VERBO 2009: 5th edition of the annual performance festival / July 6 to 11, 2009 / Galeria Vermelho, Centro Cultural São Paulo and FUNARTE, Sao Paulo, Brazil
PERFORMANCELOGÍA: Todo sobre Arte de Performance y Performancistas
VERBO 2009
5th edition of the annual
performance festival
Galeria Vermelho, Centro
Cultural São Paulo and FUNARTE
July 6 to 11, 2009
Sao Paulo, Brazil
http://www.galeriavermelho.com.br
Since the beginning in 2005, Vermelho works along with other institutions from São Paulo to put together a wide panorama about performance art in a week of presentations, which includes actions and installations by over 50 artists from Brazil and other countries such as Portugal, Spain, Holland and France; launching of artists' books, magazines and DVDs, workshops for creation in the performance field developed in partnership with FUNARTE and an Educational Action including the second edition of the seminar Verbo Conjugado, (Conjugated Verb) organized by Centro Cultural São Paulo and Vermelho.
The actions included on the fifth edition of VERBO were selected through careful analysis of the 320 projects sent to Vermelho from December 2008 to March 2009. Ten were the actions selected to be part of the performance show. VERBO 2009 also counts with a selection of works that appropriate of the dynamic of the game to establish a direct contact with the observer. CASINO presents works by Axel Straschnoy (Argentina), Ícaro Zorbar (Colombia), Anne Durez (France), Marcio Banfi, Laerte Ramos, João Loureiro, Cris Bierrenbach, Elida Tessler, Carla Zaccagnini, Marilá Dardot (Brazil), among others.
A great closure party will take place on Saturday, July 11th, starting at 16h at the FUNARTE building - Alameda Nothmann, nº 1.058 – Campos Elíseos – São Paulo – SP
The Actions
Galeria Vermelho
Ana Montenegro and Edgar Ulisses (Brazil), performers who have already participated in previous editions of Verbo, will present their most recent piece named Encontro na miragem do outro (Meeting at the other's mirage -2009). The action reflects the search, on the infinity, of the meeting point among relations.
A 1,90 meters high and 16 meters long wall of concrete bricks will be built in the presence of the viewers during the performance Muro em diagonal - metáforas espaciais com experiência concreta (Diagonal Wall - space metaphors with concrete experience, 2009), by Carolina Mendonça and Bruno Freire (Brazil). The action that will divide Vermelho's front yard from side to side intends to transform the public circulation as well as the perception experience of the space.
With A Maldição de Ford – homenagem a f? (Ford's Curse - tribute to f?, 2009), the performer Daniel Fagundes (Brazil) returns to VERBO as a conductor of an orchestra composed of over 20 artists, among performers and musicians, and ten cars of varied brands parked at Vermelho's front yard. From a platform, Fagundes will conduct the piece entitled “Divertimento para dez carros” (Divertissement for ten cars), with seven movements and 38 minutes long.
Brasília, e as Maravilhosas Cascatas De Iguaçu (Brasilia and the Wonderful Iguaçu Falls, 2009) mixes cinema and performance. The cinema projection techniques of rear-screen, playback, voice-off and sound band will all be executed live by the characters of the film shot by Gabriel Abrantes (Portugal) in Brazil. The title of the film is the same as the performance to be presented at VERBO.
In Tentativa de evocar o espírito de Joseph Beuys ao redor deste espaço (Attempt to evoke Joseph's Beuys spirit around this space, 2009), the young artist Guilherme Peters (Brazil) creates a humorous action about the influence of Beuys works' in contemporary art. Peters employs materials such as animal fat, felt and copper, adding street culture elements to them.
Delivery (2009), by Laura Huzak Andreato (Brazil), is a stage landscape at the gallery's yard that approaches the aesthetic and efficiency of marketing campaigns that are created by local stores, their names and products.
Those who walk by Rua Augusta area in São Paulo must have already noticed some small stickers, most of them very simple, that appear in pedestrian signs, shaped as frogs or submarines. These interventions of the grupoArac, in public or private spaces, create cracks in perception since they break the visual familiarity we experience at places where we normally circulate. Canned Attack (2009) is the performance title grupoArac will present in VERBO 2009. GrupoArac is composed of four people, "a curator, a frustrated artist, a layman and a guinea pig artist", whose only name will be revealed to public. The rules guiding the actions of grupoArac are of games. Canned Attack is a game proposition between the "guinea pig artist" Eli Golande and the audience.
