Action-instalation executed in Berlin and Hannover, that asks the question: "what does it mean being a foreigner?" the public is invited to write words on my body. Without seeing the word, only feeling the pen on my skin I try to reproduce the word in real time. New words are made creating a design on the space-instalation.

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"By forwarding her process of investigation of body and word, Andressa Cantergiani finds in the foreign the enigma of translating. The alterity that makes diference - and demand interpretation - becomes the object of her research in Antworte, a performance that, as in The Pillow Book by Peter Greenaway, happens as the notes are taken over the skin. Answering the question "what is a foreigner?", the public writes their words, that are reinterpreted by the artist, tactilely and intuitively, and translated and transcribed to the walls of the gallery.

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In this Project, the cultural differences, and the resulting political clashes, acquire new mediation possibilities through language, that here won't exist ad barriers anymore, but as an open semantic field, a space for translation and interpretation. The result of this operation is a "Tower of Babel" of expressions that presents itself as a dialectic alternative for bodies and cultures that are foreign to one another." by Bernardo José de Souza.

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Material: two water-based black markers