@CPR | Denisse Griselda Reyes and Melia Efstratis Chendo: Get on the Couch

ABOUT
This performance stages the psychoanalytic session as a live, unstable encounter between two bodies shifting positions of authority and vulnerability. Drawing on psychoanalytic and performance theory, the session constructs an analytic space in which transference, projection, and free association are activated and made visible. Through role-play and improvised dialogue, the tension of the analytic duo is explored as a relational happening.

Chendo and Reyes experiment with camera feedback to further destabilize the fixed binary of the looking analyst/seen patient. A live video feed mirrors the session, emphasizing the role of delay and repetition in meaning-making. Together, Chendo and Reyes perform analysis as a mutual, contingent process rather than a unidirectional cure.