(con)fundir
Performance/Installation & Conference
2, 3 July 2024 | Galeria Capelo Norte | MNAC - National Museum of Contemporary Art
Photos: Stephan Jürgens
By: A. Isa Araújo, André Carvalho, Gonçalo Alegria, Stephan Jürgens
“Corpo líquido e plástico”
Body is environment, it is nature. All the materials in the environment pass through the body, are fluid, pass through it as it traverses the world, being the world, joining the threads that weave it and mixing in them.
"Corpo líquido e plástico" (liquid and plastic body) it’s an umbrella title for a series of open-ended works on the climate crisis, examining power relations and hierarchies between human beings and non-humans, questioning the dominant anthropocentric paradigm that separates humans from the rest of nature and delving into the dynamics of nature-as-other, otherness and the intricate interplay on the perceptual boundaries between interior and exterior.
Corpo líquido e plástico 1.5
Performance/Installation, hybrid, interactive, with audience participation in guided ecosomatic practice
Photos: Stephan Jürgens
112, ESTC, Lisbon, 2024
Corpo líquido e plástico 2.0
Live performance & Live streamed audiovisual performance
with sound artist Cláudio Sousa
Photos: Patrícia Faustino
Festival Jardins Abertos, Estufa Fria, Lisbon, PT 2022
The live performance takes place in Estufa Fria (Cold Greenhouse) whose grounds used to house a basalt extraction quarry. This historical background of extractivism, the colonial legacy of collecting and exhibiting 'exotic' plants, juxtaposed with the current role of the greenhouse as a 'green refuge' in Lisbon's city center, alongside its wooden lath roofing that blurs the boundaries between inside and outside, provide a complex context to further explore the climate crisis-related issues that are developed in various cycles of the project.
The performance weaves together live music creation, videos used in previous cycles and new ones produced on site, in an audiovisual dialogue produced and manipulated in real-time during a live stream. The audience is invited to engage in this accumulation of layers by connecting on mobile devices to the live stream while walking through the Estufa Fria and choosing how to interact with the audiovisual media, the performers and the space.
Watch the live stream recording via the image above
Corpo líquido e plástico 1.0
Text, Photography, Video, Performance for camera
Still frames from various “Corpo líquido e plástico 1.0” videos
A-con-tecer: In Portuguese acontecer means to happen, to become.
When hyphenated
“a-” means “to”,
“-con-” means “with”, “together”,
“-tecer” means “weaving”.
acontecer comes from the latin CONTINGERE where
“CON-” means “with”
TINGERE is to touch, to reach, to join with, to move
a-con-tecer is to-weave-with, co-weaving, co-happening, co-becoming in movement, entangled.
This video art piece is part of Liquid and Plastic body 1.0
A. Isa Araújo 2021
Corpo líquido e plástico 0.5
Performance
Corpo líquido e plástico 0.0,5
Installation
Photo: Michel Christelbach
#EnActBxl Sunday, 27 June, SeeU, Brussels
Photo: Patrícia Faustino
KÖRPER Performance Art Festival, Centro de Artes, C.R., PT
Corpo líquido e plástico 0.0
Screendance
Finalist, SWIFF Film Festival, USA, 2023
LISBIFF • Lisboa Indie Film Festival, Lisbon, PT, 2023
Best ECO Work, Sea of Art International Film Festival, Stavanger, NO, 2023
Imajitari - Dance Film Festival, Jakarta, ID, 2022
OurFestival8 Multidisciplinary Fest., Athens, GR, 2022
Duemila30 Sustainability Film Festival, Milan, IT, 2022
Desassossego short film festival, Porto, PT, 2022
Marmostra short film festival, Tocha, PT, 2021
Creation, Direction and Interpretation: A. Isa Araújo
Sound and Artistic collaboration: Cláudio Sousa
Participants (movement testimonies): Beatriz Ioty, Carina Carvalho, Carlos Alves, Catarina Leandro, Débora Marcussi, Isadora Goulart, Rita Bastos
Participants (audio testimonies): A. Correia, A. Sousa, B.I., D.M., M. Correia, T. Luzio, S. Conceição, R. Correia
Video art | 2020 | 10 minutes
Still frames from video art piece.
