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VITA
Life in a Zone of Social Abandonment 
- Vita is the end-station on the road of poverty.
It is the place where living beings go when
they are no longer considered people. 
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Left all by himself,
knowing that no one will respond,
that nothing will crack open the future. 
- Here the most vulnerable
are sure to become “unknowables,”
with no human rights and
with no one accountable to them. 
- Yet people hold onto something,
anything they find in Vita. 
- Objects sustaining a search,
the possibility of a tie.
Inner words kept alive. 
- At the limits of human imagination,
desire continues against all odds. 
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Catarina spent her days in Vita
writing her ”dictionary.”The characters turn and un-turn.
This is my world after all. 
- Dead alive, dead outside, alive inside.
- How can the anthropological artifact
keep the story moving and unfinished? 
- Divorce, dictionary
Discipline, diagnostics
Operation, reality
To give an injection
To get a spasm
In the body
A cerebral spasm 
- To decipher the real in her life,
to reconstruct the worldliness of her words. 
- To want my body as medication.
Pain broadcasts sick science.
To live is expensive.
Human body? 
- Catarina embodies a condition
that is more than her own. 
- Of love there is nothing
Only emptiness
What will become of the world? 
- “I am part of the origins,
not just of language,
but of people….” 
Continually adjusting itself to the reality of contemporary lives and worlds,
the anthropological venture has the potential of art: to invoke neglected
human possibilities and to expand the limits of understanding and imagination.