Body Territory - Street
The Território Corpo program opens space for artistic practice and for dialogue about the relationships between body, art and society from different perspectives. We understand territory as bodies and spaces where a set of individual and collective subjectivities are created and lived and intertwined all the time.
This year, the program celebrates RUA as a place of creation and artistic experience, where cultural production and enjoyment combine to generate connections in the public space and present, through aesthetic actions, the urgencies of the now.
“On the street, the body’s territories live and build images, inhabit urban flows, compose architectures and pervade the field of material and immaterial. There is a culture and an aesthetic plurality that is typical of the street, there is a beauty in existence that only happens in the encounter with the street. Thus, meeting the street and the artistic potentialities it offers can be a way of meeting oneself in the relationship with others, in relation to the world”, says professor and theater director Abimaelson Santos, who signs the program’s curatorship with artist Calu Zabel.
The program features a series of performances, urban interventions, artistic experiments, workshops, debates and residency that take over the streets and landscape of downtown São Luís as a stage for the artistic event. Meet:
Workshops
Deviant Trajectories Workshop, with the DiBando Collective | October 13 and 14, at 9:00am
Deviant trajectories is an experience that starts from the triggers that guide the performative action ‘Standard Deviation’. The intention is to enable, in two days of activity between living room and street, a space where corps that understand each other in the sights of the cisnormative colonial structure can share experiences, project crossings and create a collective urban action.
Venue: XXXXXXXX
Click here to register. 10 vacancies.
Afrobuck workshop, with Gilvan Santos Outsider | October 15 and 16, at 3:00 p.m.
Afrobuck is the union of several languages within urban dances, which emerged in an experimental way by the Nigerian dancer Nas Magnificent, and which express the strength and vigor of a dance that restores bodily integrity and ancestry, and that establish connections through experiences and movements of the day to day.
The workshop will generate a performance that will take place at the Central Market on the 16th.
Venue: XXXXXXXXX
Click here to register. 15 vacancies.
Lambe Workshop, with Dinho Araújo, October 16 and 23, at 2:00 p.m
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Photography and performance interact as modes of encounter with the space of Praia Grande and Desterro, based on the creation of a dance-image. Divided into two moments, between conversation and practice, the action presents different types of papers and printing resources available for the execution of a lambe lambe mural, inviting us to think about the territory of the Center through body and urban intervention.
Meeting place: In front of Chão SLZ (Rua do Giz, 167 – Centro)
Click here to register. 15 vacancies.
Matrake Workshop, with Negroni and Davi Blyndex | October 20 and 21, at 3:00 p.m.
There will be 2 days of workshop, with knowledge and body expression classes and the traditional vogue femme of the Ballroom culture, which was born in the United States in the 1960s. And to put the movements into practice, a parade through the streets and squares of the São Luís Center, showing why Vogue is synonymous with occupation, resistance and celebration of the black Latin American LGBTQIAP+ community.
Meeting place:
Click here to register. 25 vacancies.
Artist residency “Landscape staging: a scene that claims the world in the open air”, with Francis Wilker, from October 13 to 23, at 3pm.
A space for reflection on the poetic perspectives for the encounter between scene and city. To this end, it will address conceptual notions and creation procedures that emphasize the dramaturgical powers of urban space and creative possibilities based on aspects such as memory, architecture, flows and landscape.
Axes of work: The perception of space; Performer-seismograph; The body-city; Experiences with the landscape; Ghosts and memories of spaces; Composition with places; Dramaturgies of the route; and Spectator-traveler.
Location: xxxx
Click here to register. 15 vacancies.
Meet the teachers
Performances
Way, by Erivelto Viana, 13/10, at 11 am, in front of the CCVM
Integrating research on ancestry and the lines of Umbanda, this performance is an offering to Exu, summoning the dynamic and invisible energy of the street, greeting messengers who open paths and who reign at crossroads. The action will be initiated in front of the CCVM and will continue towards the streets and crossroads of the historic center.
Cuiraça, by Leônidas Portela, on October 13, at 5:00pm, on the Staircase of the Sé Church
Cuiraça is a performance in transit that exposes the living record of a body after experiencing isolation, distancing, non-presence. All this body record triggers a reflection on healing and, consequently, reconnects the artist to his ancestral matrices. The Bumba-meu-Boi is brought as an appearance. The performer travels the city with his embroidered leather, allowing us to make associations with death, the passage, the change of skin, transits that we were forced to experience in our bodies during the pandemic.
