THE GREAT RETURN: NO STEP BACK

WITH Regina José Galindo (GUATEMALA)

In times of fascism empowerment, it is urgent to resume our fighting attitude in order to avoid ghosts from the past. Performer Regina Galindo suggests a gathering and discussing urgencies experience, to think over the outcomes of blocking the natural flow of advancing, to find ways of fighting to deal with the retracting imposition. Theory and practice, mind and body, past and present. It will be a space for each participant to develop their own performative project (scenic, written, visual, etc.) in discussion with the others.

WHEN

March 5th to 9th, Thursday to Monday, from 9am to 1pm.

WHERE

TUSP – Teatro da USP, Sala de Oficina (2º andar do CEUMA/TUSP)

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OLHO NO OLHO : WHO CAN BE VISIBLE IN SÃO PAULO TODAY?

WITH QUARANTINE (United Kingdom)

Faced with the social complexity of a 20 million people megalopolis such as São Paulo, the experienced and renowned artists of British collective Quarantine will be in artistic residency at MITsp 2020, sharing their practices with local artists. The residency will result in a performative installation attended by non-artists – regular people with no previous experience with the performing arts and with quite different, contradictory and even divergent experiences and ideologies. Richard Gregory and Renny O’Shea, co-founders and artistic directors of Quarantine, supported by partners Sarah Hunter and Kate Daley, sought out Brazilian artists from many areas (performing, visual and fine arts, dance, cinema, music, etc.) to jointly develop strategies for research, dialogue and engagement with the city and its population. In the residency’s first stage, Quarantine members shared their creative techniques and some of the devices they use for their public events. Then, the participants seek to establish a close and direct relationship with non-artists – individuals normally distant from the artistic scene and voiceless in society, especially those whose political positions and ideas tend to be rejected in the progressive milieu. Activity participants are invited to identify, find and engage non-artists with whom they will work and who will later be part of a performing installation. By bringing together people who would not normally meet, Olho no Olho residency: Who Can Be Visible in São Paulo Today? will create the means for dialogue and engagement with dissident voices – approaching themselves to what Belgian political theorist Chantal Mouffe calls “agonistic pluralism”. To this end, it will develop a methodology for dissent which asserts the positive aspects of certain forms of political conflict. Thus, the residency intends to establish a space in which performers, spectators and other attendees can confront these questions: How do we act? (theatre). How can we act? (politics). How should we act? (ethics). Who is able to perform? (representation). Active for 21 years in the UK, Quarantine’s creations deal with the daily lives of regular people; the collective works so this people can present their own narratives and experiences. On stage, they are not someone else’s ideas performers, but individuals with their own history. Through this artistic and creative method, the British collective seeks to reveal non-hegemonic personal stories and memories and to give space to unofficial and divergent voices, which are generally not heard.

WHEN

• February 13th to March 8th, Tuesday to Saturday, from 2pm to 7pm. [Carnival break: February 22nd to 25th].
• March 7th and 8th presentation of the performative installation from 2pm at Espaço expositivo Piso Caio Graco.

WHERE

Centro Cultural São Paulo (Rua Vergueiro, 1000 – Paraíso, SP )

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 HOW NOT TO KNOW TOGETHER: WHAT TO DO WITH WHAT REMAINS_IN SITU

WITH João Fiadeiro (PORTUGAL)

Most of us know that we know. Thus making us stiff and limited (knowledge is not plastic). Some of us know that they don’t know. Turning us more available and open to the world, but less adventurous. Fewer people are those who do not know they know. A rare quality that, when (ab)used with precision, in the right place at the right time, can open unexpected gaps. But the rarest and, therefore, most powerful tool, is when we manage not to know that we don’t know. When we manage to be here and now without the anxieties’ influence generated by past experiences or future expectations. How to explore the endangered body, the places of collision and the collapse borders?

The activity framework conducted by educator in focus João Fiadeiro will be the performance What to Do with What Remains (to be presented at MITsp). To this end, Fiadeiro – supported by Brazilian dancer Carolina Campos, performer in the show – will work with the participants in Composition in Real Time, a scenic tool that allows to transform the arising affections when confronting with the street (and with the body’s slow degradation) in images and then in formulations-situations. There will be two groups of concomitant participants: 20 artists with experience in improvisation and composition in contemporary dance, theatre and performance areas; and 10 observing educators who will be responsible for the narrative writing process (dramaturgical, discursive or scenic).

WHEN

March 5th to 12th, every day, from 10am to 1pm, with a break on March 8^th and 9^th Sunday and Monday.

Presentation of the scenic experiment: March 12th, Thursday, from 10am to 1pm, followed by a talk.

WHERE

Oficina Cultural Oswald de Andrade – Salas 3 e 11

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