Composed by artists Rafael Lamata and Jaime Vallaure (Spain), the Los Torreznos duo develops conceptual explorations on social, political and custom fields. Their source point is the most concrete reality. They have worked together in other groups such as Zona de Acción Temporal and El Circo Interior Bruto, having created Los Torreznos in 2000. For VERBO 2009, the duo will show La Cultura (The Culture, 2006) and El Dinero (The Money, 2008). Both actions criticize the territory where we move, culture, in a realistic and humorous way.
Nezaket Ekici was born in 1970 at Kirsehir (Turkey) and currently lives and works in Stuttgart and Berlin (Germany). Permanent Words (2009) is an original action proposed by Ekici for the 2009 edition of VERBO, in which the artist comments on the role of women in Islamic societies, emphasizing repression and lack of freedom.
Created in 2001 by artist Anno Dijkstra (Holland), Body Hit employs special effects of cinema to simulate the impact
of bullet in the artist's body.
Moving through a amongst a matrix of live
electronic curiosa, a performer, a fictional radio species divines
samples from diverse sources; tap shoes, glitches, break beats, noise,
broken-up lyrics and abstract movements make sounds like a radio
transmission coming from elsewhere.. maybe even as far as Tasmania.... A playful ode to the history of
paraphernalia. paraphernalia: dances with her shadow by Nancy
Mauro-Flude (Australia/ Holand) is about the embodied connection with
electronic medium. a poetic account of how we engage with these
fictional radio species, how we are turning into a different radio
species created by regular habitual use of different communication
systems: GSM, Blue tooth, RFIID, digital media broadcasting, wi-fi.
These radio transmissions are a new kind of species that are existing
with us.
Annie Vigier and Franck Apertet develop to the Les Gens d”Uterpan since 2005 a series of choreographic protocols, in partnership with the Contemporary Art Centre of Bretigny (France), that interrogate the boundaries between dance and visual arts. X-Events was the title given by the duo to the series of protocols, here taken as objects that work as autonomous units according to the presentation spaces. X-Event 2 was integrated by the committee of the year of France in Brazil and counts with the participation of five dancers. It will be performed twice in this edition of VERBO (at Galeria Vermelho), and once, on July 12th, 17h, at Centro Cultural São Paulo (CCSP), where they will explore the entire Flavio de Carvalho floor.
Carta (Letter, 2009) is the title of the new performance by
Maurício Ianês, Brazilian artist who participated in the last Sao Paulo
Biennial (2008) with the performance A Bondade de Estranhos (The
Kindness of Strangers, 2008). He spent 13 days within the institution building
living on donations by the exhibition visitors. Carta continues Ianês' research on language, by using texts and
quotes of writers, critics and philosophers in their original versions and
creates with the viewer, who will be able to interfere in the action, a
fragmented dialogue mediated by an interpreter. Besides Carta Ianês is also presenting Monólogopedra (Stonemonologue,
2008).
Marco Paulo Rolla is one of the most representative active Brazilian artists in the performance scene. For his first participation in VERBO, the artist created the performance Suando e Resistindo (Sweating and Resisting, 2009) where he and other two performers will compose a choir of voices mixed with the sound of domestic objects breaking.
Since the beginning of VERBO, in 2005, the Brazilian dancer, choreographer and teacher Rose Akras (resident in Amsterdam, Holland) has been part of the event through actions that extend the dance field, tearing apart the chain of linear, continuous and contiguous movements from internal body experiences. In Similitude (2009), Akras get together with Brazilian visual artist also resident in Amsterdam Célio Braga to create an investigation on the body statute in Art History. To do so, the duo uses concepts related to mimicry; simulated actions that develop into issues where identity, difference, attraction and spatial immersion are incorporated in the performance process.
The Launches
TIJUANA / VERMELHO
Magazine MARTE # 3 / “What do we talk about when we talk about performance?” was the question that oriented the research of the Faculdade de Belas Artes senior students of Universidade de Lisboa, coordinated by Liliana Coutinho in the creation of this issue of MARTE Magazine. According to Coutinho, this edition intends to discuss how and why is the body a legitimate field of political action - through texts, interviews, reports and works especially developed for this publication - since contemporary performance is related to issues from other artistic disciplines and also with a critical exploration of manners of organizing and living together. As part of the book launch that is to take place in TIJUANA (Galeria Vermelho) during the opening of VERBO, Liliana Coutinho, editorial coordinator of the project, and Lucia Prancha will make a presentation about this project and the contemporary performance scene in Portugal. Along with MARTE # 3 - What do we talk about when we talk about performance?, MARTE # 1 - The new in Art Today, and MARTE # 2 - Legitimate in Art will be available for purchase at TIJUANA.
