POROMECHANICS
A collection of video-portraits of artists, depicted as oracles, in dialogue with a suspended sculpture of a double-headed whale figure in sleeping position.
The initiative to portrait different artists, who are filmed moments after being subjected to states of immersion, through physical and sound activation, potentiates the idea of accessing the “black boxes” of these visionary bodies, promoting the activation of the parasympathetic nervous system and the appearance of subconscious speeches.
Seeking to define an axis between the occult interior and a skin contour, in this dynamic dichotomy the body is seen as a cognitive entity, emitter—receiver of a multi-apparitional flux of visions. In an attempt to reclaim the flesh and hypnagogic individual hallucinations, each body is depicted a soothsayer (the one who tells the truth), returning the manifestation of their gestures on camera.
The dialogue between the video-portraits and the moving inflatable sculpture of an exploded whale, opens the imaginary space for a chimeric animal, a science fiction figure who’s moving surface becomes a medium for projection and speculation, a riddle dispositive.
TEAM & PARTNERS
Artistic Direction/ Video — Catarina Miranda
Invited Artists — Ana Isabel Castro, Ana Rita Teodoro, António Pedro Lopes, Cristina Planas Leitão, Marco da Silva Ferreira, Laura Kirshenbaum
Music — Lechuga Zafiro
Singers — Cobracoral (Ece Canli, Clélia Colonna, Catarina Miranda)
Video Post-production — João Parra , Catarina Miranda, Jonathan Saldanha
Colouring — Mark Gomez
PRODUCTION & PROMOTION — Sara Abrantes, Sofia Matos, Joana Silva /Materiais Diversos
Executive Production — Vanda Cerejo
COPRODUCTION — Materiais Diversos (Lisboa/PT), SOOPA (Porto / PT); TMP (Porto / PT); Walk&Talk (Açores/ PT); CND Centre Nacional de la Danse (Paris, France), ICI-CCN Montpellier – Occitanie (as part of Life Long Burning project supported by the European commission — Montpellier / France);
Project funded by DGArtes/ Portuguese Government and by REDE CULTURAL 5SENTIDOS (C.C. Vila Flor, TAGV, T.M.Guarda, Cine-Teatro Louletano, Teatro Micaelense, T.M.Porto, São Luiz Teatro Municipal, Teatro Nacional São João, Teatro Viriato).
Artistic residencies — TEATRO MUNICIPAL DO PORTO, SOOPA, CND CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA DANSE Fr.
DIFFUSION 2022
18th - 22 January — Maus Hábitos/ 90th Birthday Rivoli Theatre Porto Pt
18th & 19th March — Centre Pompidou, Paris
16th July — Teatro Micaelense/ Walk&Talk Açores
27th - 30th Oct — TMSão Luís, Lisboa
Maus Hábitos/ 90th Birthday Rivoli Theatre, Porto/ Pt 2022
Ana Isabel Castro, Ana Rita Teodoro, António Pedro Lopes, Marco da Silva Ferreira, Cristina Planas Leitão, Laura Kirshenbaum
Centre Pompidou, Paris/ Fr 2022
Ana Isabel Castro, Ana Rita Teodoro, António Pedro Lopes, Marco da Silva Ferreira, Cristina Planas Leitão, Laura Kirshenbaum
Teatro São Luiz, Lisboa Pt 2022
