EXHIBITIONS
1) NOVE NOVOS – NEUN NEUE
Emerging Architects from Brazil
DAM – 20.09.2013: 12.01.2014
www.dam-online.de
Nine Brazilian new-generation architectural offices will be presented in this exhibition.
Three of them are based in Belo Horizonte: Arquitetos Associados, BCMF and Rizoma;
Rio de Janeiro is home to Carla Juaçaba and Jacobsen, while Studio Paralelo, which is
located in Porto Alegre, in the South, was also selected. The remaining three, Corsi
Hirano, Metro and Nitsche are based in São Paulo. Whereas the last building boom was
back in the 1970s, when a large number of public buildings were erected (by Oscar
Niemeyer, Lucio Costa, Paulo Mendes da Rocha, Lina Bo Bardi, Vilanova Artigas,
among others), today it is mainly private structures that are being built. A special zone
in the exhibition will be devoted to the Inhotim private art and architecture gardens
outside Belo Horizonte. In collaboration with Instituto Tomie Ohtake, Fernando
Serapião (Monolito Magazine) and Leonardo Finotti, kindly supported by Vitra
Curators. Editors of the catalog are Ricardo Ohtake, Peter Cachola Schmal, Anna
Scheuermann.
2) alex wollner visual design. Graphic design from Brazil
Museum Angewandte Kunst: 21.09.2013 – 2.02.2014
www.museumangewandtekunst.de
Born in São Paulo in 1928, Alexandre Wollner is one of the world’s most important
graphic designers of the second half of the 20th century. He plays a prominent role in
the artistic, cultural and economic establishment of modern Brazilian design. Whereas
Wollner enjoys great popularity in South America, in Germany his oeuvre has yet to be
discovered in all its breadth. The exhibition will be the first major show to devote itself
to that oeuvre in Europe. Some 120 works by the designer will provide an overview,
and special attention will be directed towards the strong influence of the Hochschule für
Gestaltung in Ulm, where Wollner spent the years from 1953 to 1958, as well as
towards the Brazilian Wollner’s relationship with European culture. The extensive
programme strives to define the characteristics that make Brazilian design unique.
Curators: Prof. Dr. Klaus Klemp and Julia Koch in cooperation with Studio
Wollner. Project management in Brazil: Gunter Neuhaus.
3) CAPACETE
Portikus: 22.09 – 20.10.2013
www.portikus.de
The exhibition is organized by Helmut Batista, the founder of the research-based
residency program CAPACETE Entertainments, which is based in Rio de Janeiro and
São Paulo. It brings together multiple voices from their rich 16-year-long activity.
Expanding on CAPACETE´s involvement in the field of cultural production in Brazil,
the exhibition at Portikus features new work that will on the one hand reflect on this
unique history, and on the other create a multi-layered commentary on the current
Brazilian situation. The project aims at “cannibalizing” Brazil’s very own culture –
drawing on aspects of Anthropophagia and Tropicalismo that are rooted in Brazilian
cultural discourse – and thereby raising questions around paradoxical moments within
the country’s current status quo. CAPACETE at Portikus features a series of live events,
performances, installations, and written contributions by Rogerio Duarte, Arto Lindsay,
Siri, Amilcar Packer, Manuel Raeder, Daniela Castro, Alexandre Vogler, Dj Lonely,
Baba Electronica and Helmut Batista.
4) MODERN BRAZIL 1940-1964. Photographs by Marcel Gautherot,
José Medeiros, Hans Günter Fleig und Thomaz Farkas, from the IMS
Museum für Fotografie (Berlin): 27.09.2013 – 5.1.2014
www.smb.museum
These four photographers portray Brazil’s path to modernity and paint a multifaceted
picture of the country in these times of change. Three of these photographers emigrated
from Europe: Thomaz Farkas from Hungary, Marcel Gautherot from France and Hans
Günter Fly from Germany. José Medeiros’ images depict Rio de Janeiro, on the beach
and at Carnival time, as well as the life and rituals of the city’s high society. The visual
language of the European New Vision can be observed in Thomaz Farkas’
photojournalistic work. Marcel Gautherot creates photographic icons with his records of
folk rites and the construction of Brasília. Hans Günter Fly’s industrial photographs are
a testament to technological progress. The exhibition, with works from the Art Library Collection of Photography / SPK State Museums of Berlin, the Prussian Cultural
Heritage Foundation and the Moreira Salles Institute, is presented in collaboration with
the Ibero-American Institute.