The descriptions compilation O Performer, by Fabio Morais, was presented at VERBO's first edition, in 2005. The piece is composed of around 16 descriptions of imaginary actions created by Morais and was presented as wall posters that were replaced daily. For VERBO 2009, Morais developed an edition of 100 bind copies of O Performer to be launched at the opening of the show, at TIJUANA.
The two first DVDs with compilations of performances by artists Maurício Ianês and Marco Paulo Rolla will also be launched at the VERBO opening, as an experimental documental project with graphic design by CAMPO. This project is not limited to artists represented by Vermelho, and soon will bring compilations by other artists and groups.
Educational Action
Centro Cultural São Paulo
The second edition of the seminar Verbo Conjugado (Conjugated Verb) organized by CCSP will take place on July 7, 8, 9 and 10, from 15h to 18h at the Sala Zero, admission free. There will be four tables to discuss present issues about performance: Space and Event; Performativity and Narrative; Modes of Subjectivation and Institutional Insertion of Performance. Also, issues from the seminars will be approached during the three meetings of work groups, composed of guest artists and the lecturers at Sala Zero, in the morning.
Mediator_ Daniela Labra / critic and independent curator, graduated in Theater Theory at Uni-Rio, specialized in Communication and Art by Univ. Complutense of Madrid and Master in Arts at Unicamp. She has created along with Galeria Vermelho (SP) the performance art show Verbo, in 2004, and directs the performance and new media festival Performance Presente Futuro, at Oi Futuro, Rio de Janeiro. Selected recent works as curator: Investigações Pictóricas, MAC Niterói, RJ (2009); Performance Presente Futuro, Oi Futuro, RJ (2008); Espaços Reversíveis, Museu Histórico de Sta. Catarina, SC (2008); Fabulosas Desordens, Caixa Cultural, RJ (2007); Juha Nenonen and Miklos Gaál, Centro Mariantonia, SP (2006); Perambulação, 2nd Architecture Biennial of Rotterdam (2005). Editorial member of Revista Número (SP) from 2003 to 2008. Teacher at the Theory ad Art History department of the Art Institute of UERJ in 2006 -2007. Curator-resident at FRAME (Helsinki, Finland) in 2005 and at IASPIS -International Artists Studio Program in Sweden (Stockholm), 2007. Lives in Rio de Janeiro.
July 7
Table 1_ Space and Event / Space as a persuasive instrument of the event. Discussion about performance potentiality of urban installations and interventions.
Sam Ely & Lynn Harris_ Unreleased Project / The work of Sam Ely and Lynn Harris (UK) appropriates social dynamics in the performance creation as well as ephemeral objects that metaphorically reveal power structures that determines daily life. The duo's interest is revealing such structures as a way to generate possible alternatives of living together in large urban centers. The duo arrives in Sao Paulo for a residency that will result in the creation of a work about the effects of the Cidade Limpa (Clean City) law. Brazilian performers Cristiana Ceschi and Beatrice Carvalho, from the group As Routes, will collaborate with the project yet to be developed in the city and will also be part of Table 1.
Renato Cymbalista / graduated in Architecture and Urbanism by Faculdade de Arquitetura e Urbanismo of Universidade de São Paulo (1996), master in Urban Ambient Structures by Faculdade de Arquitetura e Urbanismo of Universidade de São Paulo (2001) and doctorate in Urban Ambient Structures by Faculdade de Arquitetura e Urbanismo of Universidade de São Paulo (2006). Coordinator of the urbanism research group of the Instituto de Estudos, Formação e Assessoria em Políticas Sociais (2003-2008). Post-doctorate researcher of IFCH-UNICAMP, with the project "Dimensões do Império Português" (Dimensions of the Portuguese Empire). Expert ad hoc of FAPESP.
July 8
Table 2_ Performativity and Narrative / Does the term performativity helps to understand the new interest in narrative in the contemporary art context?
