name? What matters in finding? What matters in staying?   ...
Posted by Ana~Mixinga on Wed, 02 Apr 2008 01:41:00 PST

My ems

Waters run in me for Celestina Magali Mena Florinda as My mother-Helens: Hard Makers of work, of love-milk.   In Their usage of their bodies I feel Alive. Poetry erupts in my breasts for your ...
Posted by Ana~Mixinga on Sat, 15 Mar 2008 11:10:00 PST

answering back

  not ony me... but a writer that plays, a photographer that listens, a befriender, a learner while teaching. A lover of hands and a silent quite singer.  
Posted by Ana~Mixinga on Sun, 10 Feb 2008 02:45:00 PST

Poesia Sufi

In love, nothing exists between heart and heart.Speech is born out of longing,True description from the real taste.The one who tastes, knows;the one who explains, lies.How can you describe the true fo...
Posted by Ana~Mixinga on Tue, 22 Jan 2008 02:17:00 PST

Permanent Request

Take my hand,the transcendence I will be aware,the colours of me,eyes in eyes.Take time and look: hands touching new again...we are never the same.I am not me never again.Embrace - we are - never the ...
Posted by Ana~Mixinga on Thu, 15 Nov 2007 03:42:00 PST

saudades do grande amor

Da escuridao e das entranhas, dos circulos a arder, dos sinais, das caras-mascaras sem metades-de-metades, incompletas e voltadas para o mar, ao vento no frio.  Dos oposto: os passos-saias e...
Posted by Ana~Mixinga on Thu, 15 Nov 2007 02:35:00 PST