5) HÉLIO OITICICA
Museum für Moderne Kunst (MMK): 28.9.2013 – 12.1.2014
www.mmk-frankfurt.de
Palmengarten: 31.8 – 27.10. 2013
www.palmengarten.de
The most comprehensive retrospective of the prominent Brazilian artist Hélio Oiticica
(1937–1980) presents works from all phases of his career. The exhibition encompasses
his early neo-Concrete abstract paintings, reliefs which float freely in space and room
installations which can be entered and explored by the visitors. Oiticica is a pioneer of
participatory art, which opens up new realms of experience through the viewer's active
participation. Concurrently with Joseph Beuys in Germany, Oiticica likewise strove to
break down the nature of finality in art and to make it accessible to society and vice
versa. The exhibition will be enhanced by three works presented at the Palmengarten
from 31 August to 27 October 2013. The Goethe-Universität Frankfurt's Curatorial
Studies has developed an accompanying program featuring films, concerts and
performances. Curators: César Oiticica Filho and Fernando Cocchiarale in cooperation
with Peter Gorschlüter, deputy director of the MMK.
6) BRASILIANA. Installations from 1960 to the present
Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt: 2.10.2013 – 5. 1. 2014
www.schirn.de
This exhibition presents a total of eight large installations including key figures that
today are considered classics: Hélio Oiticica/Neville D’Almeida and Lygia Clark,
Tunga or Cildo Meireles, not to mention works by members of a younger generation,
from Ernesto Neto to Maria Nepomuceno. All of them demonstrate the specifically
Brazilian element of their art, in which life is not driven solely by an existential theme,
but by communication, by the skin of things, by touch, by smell. The synthesis of
elements from different cultures engenders self-determined, characteristic Brazilian art
that is powerful, very expressive, and in which a sensory, physical and intellectual
penetration of art plays a key role. List of artists: Lygia Clark, Dias & Riedweg, Cildo
Meireles, Maria Nepomuceno, Ernesto Neto, Hélio Oiticica/Neville D’Almeida,
Henrique Oliveira, Tunga. Curator: Dr. Martina Weinhart (Schirn Kunsthalle).
7) STREET ART BRAZIL
Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt: 5.09 – 27.10.2013
www.schirn.de
For the first time in Germany Schirn Kunsthalle is showcasing the diversity of Brazilian
graffiti art. Brazil’s metropolises are home to some of the most vibrant and artistically
interesting graffiti communities in the world. This colorful, dynamic and unique
movement differs sharply, both in terms of content and aesthetically, from the US and
European street art scenes. Twelve artists and artists’ groups from São Paulo and other
Brazilian metropolises have been invited to paint their images throughout Frankfurt,
starting with the Schirn’s facade. The venues chosen will include the ground at
Frankfurt’s Hauptwache, bridge piers over the Main, bank facades, the Matthäus
Church, a subway train and the former City Police HQ. In addition to the catalog on the
exhibition, SCHIRN has developed an App that will guide our visitors around town and
provides information on the Brazilian scene in the form of atmosphere-filled films,
photos and background texts.
8) “..looking forwards rather than backwards…” GERMAN EXILE
IN BRAZIL 1933-45
Deutsche National Bibliothek: 8.10.2013 – 31.05.2014
www.dnb.de
Between 1933 and 1945 Brazil provided refuge to approximately 16,000 to 19,000
German-speaking exiles. Thus, it became the most important receiving country in South
America besides Argentina. The exhibition starts with the political and historical
context in Brazil in the 1930s and 1940s. Based on this, it shows the refugees’ work in
culture, science and economy. Moreover, it describes the mutual cultural exchange
between the exiles and famous Brazilian intellectuals and artists. Curators: Dr. Sylvia
Asmus, head of the German National Library’s German Exile Archive 1933-1945; Dr.
Marlen Eckl, Research associate at the Center for Studies on Ethnicity, Racism and
Discrimination at the University of São Paulo (USP) and the Shoah Institute of Human
Rights.
