COSMIC PHASE/STAGE — Ana Libório, Bruno José Silva e João Estevens / Arraial Cósmico
The theatrical space is occupied by human beings and non-human beings (objects, structures, robotics), who move in an alternative post digital world. The constant change of the referential subject of the action makes the spectators have to adjust their interaction and communication dynamics along the object. This presents a dramaturgical path that promotes the fusion between the performance and the installation space, becoming a place of utopia and philosophy, which seeks reflection on art and technology.
Credits
Creation and Performance: Ana Libório
Performance: André Loubet
Creation and Scenography: Bruno José Silva
Creation and performance: João Estevens
Executive Production: Tânia Geiroto Marcelino
Production: Arraial Cósmico – Associação
Artistic Residencies/Support: O Espaço do Tempo, Rua das Gaivotas 6/Teatro Praga, Pólo Cultural Gaivotas Boavista/Câmara Municipal de Lisboa, Centro Cultural Malaposta/Minutos Redondos/Câmara Municipal de Odivelas, Companhia Portuguesa de Bailado Contemporâneo
Other supports and partnerships: Paralaxe/Erro Universal – Núcleo de Investigação, Contemporânea/Making Art Happen, Centro Cultural de Belém
Financed by: Teatro Nacional D. Maria II, Fundação GDA, Temps D’Images/DUPLACENA
Co-production: Bolsa de Criação O Espaço do Tempo, com o apoio do BPI e da Fundação ”la Caixa”
Projeto criado no âmbito do programa Antecipar o Futuro, uma iniciativa do Teatro Nacional D. Maria II, com o apoio da NTT DATA e em parceria com O Espaço do Tempo
About Ana Libório, Bruno José Silva e João Estevens / Arraial Cósmico
Ana Libório: Portuguese non-binary transdisciplinary artist; performer based in Berlin and Lisbon. They are trained in Theatre at the Escola Superior de Teatro e Cinema (ESTC), and in Aesthetic Philosophy at the University of Lisbon (MA FLUL). Currently they study dance (HZT/UDK) in Berlin. In their works they questions the hybrid body as choreographic-digital representativity in an intermodal performative practice, thus widening the range of performative practice as a strategy of socio-political-digital engagement (survival strategies). Their most recent work is the performance Capturing|you| Fictional Politics of Movement (Lisbon) and “Tragic, this is so tragic” at the UfferStudios in Berlin.
Bruno José Silva: Visual artist. He has a degree in architecture (FA.ULisboa) and photography (HÉLICE’s Complete Photography Training Merit Scholarship). He focuses his artistic research on the concept of the image, exploring different aspects of it, from different approaches and perspectives. The image, understood in a broad way, is always present as a mechanism, a tool and a concept about which he tries to question its status, its use and the mechanisms of its production. He presents his work in group and solo exhibitions, in independent and institutional spaces. He has been showing his work regularly since 2016, of the most recent exhibitions include ‘Limit of Disappearance’ at Banco das Artes Galeria (Leiria, 2022); ‘Dream sequence’ curated by. Manon Klein in Marvila Art District (Lisbon, 2022), ‘Nature tuned to a dead channel’ in EGEU (Lisbon, 2022); ‘Um corpo, um rio’ curated by David Revés at Galeria Liminare (Lisbon, 2021). He was artist in residence and presented her work in ‘Planalto – Arts Festival 2021’ and in ‘raum: online artist residencies 2020’ at the invitation of Art Curatorship students at NOVA FCSH in partnership with Galerias Municipais/EGEAC. Since 2018, he has been collaborating with theatre and performance, for which he develops set design and photography, highlighting the shows ‘All You Can Eat’ at MAAT (Lisbon, 2022), ‘Esa Cosa LLamada Amor – 10 years later’ at Centro Cultural de Belém (Lisbon, 2021), both by the theatre company Plataforma285; ‘Capturing You | Fictional Politics of Movement’ in Rua das Gaivotas 6 by Ana Libório (Artista do Bairro 2021). He was a winner of the Keep It Brian Video Award (Balaclava Noir, 2021), a finalist in the Young Creators (IPDJ, 2021) and awarded an honorable mention for his work in the 2019 JOV’ARTE Biennale. He lives and works in Lisbon, Portugal.
João Estevens: João Estevens is a performer, dramaturg and researcher in social sciences, currently finishing his PhD at the Universidade Nova de Lisboa. He began his artistic career in university theatre, studied at Forum Dança and worked as a performer (with Adriana Aboim, Daniel Gorjão, João Fiadeiro) before developing his artistic research. As a creator, he values hybrid formats, created through long processes of experimentation and investigation, expanding the use of improvisation as a method of creation, and questioning the interactions with our time and space, as well as with existing power structures.
In his artistic practice, he increasingly seeks the intersection between performing and visual arts in the development of his language. He focuses on the composition of new dramaturgies, having collaborated, in this sense, with emerging artists in Portugal. He integrates Rabbit Hole, a structure where he has strengthened his collaborative practices. Between 2019 and 2020 he is one of the artists selected to participate in the European project ‘Open Access – Experimenting with performing arts and transmedia creation’. His most recent works are the transmedia performance C\:>how2become (data) & dissolve_into: ‘tears’, co-produced by TBA-Teatro do Bairro Alto and Teatro Viriato, and the editorial coordination of the work Artes Performativas e Cultura Digital.
Arraial Cósmico – Associação: Arraial Cósmico Cultural Association was founded by a group of artists, in Lisbon, in 2021, in order to mediate and articulate artistic areas dedicated to the production, curatorship and creation of artistic events/objects. Arraial Cósmico Cultural Association dedicates its activity to the realization of theatre and performance shows, debates, meetings, exhibitions and sharing of artistic practices with the community in general. Its genesis is the promotion of transdisciplinary artistic expressions, dissident languages and aesthetics, thus valuing experimental artistic creation. The association includes a group of artists from various areas, from theatre, dance, performance, video and cinema. Its focus is inclusivity in what concerns the expression of identity(ies), the elevation of the community(ies) where it belongs, also aiming to safeguard the rights of artists and researchers, supporting research works of real interest for the survey and fruition of cultural potentialities.
