Category: stage

Performance Art during first COVID19 shut-down. A thought about the individual and industrial confinement which in days has changed the environmental footprint of mankind. which in days has become a void for thousands of arts and culture people.

Made up of three acts:

The One Last Hug – representing the social estrangement that current generations had never experienced before. Suddenly everything is dangerous; the closeness; the touch; the unknown. Separation without farewells.

The Tip – Suddenly artists depend more than ever on support to survive. All stage cultural activity is suspended. Longing for government support.

The Saw – the ecological footprint of the halting of human activity made itself apparent in the satellite images. Within weeks the air became cleaner, noise attenuated, skies clearer. Then what? When we no longer need masks?

By Joao Espanca Bacelar
Music: João Cágado | guest artist: André Sier | co-performer: Claudia Silvano
Video Contributions: Carlos Moura Carvalho, Carla Dias, Vítor Moreira, José Russo, Feliciano Mira, Telmo Rocha, António Gavela, Lurdes Nobre, António Carrapato, Gonçalo Oliveira, Manuel Dias, Greg Moore, Alípio Carvalho Neto, Hugo Osga, Rodrigo Fonseca, Vítor Zambujo, Rosario Gonzaga, Pedro Rodrigues, Pedro Fazenda, Mariana Mata Passos.
Drone operator: Rui Fernandes – GMT Produções,
Audio: Manuel Chambel
May, 21st 2020, Évora, Portugal

Integration of video mapping in “O Cante Acusmatico de Pias”
(The acousmatic singing of Pias”

“O Cante Acusmatico de Pias” is an album / concert published by group “Os Camponeses de Pias” Singing choral from Alentejo (World Cultural Heritage – UNESCO). The result is the inclusion of acousmatic sound by Feliciano de Mira, Vítor Ruas and António Duarte with a live recording recorded in Musibéria, in Serpa, 2016.

A proposal of Feliciano de Mira and “Os Camopneses de Pias”  to the Municipality of Évora to participate in Festival Artes à Rua (Évora, July to September 2018) resulted in a production for the opening of the festival and in the presentation on July 12, 2018 in Praça of the Sertório. The invitation was extended to a challenge to accomplish a digital scenography, video over the surrounding architectural space, the Church of Salvador, in the same square area.

We used the facade of the Church for video mapping and integrated Feliciano’s artistic and semiotic studies, along with library images. I mainly use free software such as Processing, Openframeworks, VPT, Inkscape, Blender, Gimp and images / video from cooperative artist sharing libraries such as Pixabay.com or Videvo.com.

In search of an organic expression performance, rather than technological, we decided to create the real-time graphic effects with image manipulation and plastic arts. We used materials from simple drawing to half pen like water, oils and other objects. We adapted a room of the Teatro Garcia de Resende provided by the Municipality and with the support of CENDREV we set up a studio where during 10 days we drew a script for the performance.

 

 

 

 

The planning:
Technical area study, creation of technical guides for equipment forecasting, budgeting and institutional formalities.

 

 

 

 

 

A 10-piece piece is created, with 10 different projection scenarios related to each song.
The graphics resulted in an artistic reading about the presence of ecological concern in the cante alentejano texts. The acoustic intervention of António Duarte and Vitor Ruas evoke possible interpretations about the world’s today sonorities in contrast to the oral and artistic tradition.
This first show serves as a gauge to identify points to improve various aspects of the concert: Duration of scenes or performative rhythm, positioning of elements, lighting and sound.

I believe that with the clearness of the rhythm of visual arts intervention and a more intelligible logic in the acousmatic, the artistic possibilities can be cleared, above all, in the sense of making the event more fluid and continuously interesting for the public.

Production: Câmara Municipal de Évora
Thanks to the Diocese of Évora and Regional Directorate of Culture of the Alentejo
Presentation: Maria Marrafa
Audex Audio: Manuel Chambel – sound, Carlos Mavioso – light, support of Yoan Crochet,
Video projector: Luis Bombico

Évora, July 12, 2018

 

Video-mapping at the Iberian Routes concert from Polyphonic Choir Eborae Musica.
The open air auditorium, a beautiful spot for taking advantage of the awarded Siza Vieira’s rectilinear architecture at Malagueira place, in Evora.
Among Leonor Serpa Branco, visual artist, rehearsing ways of illustrating with the Iberian culture imagery. A plastic action in real time so that did not lose the organic of the performance.