9) BEYOND THE LIBRARY
Frankfurt Book Fair: 9-13.10.2013
Hall 4.1, Booth P35
The exhibition Beyond the Library brings together a series of works that take the form
of books, revealing two aspects of these objects: their shape and their function. The
works shown here explore the spatiality of books, both mundane and mysterious, with
the naturalness of someone who belongs to the universe created by these objects. In this
study of 12 Brazilian artists working with the format of the book, Beyond the Library
questions our relationship to this object while offering viewers a fresh insight into
current Brazilian contemporary art. List of artists: Ana Luiza Dias Batista, Chiara Banfi,
Edith Derdyk, Daniel Escobar, Fábio Morais, Jimson Vilela, Lucas Simões, Lucia
Mindlin Loeb, Marcius Galan, Marcelo Silveira, Marilá Dardot, Odires Mlászho.
Curator: Ana Luiza Fonseca.
10) WILD HOUSE. Regina Silveira
Main Palais, Frankfurt am Main
Wild House is a project done in conjunction with a series of interventions by Regina
Silveira, and seeks to virtually transform architecture. The work occupies the three
floors of the Main Palais in Frankfurt, with installations, laser intervention in the garden
and video projection in the basement. One of the highlights is the installation Tropel
Reversed, in which animal tracks in an imaginary escapade represent an invasion of the
Main Palais. Visitors can see phantasmagoric footprints of animals that have left marks
and suddenly disappeared. The work alludes to the idea of the cannibalism (as in
cultural ravaging) of Modernism, an avant-garde movement of the twentieth century in
Brazil that renewed the debate on national identity. Downstairs in the Main Palais, there
will be the projection of Tracks, a video animation that explores the same poetic
universe of sudden and unexpected invasion. The project includes the Wild Walk
animation laser, which can be seen at night in the garden. Also on display will be digital
sketches, video documentaries, behind the scenes and documents that contextualize, in
the artist's work, the Wild House.
MUSIC
1) Criolo
Museumsuferfest
Freitag/ Friday, 23.08
21 Uhr/ 9 pm
The child of migrants from the Northeast of Brazil to the commercial hub of São Paulo,
Kleber Gomes aka Criolo grew up in Grajaú (Zona Sul), one of the many shanty towns
that circle this modern mega-city. Using music to try to make sense of the city´s crazed
reality, Criolo does not claim to speak for everybody; he just wants to channel all that
rage and hope, and to tell it like it is. Writing his first song aged 11, hip-hop was his
first love but now Criolo´s expression has developed an adventurous range without
losing any of its intensity. The hard-hitting MC of the people remains, but added to this
is the voice of a poet, singer and composer who reaches out to embrace afrobeat, samba,
reggae as well as rap. His album Nó na orelha (Knot in the Ear) was one of the most
successful Brazilian releases of 2011 and a remarkable breakthrough by an underground
name into mainstream spotlight. It was produced by Marcelo Cabral and celebrated
Nação Zumbi producer Daniel Ganjaman.
2) Lenine & Orquestra Martin Fondse
Museumsuferfest
Samstag/ Saturday, 24.08
20.00 Uhr/ 8 pm
A Brazilian musician, citizen of the world, who was born in Recife (Northeast of Brazil)
and lives in Rio de Janeiro, Lenine’s compositions carry a mixture of influences from
various cultural expressions and numerous musical genres; they defy any one label. The
singer, songwriter, record producer and arranger emerged in the 1990s as one of the top
names in Brazilian music. He won five Latin Grammys, has ten albums released and
many contributions to albums by other artists. To celebrate their 30-year career, Lenine
joins Dutch maestro Martin Fondse (winner of the prestigious Edison Award - 2012 /
National Jazz) and his modern orchestra in the project "The Bridge", which will be
presented in this show at the Museumsuferfest. With every new album released, Lenine
gathers new fans, positive reviews and awards. He has played in dozens of countries
and in major music festivals around the world, such as Roskilde (Denmark), Womad,
founded by Peter Gabriel (England, Spain and Canary Islands), Festival of Montreal
(Canada) and Eurockéennes (France).
3) Barbatuques
Museumsuferfest
Sonntag/ Sunday, 25.08
20 Uhr/ 8 pm
An international standard in body percussion, the group produces organic music using
their own bodies as musical instruments. Different melodies and rhythms are created
from voice effects and exploration of sounds produced by the human body. The result is
amazing. Barbatuques assumes that each individual has a unique body sound that can
find in collectiveness the ability to produce melodies and harmonies. The artistic and
educational base of the group was founded in 1996 by the musician Fernando Barba.
