performance

World of Interiors, 2010

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photo: Ana Borralho & João Galante

World of Interiors is a performance-installation with people lying on the floor, eyes closed, rather motionless.
The 15 performers are whispering the angry and poetic words of the playwright Rodrigo Garcia. The audience has to approach the performers bodies to understand what they are saying.  "World of Interiors" explores the border / relationship between spectators and the piece; it seeks to integrate the audience into the time and space of the performance and to identify the tensions between art and the codes that govern society. In this installation/performance, the spectator can enter and leave the performance space at will. He or she has the liberty to define how long to remain inside, whether to stay with one performer or move on to another one. Each performer has a different collage of texts to say. There is a score for the texts. They are part of a collective partition, with moments of silences, chorus and cannons.

"World of Interiors emerges out of Ana Borralho and João Galante’s unique parcours in the world of performing arts. Over the years the two artists have developed their research into a consistent and mature body of work; always hybrid, it traverses the boundaries of visual and performing arts." in Alkantara Festival 2010 program

Concept, Artistic direction, Light and Set design - Ana Borralho & João Galante
Text fragments of the theater writings of Rodrigo Garcia
Translation and dramaturgic collaboration - Tiago Rodrigues
Performers (Lisbon-Portugal) Ainhoa Vidal, Alina Bilokon, Antonia Buresi, André Duarte, Célia Jorge, Chris Scherer, Elisabete Fradique, Laurinda Chiungue, Luís Godinho, Maria Manuel Marques, Pedro Frutuoso, Pietro Romani, Renata Portas, Ricardo Barbosa, Rui de Sousa
Artistic consultancy - Fernando Ribeiro
Executive production - Ana Borralho, Mónica Samões, Miriam Vale
Production casaBranca
Co-production - alkantara festival, Museu Colecção Berardo, Útero - Associação Teatral / Espaço Land, CNDC - Centre National de Danse Contemporaine Angers
Artistic residency - Centre National de Danse Contemporaine Angers / França
Support - Atelier Re.Al, IEFP, Grande Cena, TNT- Manufacture de Chaussures, Bordeaux / França
Thanks to - Rodrigo Garcia, Mateo Feijó, Carlos Marquerie, Alexia Larrarté, Atelier Re.Al, Pedro Joel, Nec - Núcleo de Experimentação Coreográfica, Margarida Marecos, Walter Lauterer, Flávio Rodrigues, Lara Pires, Ana Margarida Carvalho, Roman Perona, Rui Dâmaso

Support for the presentation in Lisboa - Départs, Culture Programme of the European Union

casaBranca is a structure funded by Ministério da Cultura / Direcção-Geral das Artes

photo credits Vasco Célio
performance duration: 2 hours

Echoes of an anonymous shadow by Fernando L. Ribeiro 
Taking its title from an interior decorating magazine, “World of Interiors” turns this reference inside out by suppressing any vestige of a décor that might encourage the autonomy of its users. Human presence is communicated by successive dislocations of body and voice and is passed orally from sender to receiver. Complete understanding requires an interminable de-multiplication of muted words that the receiver perceives as subliminal echoes of his conscience. Just as space is filled with voices that are strange to its bearers – prosthetic and inanimate bodies – our consciousness is put into action through ventriloquism, inherent to citizens who make use of anonymity as a system of camouflage. The fairy-like qualities of verbal discourse do not match the somber neutrality of the body and, in this way, the intensity of the Other voice, interior, that to the exterior world materializes as a suspicious shadow about to be definitively silenced.

WORLD OF INTERIORS VIDEO (premiere in Alkantara Festival at Museum Berardo Collection, Lisbon-Portugal, 2010)

http://vimeo.com/13202066

WORLD OF INTERIORS VIDEO (from the work-in-progress at CNDC Angers-France, 2010)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mBSi2ko1k0E&feature=related

Photos: Vasco Célio at Alkantara Festival / Berardo Collection Museum, Lisbon-Portugal
Photos: Sylvain Couzinet-Jacques at ActOral Festival, Marseille-France