MITbr - PLATAFORMA BRASIL
National Call
Aging Prelude
Epílogo
ARTIST: chameckilerner
60 min | Ages 16+
- March 11 and 12, Wednesday, 6pm, and Thursday, 4pm
- CCSP - Centro Cultural São Paulo Espaço Cênico Ademar Guerra - Rua Vergueiro, 1000, Liberdade
- Accessible Location
- The session on March 11 features interpretation in Brazilian Sign Language (Libras) and audio description.
SYNOPSIS
Challenging the fetishization of eternal youth and subverting the normative body, this performance conceived by the duo chameckilerner draws on a physical vocabulary inspired by iconic nudes from art history. These paintings, photographs, and sculptures are brought to life by performers of diverse ages, abilities, racial backgrounds, and genders, stripping the “standard body” of its power within the visual imagination. Driven by personal histories, the passage of time, and the accumulated experiences inscribed in each body, the work creates a space where identity is not confined by age. Onstage, bodies marked by time shift from objects of fear to sources of fascination, activating a complex play of identification and desire.
BACKGROUND
chameckilerner is an interdisciplinary duo founded in 1993 in New York by Brazilian artists Rosane Chamecki and Andrea Lerner. Both trained in dance at PUC/PR, they have spent over three decades researching the intersections between dance and time-based media. Their performances, videos, and installations have been presented at venues such as MASP, MASS MoCA, The Kitchen, and SummerStage. They have received awards including the Guggenheim Fellowship, Foundation for Contemporary Arts, and NYFA, completed residencies at the Watermill Center and the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, and presented work throughout the Americas and Europe. From 2003 to 2004, they curated Casa Hoffmann in Curitiba.
CRITICAL RECEPTION
“While artworks capture bodies in a single moment in time—often fetishizing or idealizing their subjects—the performance is more interested in how time alters and marks the body, and how the body perceives itself. A meditation on change, the work is also a kind of beginning anew.”
Siobhan Burke, The New York Times
CREDITS
Concept and direction: Rosane Chamecki, Andrea Lerner
Original performer-creators: Bria Bacon, Anne Gridley, Jody Oberfelder, Jailyn Phillips-Wiley, Viviana Rodriguez, Fabio Tavares
Cast at MITsp: Vanessa Vieira de Oliveira, Alucas Santos, Israel Sulivan Rodrigues do Amaral, Katia Maria Coelho Drumond, Cristiane dos Santos Souza, Nautilio Bronholo Portela, Princesa Ricardo Marinelli Martins, Nadya Romanowski Foltran
Soundtrack: Paul Parreira
Original lighting design: Stan Pressner
Set design: Taylor Friel and chameckilerner
Sound operation: chameckilerner
Executive production, creation, and production: chameckilerner, Corpo Rastreado
Co-production: The Chocolate Factory Theater, New England Foundation for the Arts
Support and partnership: The Bogliasco Foundation, Gibney DIP Residency