Jaime Vallaure and Rafael Lamata_ Los Toreznos / The artist duo Los Torreznos, formed by Jaime Vallaure and Rafael Lamata (Spain) explore the political and social field. Their works are characterized by an expressive research on gesture, sound, language and presence, forms that are at first accessible to everyone and not only for initiates in the language of contemporary art. Their work is developed in many formats, some are presential (performances and actions) and some are videos or sound pieces. Los Torreznos first appeared as an independent creation group. They were founder members of the experimental creation group Circo Interior Bruto 2000/2005, and of the Zona de Acción Temporal (ZAT) 1997/98. Los Torreznos participated in the 52nd edition of the Venice Bienalle (2007) as part of the project Paradiso Spezzato‚ at the Spanish pavilion.
Cristiane Paoli Quito / graduated in Law by Faculdade Mackenzie, dedicated to theather for 30 years, working as actress, producer, swing spotlight operator and director. Directs, since 1996, the Cia. Nova Dança 4 in São Paulo and directed the theater play Aldeotas of Gero Camilo, work for what she was awarded by Prêmio Shell 2004. Founder-partner of Pimba Produções Artísticas. She currently teaches at Estúdio Nova Dança and at the Escola de Arte Dramática/ECA/USP - where she was also director form March 2005 to March 2009.
July 9
Table 3_ Modes of Subjectivation / A view upon the performer praxis and the innovative character of the destabilizing experiences existent in contemporary processes of subjectivation.
Suely Rolnik / Psychoanalyst, art
and culture critic and curator, she is a teacher at PUC-SP (founder of the
Núcleo de Estudos da Subjetividade at Pós-Graduação em Psicologia Clínica) and
guest teacher of the Programa de Estudios Independientes (PEI) at the Museu de Arte
Contemporania of Barcelona. Researcher of the Fondation de France at the
Institut National d'Histoire de l'Art (INHA) in Paris, 2007. Lived for ten
years in Paris (1970-79), where she graduated in Philosophy and Social Sciences
(Sorbonne, Paris VIII) and Psychology (maîtrise and D.E.S.S, Sorbonne, Paris
VII). Back in Brazil, she graduated doctorate in Social Psychology PUC-SP,
1987). Her main research field is the current politics of subjectivation,
treated from a transdisciplinary perspective that privileges, since the '90s,
contemporary art in its interface with clinic and politics.
Key Sawao and Ricardo Iazzetta_ Key Zetta e Cia / Key and Ricardo are artistic partners since 1996 and develop their research in dance focusing on language research and its inter-relations.
July 10
Table 4_ Debate: Institutional Insertion of Performance / a talk over performance insertion in the program of public and private spaces.
Sonia Sobral / Dance
programmer. Coordinated the dance area of Oficina Cultural Oswald de Andrade of
the Secretaria de Estado da Cultura in São Paulo between 1991 and 1992. Carried
out dance projects of Balé Stagium and Cisne Negro Cia. de Dança. Studied body
consciousness in Brazil and England. Participated in the Dance Lab of PUC/SP, coordinated
by Helena Katz, from 1985 to 2005. Manages the Núcleo de Artes Cênicas of Itaú
Cultural since 1999. Among the main projects she coordinates are Rumos Itaú
Cultural Dança and the Encontro
Internacional sobre Teatro Contemporâneo. She is a scenic arts consultant and
participates in forums and debates all over Brazil. Member of the Red
Sudamericana de Danza and consultant of the website idanca.
Eduardo Brandão / Studied photography at the Brooks Institute of Photography in Santa Barbara, CA. From 1991 to 2004 worked as photography and art director of the Revista da Folha de S.Paulo. He was a photography teacher in the Arts course of Fundação Armando Alvares Penteado (FAAP) from 1995 to 2007, works as independent curator and is partner/owner of Galeria Vermelho in São Paulo since 2002. He's curated, among others, the shows “Iconógrafos” (1991), at MAM (Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo); “Horizonte Reflexivo” (1998), Centro Cultural Light, São Paulo; “Sob Medida” (1999), Espaço Porto Seguro de Fotografia; “Imagética” (2003), MUMA (Museu Metropolitana de Arte de Curitiba). He is the art director of Vermelho.
