COVERED BY THE SKY is a collection of installations and performances conceived by the choreographer Gustavo Ciríaco in dialogue with artists from Portugal, Brazil, Argentina and Chile. The project thus takes on as a challenge the possibility of providing the general public with a privileged view of the fabrication of space by unique artists from different art fields, from music to sculpture, from dance to the visual arts.
Designed for indoor public space (halls, galleries, theaters, museums) and outdoors (patios, parks or gardens), the set of installations of a sound, sculptural, performative and/or visual nature invite the visitor to sensorially re-experience lived landscapes. by artists.
The project revisits the experiences of Portuguese artists Jonathan Uliel Saldanha (Music), Cláudia Dias (Dance), João Gabriel Oliveira (Painting), Brazilian artists Luciana Lara (Dance), Michelle Moura (Dance), João Saldanha (Dance), Argentinian Ana Laura Lozza and Barbara Hang (Dance), by Chilean Javiera Péon-Veiga (Dance and Performance). By immersing in the works and in dialogues with Portuguese and Latin American artists, the desire is to make visible and experiential the dynamic process through behind their particular ephemeral architectures and to help rethink the unnameable they summon. These artists, despite acting so differently among themselves and in different fields of art, have a trait that brings them together: the notion of territory, its poetic transformation towards a universe of their own.
RODA VIVA | Spinning Wheel
In the works of choreographer Cláudia Dias, space and time become equivalent in the construction of an arena for political debate, concretizing the ethical parameters that guide her as an artist and a citizen. In Roda Viva, the experience as a child of seeing Guernica upside down from the sofa of his childhood home, marks his daily life with a painting that goes beyond the condition of a work of art, and gains the social and political sphere as a positioning in relation to the world and to a great injustice: the bombing of the Spanish city of Guernica with the approval of the central government. How to position art as a critical stance in the world, or rather, how to invite the audience to articulate and gain awareness of the pressing issues of the moment through a performative device? Between testimony and exposition, scrutinizing and showing, voyeurism and the event, which world guides, builds and brings us together? In a space populated by words and construction materials (brick, stone, sand, wood, tiles, bags, scaffolding, etc.), the public is divided at the entrance into two groups and distinct spaces through a question and an answer: to show or to watch? In a game between acting and witnessing, what words do we activate and what positions do we take between these two specters of the same world?