The group has 15 members: André Hosoi, Marcelo Pretto, Andrew Venegas, Dani Zulu,
Flavia Maia, Giba Alves, João Simão, Lu Horta, Heloiza Ribeiro, Mairah Rocha,
Maurice Maas, Renato Epstein, Charles Raszl and Lu Cestari. In 2012 Barbatuques
released its first album for children, Tum Pá, and the group has two other albums:
Corpo do som (2002) and O seguinte é esse (2005), as well as the DVD Corpo do som
ao vivo (2007).
4) Lucas Santtana along with Jards Macalé and Jorge Mautner
Tropicália Yesterday Today
Palmengarten
Freitag, Samstag/ Friday, Saturday, 30, 31 August
19.30 Uhr/ 7.30 pm
Lucas Santtana is one of the successors of Tropicalia. But although his work is
undoubtedly influenced by this tremendously important Brazilian pop music movement
of the 1960s and 1970s, it goes beyond that. Tropicália ontem e hoje mixes new
interpretations of classics with new compositions. He is supported during the show by
two stars of the Tropicalia movement, the inventive Jards Macalé and Jorge Mautner.
5) Guinga & Quinteto Villa-Lobos
Palmengarten
Sonntag/ Sunday,1.09
11 Uhr Matinée Brasilien/ 11 am
Rasgando seda means tearing silk and is a popular expression in Portuguese meaning
that you are paying homage or a respectful compliment to someone, or to someone’s
work of art. The Villa-Lobos Quintet, certainly the most enduring Brazilian chamber
music group, is celebrating 50 years of uninterrupted existence, always marked by an
unparalleled level of excellence. For many years, the Quintet has played Guinga’s
pieces, and devoted an entire disc to him, in recognition (or “rasgando seda”) of the
depth of his creative work and his importance to the Brazilian music scene. The album
Rasgando seda: Guinga + Quinteto Villa-Lobos, launched to celebrate this anniversary
and recorded by the Sesc label, was nominated for the 2012 Latin Grammy as Best
Instrumental of the Year. The show features works by composer Guinga with new
arrangements. With Rubem Schuenk (flute), Luis Carlos Justi (oboe), Paulo Sérgio
Santos (clarinet), Philip Doyle (horn), Aloysio Fagerlande (bassoon) and Guinga
(acoustic guitar).
6) Zélia Duncan
A voice from Brazil sings Itamar Assumpção
hr Sendesaal
Donnerstag/ Thursday, 5.09
19 Uhr/ 7 pm
The acclaimed singer Zélia Duncan has performed in many countries. The show pays
homage to one of the most prolific Brazilian composers and musicians, Itamar
Assumpção (1949-2003), a great grandson of Angolan slaves, who dominated the
alternative scene in São Paulo in the 1970s and 1980s with a movement called
Vanguarda paulista. Zélia is a singer with a lot of soul in her voice. She’s also a
guitarist and a songwriter and combines in her work Brazilian folk, pop, rock and many
other Brazilian rhythms. In Germany, she´s playing for the first time with Ezio Filho
(bass), Léo Brandão (keyboard & accordion), Webster Santos (guitars), Christiaan
Oyens (guitars and percussion), Jadna Zimmermann (percussion).
7) Fabiana Cozza & hr- Bigband
hr-Sendesaal
Freitag/Friday, 6.09
20 Uhr/ 8 pm
Bossa Nova and other popular sounds from Brazil performed by a spirited and versatile
new voice from Brazil. In this concert, specially created for the program in partnership
with the hr-Bigband, Fabiana Cozza presents a repertoire of Jazz, Bossa and Samba.
The hr-Bigband has already demonstrated its expertise in the field of Brazilian music, in
projects with artists such as Tania Maria, Luciana Souza and Nelson Faria.
8) Junio Barreto
Brotfabrik
Samstag/ Saturday, 28.09
20 Uhr / 8 pm
A cult reference in the new Brazilian popular music, Barreto was born in Caruaru
(Northeast of Brazil) and lives in São Paulo. He is a representative of the Manguebeat
movement, a remodeled regional sound, which mixes different genres like samba,
“guitarrada” (an electronic guitar-based rhythm with northern Brazilian and Caribbean
influences), and soul with electronic elements. His music is considered Brazilian folk
with an urban accent. In his compositions, performed in a tenor voice with both delicate
and sophisticated arrangements, he shows the influence of some important authors of
Brazilian literature, such as João Guimarães Rosa and Manoel de Barros. Many of his
songs have been recorded by different Brazilian artists like Gal Costa, Roberta Sá, Lula
Queiroga, Lenine, among others. His latest album is Setembro, launched in 2011 to
critical acclaim.