Diving III, from Áurea Maranhão, 10/15 to XXh on xxxxxxxxxxx
The performance “Diving III” investigates the life-death-life cycle bringing to the body and scene the power to be born oneself. It’s an invitation to access the underwater silence, from when we were just vibration.
The scenic action takes place through the intersection of the performer’s emergency room with the street/tub and the water/apnea. A scenic game is established between image and music, creating rhythms and sound frequencies, inviting passers-by to immerse themselves in the performer’s scores and movements.
At sunset, the cicada flies straight, by Wilka Sales, on October 19, at 5 p.m., from Deodoro Square to the Lions Palace
A procession performance, in which women will have sound devices trapped in their bodies, emanating distinct sounds of cicadas, simulating cyborgs, following a path that starts from Deodoro Square to the Lions Palace, ending at sunset. The performance is the development of a research by the artist, which already uses the characteristic sound of species of cicadas from the North and Northeast, and proposes the creation of visual poetics beyond the visible, in spaces of convergence and crossings.
Permanence_Impermanence, by Lucas Länder, on October 20, at Deodoro Square, on Avenida Beira-Mar in front of the Lions Palace and in front of the Mother Deus Cemetery
This urban intervention investigates new semantic possibilities regarding the relationship between the work of art, the individual and the urban space, provoking a reflection on the course of time and its ephemerality. The city birds are the main agents of the work, they perform the real action, that of dispelling PERMANENCE by swallowing
of the word inserted in the space.
Coyote Cego de Pedro Galiza, October 21, at 11am, at Largo do Carmo
Ceaselessly shouting his name, bringing out his raw presence in urban space, Pedro runs blindfolded like a quadruped, carrying 20 balloons tied to his body. With printed words such as “pop” or “kiss”, the performer encourages audience interaction based on these verbs.
Reveal/Rebel! by Lidya Ferreira, October 22, at 11 am, at the entrance of Rua Grande through Praça João Lisboa
What is your image of motherhood? What is your female image? What is your body image in the city? Urban Intervention Reveals/Rebels! , based on photoperformance, invites women to experience an aesthetic experience to question and break with discourses and practices that intend to stereotype them, nullifying the existence of their identity specificities and self-representation. For this purpose, an electronic totem will be used, where each woman will be able to create with her body and some objects, three images referring to maternity, feminine and body in the city.
Performance by Andrea Guzman (Chile | SP), October 22, at 4 pm, leaving the CCVM through the streets of the Center
In this action, the artist proposes a relationship between sculpture and urban performance, using hair as a political territory and the semantic object. Based on a subjective study of the historic center of São Luís and its characteristics, the artist walks along the streets and finishes the action with a kind of “rite”.
Meet the artists
Open Conversations
October 14, 7:00pm – Living the city – looks and experiences in the center of São Luís
with: Maria de Jesus (Dijé), Jandir Gonçalves and Vicente Martins Jr.
Presentation and mediation: Ubiratã Trindade
This conversation proposes a debate on the historic center of São Luís and its powers for aesthetic creation. From the viewpoint of the guests, we will talk about the importance and symbolism of the street for life, for the creation process and to establish fields of memory and identities, the street as a place of aesthetic experiences in their daily lives and as a platform for artistic manifestations, the street as a vital place for the relations with the city.
October 15, 7:00 p.m. — Urban Poetics – artistic making in the landscape
with: Francis Wilker, Leônidas Portella and Lucas Länder.
Presentation and mediation: Abimaelson Santos.
What can the street offer for artistic creation and what can artistic creation offer the street? In this debate, artists will focus on the various possibilities of creation for the context of the street and landscape, and how artistic languages can be enhanced by having the public space as a platform for creation and aesthetic experience.
October 19, at 7:00 p.m. — Rua das Mulheres
with Valda Lino, Andrea Guzmán Jerez and Lidya Ferreira
Presentation and mediation: Rose Panet
The street, as a condition of existence and aesthetic creation for women, enters into debate in this conversation circle. The guests will point out what are the main issues that the relations between art and the street promote in their trajectories, point out the powers of the themes addressed in their creations and in their professional positions. The women’s street, as a space of revolution.
October 21, 7:00 p.m. – Conversations about the street: body, image and performance
with Áurea Maranhão, Pedro Galiza, Wilka Sales and Erivelto Viana.
Presentation and mediation: Calu Zabel
In order to build an open, fluid and transversal debate, the invited artists will share their ways of operationalizing in the context of the street and, starting from their creative experiences, they will present questions, clues, procedures, paths and poetics that cross their research and experimentations in urban space.