OU | 6 June, Auditório Municipal do Fórum Cultural do Seixal

André Braga & Cláudia Figueiredo with Panaibra Canda

6 June 2026 | Auditório Municipal do Fórum Cultural do Seixal, Seixal
11 June 2026 | Teatrão, Coimbra

“- The sea is a world. There is life in the sea. There are mountains, plants, wind and fish. There is human life in the depths”.

Inspired by Drexciya’s mythology, which imagines an underwater people descended from African slaves who were thrown into the sea during the Atlantic crossing, and by the testimony of a healer from Inhambane about her experiences with the spirits of the sea, OU reflects on multiple encounters. The meeting of two bodies, with their strengths, their abstractions, their histories, their wills. The encounter between sea and land, the visible and the invisible, the ancestral and the contemporary, the spiritual and the down-to-earth.

The result of a collaboration between André Braga & Cláudia Figueiredo and Panaibra Canda, OU took as its starting point the landscape of Inhambane, a land of family and colonial memories, where the present mixes with the reverberations of the past.

“Memory is rooted in the concrete, in spaces, gestures, images and objects”. We are interested in thinking about History from other perspectives, other voices, other languages and from a crossed thinking that overlaps past, present and future. We are interested in continuing our research into what Paul Carter called the “politics of the ground”: “a new way of stepping that doesn’t flatten the ground, but lets the ground touch the body, determine gestures, movements, in a new social choreography”.