9) Virginia Rodrigues
Brotfabrik
Sonntag/ Sunday, 29.09
20 Uhr / 8 pm
Her music is influenced by classical music, Samba and Jazz. The Times wrote: "... The
new Diva of Brazilian music, the Bahian singer moved Brazil with her debut album Sol
negro, a rich mixture of African and Portuguese influences and samba”. She was also
praised by the likes of Le Monde and Rolling Stone. In the United States, Europe and
Japan, she is published by the Rykodisc label, owned by Chris Blackwell, who
produced Bob Marley, Peter Tosh and U2.
THEATRE/ PERFORMANCE
MOUSONTURM
www.mousonturm.de
1) 100 places to dance
Do. 3.10. - So. 6.10, Di. 8.10. – Sa.12.10., ab 17.00 Uhr
VIDEOINSTALLATION
* Foyer EG, Eintritt frei
An installation consisting of 100 mini dance videos that provide a diagram of three
Brazilian cities: Santos, Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo. It is a study about improvisation,
a game played with the city, in which the outside of the body – comprised of clothes,
colors, hair – gives form to the dance, which is conceived as it is performed. In these
ephemeral dances the body is absorbed by space and it frees itself, becoming a spectral
body where the past and the future converge. This set of performances reveals the
contradiction between the cultural possibilities and the lack of space for people and art
in Brazilian cities, stifled as they are by capitalist rationale and property speculation.
Project conceived and directed by / The artists
2) JULIA
Christiane Jatahy.
Do. 3.10., Fr. 4.10., 19.00 Uhr
THEATER / PERFORMANCE
Deutsche Erstaufführung
In brasilianischem Portugiesisch mit deutschen Übertiteln/ In Brazilian Portuguese
with German subtitles
* Saal, € 17,- / erm. € 8,-
Julia and Jelson were brought up together in the same house – but in very different
worlds. She is from a white, upper middle-class family in Rio de Janeiro; he is the son
of the black gardener who works at the house. Theater and film director Christiane
Jatahy has adapted the classic by August Strindberg, “Miss Julie”, to the modern-day
Brazil. The presentation, which received critical acclaim and was a part of top European
theater festivals, emphasizes the political essence of the original drama and raises
questions about the latent racism behind financial relationships, while intertwining the
language of film with that of the theater. The constant presence of a cameraman on
stage dissolves the boundaries between documentary and fiction, making the scene into
a continual projection of social inequalities. Directed and adapted by/ Live camera:
3) COLETIVO IRMÃOS GUIMARÃES
cheio/vazio * voll/leer
Do. 3.10. – Sa. 5.10., 22.00 Uhr
Respiração Mais, Respiração Menos * Mehr Atem, Weniger Atem
PERFORMANCE / INSTALLATION
* Foyer OG, Eintritt frei
Cheio/vazio (Full/empty), by Adriano and Fernando Guimarães, presents a snapshot of
works that tackle apparent opposites, such as full/empty, all/nothing, inside/outside,
contain/contained, where the performers’ and the public’s bodies are submitted to
games of regulation and control. The transparent boxes sometimes contain bodies, such
as in Respiração +, where a bell controls the immersion/submersion of performers
inside containers full of water; at other times they are almost empty, as in Luz
Incandescente, where a box containing an ophthalmic solution with instructions for use
is available for the spectator to use it as needed. In the Guimarães Brothers’
performances, plays and installations there is recurrent dialogue with literature, with
reference to works by authors such as Samuel Beckett, Manoel de Barros, Gabriel
García Marquez, among others. They have participated in exhibitions such as: 21st
International Biennial of São Paulo, 1991; The Theatre of Installation, curated by
Nicolas de Oliveira and Nicola Oxley, Museum of Installation, London, United
Kingdom, 2000; 20 Desarranjos – Panorama da Arte Brasileira, curated by Gerardo
Mosquera, Museo de Arte Contemporânea, Vigo, Spain, 2005.
4) Radikales Erfinden / Radical Invention
Do. 3.10., Fr. 4.10., Sa. 5.10., 10.00 – 13.00 Uhr
WORKSHOP FÜR JUNGE DRAMATIK MIT ROBERTO ALVIM/
In englischer Sprache
* Studio 1, € 45,- / erm. € 21,Presented by the Brazilian director and playwright Roberto Alvim, the main goals
of this workshop are to provide new playwrights with an outlook on the most
interesting tendencies in contemporary theater. Through the theoretical mapping
of important works by authors of several nationalities, participants will be able to
create their own voices as playwrights, and will be stimulated to write short texts
that can translate theatrically the questions raised in the workshop.