Lara Pinheiro/ choreographer and dancer, master in communication and semiotic by PUC-SP. Studied at the Folkwang Schule, in Essen (Germany) and at the Milton Meyers Company in NY (EUA). Received the grant Vitae-Antorches-Andes to participate in the American Dance Festival in Argentina. She was resident choreographer in the project Ex-It 03, in Bröllin (Germany), in 2003. She has won the awards of Cultura Inglesa (piece Nós, Elas e Eu ) in 2006, and PAC (Secretaria de Estado da Cultura de SP), in 2007, (piece E Agora, Alice?) She currently is the Dance Assessor of the Secretaria Municipal de Cultura of Sao Paulo.
Liliana Coutinho (Portugal) / Post-graduated in Curating and Organizing Exhibitions in Contemporary Art by Faculdade de Belas Artes da Universidade of Lisbon. Master in Curatorial Studies by Faculdade de Belas Artes da Universidade of Lisbon. Attended the doctorate course in Philosophical Studies - Aesthetic at the Universidade Nova, in Lisbon, Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas. She is currently attending the doctorate course at UFR04-École Doctorale d’Arts Plastiques, Cinema et Sciences de L’Art, da Université de Paris 1. Editorial Coordinator of the Marte Magazine of the Faculdade de Belas Artes da Universidade of Lisbon.
Workshops
FUNARTE
The FUNARTE, the most recent partner of VERBO, will host three workshops free of charge that will be held by Rose Akras, Marco Paulo Rolla and Tal Haddad. Experienced in dance, visual art and music, respectively, each one of the three artists will provide distinct views on creation processes according to their background.
Marco Paulo Rolla (Belo Horizonte – Brazil)
Period: July 6, 7 and 8, 2009, from 11 to 14hs
Performance embraces an interdisciplinary dimension that allows people from different artistic disciplines and other production fields in society to get involved. Therefore, it is able to provoke diverse experiences that renovate artistic, educational and professional practices. The performance field deals with different expressive forms, promoting dialogues among them. Due to its measureless permeability, performance can multiply the possibilities of enlarging visual praxis in the artistic field. It is addressed to artists and general public. Maximum of 15 participants.
Rose Akras (Amsterdam – Holland)
Period: July 9, 10 and 11, 2009, from 11 to 14hs
In a moment when Performance proliferates and creators from many disciplines tend to name their work as performance, it seems relevant to reflect upon issues of presence and representation, perception and incorporation and the communication among body and space, artist and audience. Unlike theater or dance, in a performance both artist and audience share the same space plan, what makes this relation much more immediate. This proximity presents issues similar to the relation of observer and observed and gives any gesture, as subtle as it may be, a great importance in the reading of the piece. It is addressed to dancers, performers, visual artists and general public. Maximum of 15 participants.
Tal Hadad (Paris – France)
Period: July 8, 9, 10 and 11, 2009, from 11 to 18hs
Aparelhagens da Cidade intends to introduce the tecnobrega experience from Para (Brazil) in big metropolises as São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro. Participants are to explore and exploit the potential of the musical and architecture practices in the urban environment. They are invited to investigate the social and musical habits from the periphery culture to push its potential to conceptualize urban developed ideas. Participant’s proposals and ideas may materialize into furniture, objects or architectural elements. The workshop intends to create a debate on sound and architecture through sound elements and the musical culture in the city in order to create symbolic urban environments. The workshop closure is on Saturday, July 11, with a presentation of a performance resulting of the processes developed during the week. It is addressed to students, visual artists, architects, performers and general public. Maximum of 7 participants, also open to listeners.
EVENT:: VERBO (5ª Edition)
PERiOD:: from July 06 to 10, 2009.
HOURS:: from 20 to 22h
ADMISSION FREE
LOCAL:: Galeria Vermelho / TIJUANA
ADDRESS:: Rua Minas Gerais, 350 – São Paulo – SP - 01244010 – Tel ++55 11 3138 1520
www.galeriavermelho.com.br – in...@galeriavermelho.com.br
EVENT:: Verbo Conjugado (Conjugated Verb) (2ª Edition)
PERiOD:: from July 07 to 10, 2009.
HOURS:: from 15 to 18h
ADMISSION FREE
LOCAL:: Hall 0 – Flavio de Carvalho Floor - Centro Cultural São Paulo
ADDRESS:: Rua Vergueiro, 1000 - São Paulo – SP - 01504-000 - Tel ++55 11 3383-3402
www.centroculturalsaopaulo.sp.gov.br
EVENTO:: VERBO / Workshops
PERiOD:: from July 06 to 11, 2009.
HOURS:: several options
ADMISSION FREE
More info:
http://www.galeriavermelho.com.br
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