Corpo Bruto
17 — 21 november 2021
Art residency
CORPO BRUTO: deformities, dis-anthropomorphism and violence is an art residency by the collective O Banquete – Associação de Investigação e Criação, focusing on performance, dance and music at Oliva Art Centre. The residency examines the collection, exhibitions and work developed at Oliva Art Centre in the field of art brut now transposed to the domain of the body and performative arts. The residency’s public programme includes two performances, a dance/performance workshop and a concluding talk. Between 17 and 21 November, O Banquete proposes an examination of violence as a repetitive movement for transformation and as a process that moulds the shape and identity of the human body. In the processes of violence between bodies, or in self-inflicted violence, the anthropomorphic is deformed, bringing about new physiognomies, images and experiences. The consequence of these acts of destructive sculptural violence is a conditioning, oppressive materiality, a poetics of desolation as well as their opposite: a reactive force, a counter-movement, a creative alterity.
AD LUCEM
19 November 2021 | 19:00
25 min. – dance/performance
Audience: 14 years and over
Maximum of 25 spectators
AD LUCEM is a reflection on Raymond Depardon’s photographic records of Italian psychiatric wards in the 1970s in his series Manicomio, featuring a hostage, flagellating body that sways between unity and fragment, caress and aggression, and is simultaneously the oppressor and the oppressed. By thinking the contemporary body in its relationship with objective and subjective violence it is possible to understand it as its own greatest victim. The oppressors’ violence falls away and the body divides itself to play two roles that have historically corresponded to different bodies. But how to free the body when it is its own hostage?
This performance is supported by GDA Foundation.
Creation: BANQUETE (Joana Martins, Júlio Cerdeira and Rúben Borges)
Performer: Júlio Cerdeira
Music: Rúben Borges
Acknowledgements: IPP- ESMAE, Cláudia Marisa, Samuel Guimarães, Sónia Passos and FICTIONARY ROAD
Photography: Ana Resende
CRUA
21 November 2021 | 5 p.m.
30 min. – performance + 30 min. informal talk
Audience: 12 years and over
Maximum 25 spectators
This performance is based on the exhibition Jaime: ‘vi uma cadela minha com lobos’ [Jaime: ‘I saw one of my bitches running with wolves’] at Oliva Art Centre; it explores the evolution bodies in space, composition and interaction. Undergoing a series of episodes that transform and redesign them, these bodies made of interlocking parts, filigrees and animality walk forwards and backwards to create a portrait of rawness.
Creation: BANQUETE (Joana Martins, Júlio Cerdeira and Rúben Borges)
Performance: Júlio Cerdeira e Joana Martins
Music: Rúben Borges
Acknowledgements: Oliva Art Centre, Pedro Morgado and Backstage – Escola de Dança e Artes Performativas
Registration via email centrodearteoliva@cm-sjm.pt
CORPO BRUTO deformities, dis-anthropomorphism and violence
November 19 | 16:00
90 min – workshop
Audience: 16 years and over, without or without performative arts training
Maximum 10 participants
The main objective of the workshop CORPO BRUTO is to work with creation-investigation premises of the performance AD LUCEM (by BANQUETE) and the Art Brut Collection of Oliva Art Centre. Oppressed and deformed bodies will be created, as well as extreme facial expressions, through an exercise of observation, improvisation and choreographic composition.
Registration until November 17th via email: centrodearteoliva@cm-sjm.pt
O BANQUETE – Associação de Criação e Investigação em Artes, Porto is a not-for-profit cultural association dedicated to creation and research at the individual and collective level. The focus is on performative arts, in which the encounter between different artistic disciplines and forms of knowledge is a priority. The activities of BANQUETE privileges investigation through thought, experimentation and the manifestation of three specific fields: performance, dance and music. It is an association of the following artists-researchers: Joana Martins, Júlio Cerdeira and Rúben Borges.