MANT(R)A, André Braga & Cláudia Figueiredo
MANT(R)A
André Braga & Cláudia Figueiredo
2 September
8.00pm
Ferro, Central Elétrica
MANT(R)A is a creation laboratory focused on geophilia, tellurism, and the vitality of matter, which we will share during the initial stage of the process.
“Reinventing the subject’s relationship with the body, with the phantom, with the passing of time, with the ‘mysteries’ of life and death” is a kind of motto of Guattari’s ‘mental ecosophy’ that we wish to adopt as our mantra.
Experimenting with other temporalities — of the earth, the stone, the vegetal, the water — and focusing on a haptic approach, centered on the skin, are the general principles guiding us into the work: the physical and imagetic engines to reach other thresholds and forms of thought.
MANT(R)A also proposes a revisiting of a plastic and conceptual material that was part of Cratera: an immense ground-cloak of living, moving hair.
Artistic Info
Artistic Direction: André Braga & Cláudia Figueiredo
Dramaturgy: Cláudia Figueiredo
Space: André Braga, based on the “hair-blanket” created with Pedro Azevedo for Cratera
Sound Design: João Sarnadas
Co-creation, Material Development and Performance: Ana Rita Xavier, Daniela Cruz, Ramon Lima
Production: Ana Carvalhosa (Direction) and Joana Mesquita Alves
Bio
André Braga & Cláudia Figueiredo develop their work together since they founded the cooperative in 1999.
The work on a space of frontier space and the disciplinary mixtures is the main feature of their career. For their creations they summon a collective of creators from various fields: dance, theater, visual arts, music and cinema.
The poetic approach of the dramaturgical universes, the intensely physical nature of the proposals and the strength of the plastic and musical components are striking features of the project.
After 10 years of existence, their artistic career is marked by a certain aesthetic shift towards a greater harshness and detachment.
Man in his dual and complex nature and realities full of the very proper coexistence of several opposites occupy now the core of our thoughts. Projects that work with the community and make the territory and the people who inhabit it the main creative material have also been assuming a strong presence.
