Sergio Zevallos’s performances are situations without a clear point of arrival—invitations to practice disobedience at all levels, to remind us to retain the power the body has, and the social body is capable of enabling. In an oracular dispositive, Zevallos invites participants to engage in the dysfunction of normative logical knowledge production. Does an answer require a question to offer itself as an answer, or vice versa? Does a question always need to be followed by an answer to produce an answer; and so on. The oracle produces knowledge, no matter if it is of use in any foreseen circumstances. It is public and requires a public. It functions and is at the service of its users: an apparatus reduced to the binary of asking and answering, although it doesn’t offer a clear definition of how and why a statement is one or the other. This meaning is rendered by the user’s invention at that time, or at a later moment after its consultation.

Zevallos, an early exponent of queer performance art in South America, who has been based in Germany since the late 80s, invites a limited number of individuals to form this oracle. Two basic requirements must be satisfied: firstly, the act of assembling, as the oracle is a multicellular organism that influences its users or cells not by intention, but by performative default. And secondly, the embracing of the sensuality of bodies, unstable identities, and opaque modes of reasoning.. Similar to that encoded within DNA, the knowledge the oracle produces is activated and evolved through every sensual and sensory exchange with anyone engaging with and in it.