Exercise on Suspension
Traces of action on paper
Photos: Pedro Vaz & A. Isa Araújo
Photo: Centro Mutável
Aproximação e Afastamento: criação no meio natural, Pedro Vaz, Centro Mutável, Montemor-o-Novo, PT
Diptych. Organic materials on paper, 55X35 cm
Centro Mutável II, collective exhibition, Galeria Faculdade Belas Artes, PT, 2024
Centro Mutável, collective exhibition, Galeria Municipal Montemor-o-Novo, PT, 2023
“Îebyra” screendace
by isadora goulart
with A. Isa Araújo, Beatriz Ioty, Carina Carvalho, Débora Marcussi, Isadora Goulart, Joana Sarabando
Îebyra, screendance by Isadora Goulart, Porto, PT, 2020
Performers: A. Isa Araújo, Beatriz Ioty, Carina Carvalho, Débora Marcussi, Isadora Goulart, Joana Sarabando
Camera: A. Isa Araújo
Sound composition: Olívia Silva
“Dança sobre a arquitectura” sound art & dance performance
by Diogo Borges, João Maia e Silva, Miguel Moreno, Olívia Silva
with A. Isa Araújo, Carlos Alves
The fascination with the sounds that arise from the movements of the dancers in dance shows - the steps, the falls, the friction on the floor - shaped by the acoustic character of the room, the stage, the objects, was what gave shape to the project. It searches the possibility of creating a dance about architecture, through a choreography that makes us listen to the space, through the interaction of the performers with it. This is the metaphor of the project: a dance whose object is space.
Duration: 2h
• Creative Laboratory, Master in Arts and Sound Technologies, ESMAE, Porto, Portugal, 2020;
“Outro Corpo Outro”
by Mr.Lazy&Mme.Leisure and Patrícia Shenriq
bodies becoming-with bodies
Conception, Video & Interpretation: A. Isa Araújo
Conception & Live sonography: o_iElectricista
Conception, Sculptures & Costume: Patrícia Shenriq
Duration: 30min
LPM [canceled due to Covid-19], Spin Time Labs, Rome, IT, 2020
Cornea Attack, Art Festival, Parque D. Carlos, Caldas da Rainha, PT., 2019
Espaço artístico de Senhor Jacinto, Caldas da Rainha, PT., 2019
CLN23, Caldas da Rainha, PT., 2019
MoitaMostra, Castro D'Aire, Viseu, PT., 2019
“Back to square zero”
by Mr.Lazy&Mme.Leisure
Conception, interpretation, live video manipulation: A. Isa Araújo
Live sonography and artistic collaboration: o_iElectricista
Costume & text: Sónia da Silva
Choreographic creation support: Marta Baptista
Duration: 30min
Art House, United C, Eindhoven, NL., 2019
Contemporary Dance Festival, Camões Auditorium, Lisbon, PT., 2019
Gato Vermelho Performance cycle, Caldas da Rainha, PT., 2019
Associação de Arte e Imagem, Seia, PT., 2018
MoitaMostra, Castro D'Aire, Viseu, PT., 2018
Noites da Lua Azul, C.R., PT., 2018
LPM, Mattatoio, Rome, IT, 2018
“Du-ue-et”
by Mark Coniglio
Interactive dance performance by Mark Coniglio with A. Isa Araújo and Tiffany Rhynard
Live Performers Meeting, Mattatoio di roma, Roma, Italy, 2018
“On / Off”: open theremin in conversation with light theremin
by Mr.Lazy&Mme.Leisure
Interactive performance with live drawing and video, open theremin and light theremin.
Duration: 20min
Sound Art Festival [canceled due to Covid-19], FBAUP, Porto, PT, 2020
A Porta Festival, Casa Plástica, Leiria, PT, 2018
“Unneutral”
by Mr. Lazy & Mme. Leisure
Duration: 30min aprox
LPM, Mattatoio, Rome, IT, 2018
Ciclo da Primavera, Caldas da Rainha, PT, 2018
Fábrica do Braço de Prata, Lisbon, PT, 2018
Live Performers Meeting, Amsterdam, NL., 2017
Cornea Attack 1.1 Video Art Festival, Centro de Artes, PT, 2017
AVBrothel, AV Performance meeting, PT, 2017
CLN21, Caldas da Rainha, PT, 2017
