Atlas of the Mouth by Gaya de Medeiros
Meu Profano Corpo Santo de Keyla Brasil
- 08.07 2022
- Mostra BRABA
- Open Studio
- Espaço Alkantara
- ENTRADA LIVRE, MEDIANTE RESERVA
- ages 18+
- 45 MIN
Sessão Esgotada
Following an avant-premiere at Teatro Nacional D. Maria II during the 2021 Alkantara Festival, Atlas da Boca by Gaya de Medeiros will premiere this summer at Espaço Alkantara.
In Atlas of the Mouth, two trans bodies investigate the mouth as a place of many intersections: words, identity, and voice; public and private; eroticism and politics. The performance seeks to contribute new narratives, exploring entries that are created from the mouth out and understood from the mouth in.
Join us for a conversation with the artists and invited guests after each performance (in Portuguese).
Credits
Directed and produced by Gaya de Medeiros Cocreated and performed by Ary Zara, Gaya de Medeiros Designer, provocateur, and creator of the "Brief Atlas da Boca" João Emediato Videos Ary Zara Light and set design João Pedro Fonseca Costumes Kahumbi (Feiticeire) Sound technician Milton Estevam Translation and subtitles Joana Frazão Coproduced by Alkantara and Companhia Olga Roriz Management Irreal Supported by Self-Mistake Institutional Support República Portuguesa - Cultura | DGARTES - Direção Geral das Artes
Meu Profano Corpo Santo de Keyla Brasil
“Meu Profano Corpo Santo”, é uma performance que investiga as insurgências corpóreas e de gênero através da mimese da própria vida da artista.
Nesta performance uma personagem que vive presa num submundo onde não existem limites para alcançar o ápice do desejo, está em busca de compreender as relações de seu corpo com algo da ordem do divino, que insiste em acusá-la de blasfêmia apenas existir. Em crescente inquirição, a artista faz uso de objetos imaculados numa cerimônia particular que tenta resolver o conflito da comunhão do sagrado e do profano em si. Ao alçar uma investigação que permeia seu gênero, a artista empresta seu corpo para criar e explorar cartografias de um percurso incômodo.
Ficha Artística
Concepção e interpretação Keyla Brasil Produção Fred Paranhos Agradecimentos CASA T
Gaya de Medeiros is a trans woman, dancer, drag queen, choreographer, producer, and director. She is trained in animation, ballet, contemporary dance, and dramaturgy. She danced with Companhia de Dança do Palácio das Artes for nine years. Gaya has created three solos (É o amor outra vez, Proteína Desnaturada and After Party) and was a cofounder and producer of Rede Sola de dança. She has choreographed for Drag Taste Lisbon (2019-2021). In Portugal, she has worked with Gustavo Ciríaco and Tiago Cadete, among others. In 2021 she founded BRABA, a platform that aims...
Ary Zara is a non-binary trans person, who studied film at Universidade Lusófona and University of Texas at Austin. Recepient of a ZON award and with a script for a feature length film sold to Ukbar Filmes, they/he works on queer video esthetics and is currently in pre-production for a short film funded by ICA and produced by Take It Easy. They/he founded the activist project T Guys Cuddly Too, through which they/he has participated as a speaker in various events and delivers workshops in businesses and schools.
Keyla Brasil is a multidisciplinary artist probing her artistic “becoming” through her political-trans body. By shifting gazes and discourses, her bodygraphy permeates the inventiveness of other possible existences, and the way they socially relate on the borders of a territory where segregation is the norm. In recent years, the artist's work has been heading in the direction of enabling actions in a context of “trans-artvism”. She has a degree in theatre from the Federal University of Pará and has worked for many years in fringe theatre, a way of taking the...