The workshop is a space dedicated to the analysis of works by great contemporary
playwrights and the creation of original texts by each of the authors. Taking into
consideration the work of specialists such as Peter Szondi, Jean-Pierre Ryangaert
and Hans-Thies Lehmann, there will be a discussion about Crises in Drama and
contemporary playwrights’ attempts to create new poetic devices that can
translate or expand the public’s current imagination in unsuspected directions.
Equipment required: A white board with a marker pen; A projector connected to a
computer. Space: A silent room, with chair for the participants
5) ImPERMANÊNCIAS
Vera Sala
Do. 3.10. – Sa. 5.10., 18.00 Uhr
PERFORMANCE / INSTALLATION
* Studio 2, € 5,- / erm. € 3,In this dance installation, a delicate wire mesh surrounds the body. This tangle of metal
wires becomes an extension of that body and contact between the two occurs through
reciprocal transformations. Who moves what? The award-winning ballerina and
choreographer, professor of Corporal Arts Communication at the Pontifical Catholic
University of São Paulo, is working on what she calls “body-installation”. In her work,
the body is understood from the point of view of its different “corporal states”, and
dance is part of the transformations in these states. The questions and concerns that
motivate her creations are “areas of vagueness” between life and death, strength and
fragility and the dissolution of the body’s limits. These are not themes, but physicalities
that continue to be explored and transformed. This body is in a constant state of
transition, modified by time and continually exposed to what it is and does.
6) CRACKz!
Bruno Beltrão & Grupo de Rua
Fr. 4.10., Sa. 5.10., 20.00 Uhr
TANZ / CHOREOGRAFIE – Dance/ Choreography
* Frankfurt LAB, Schmidtstraße 12, € 17,- / erm. € 8,Brazilian choreographer Bruno Beltrão reinvents the vocabulary of urban life by
blending contemporary dance techniques with gestures, movements and steps from
street-dance, break and hip-hop. This unique combination of minimalist solos with
complex and vigorous interaction on stage between many people, has meant that his
presentations, such as H2 (2005) and H3 (2009) have impacted audiences all over the
world. In 2010 he won the prestigious New York Bessie Award. In Crackz!, his new
show, launched worldwide in May 2013 in Brussels at the Kunstenfestivaldesarts,
Beltrão uses material that is freely available on the Internet: dance and music videos in
various styles and genres. He worked with his group on this material for one year,
reaffirming the creativity that can be found in audio mixing, sampling and in the
reproduction of existing concepts. The resulting choreography is fast-paced, with a
nomadic feeling of constant displacement.
7) PUZZLE (a, b, c)
Felipe Hirsch
PUZZLE (a, b, c)
Puzzle a: Di. 8.10., 20.00 Uhr Voraufführung
Puzzle a: Mi. 9.10., 20.00 Uhr Uraufführung
Puzzle b: Do. 10.10., Fr. 11.10., 20.00 Uhr
Puzzle c: Sa. 12.10., 20.00 Uhr, So. 13.10., 19.00 Uhr
THEATER / PERFORMANCE / VIDEO
Three different theater productions, adapted from dozens of texts created specially for
the Frankfurt Book Fair by young, contemporary Brazilian authors, are presented in the
form of a jigsaw puzzle. There are three independent sections divided into different
parts that sometimes fit together and sometimes do not. The production was conceived
and directed by Felipe Hirsch. Daniela Thomas designed the set and the original
soundtrack is by Arthur de Faria. The cast includes: Isabel Teixeira, Georgette Fadel,
Leonardo Medeiros, Luna Martinelli, Marat Descartes, Rodrigo Bolzan and supporting
cast.
8) DJ DOLORES
Party
Mi. 9.10., Fr. 11.10., So. 13.10., ab 22.00 Uhr
PARTY / MUSIC
* Foyer, Eintritt frei
Helder Aragão, better known as DJ Dolores, is internationally famous and has
performed in various countries and festivals around the world. He is also known for
composing soundtracks for films, dance shows and plays. He has won several prizes,
such as the BBC World Music Award in the "Global Club" category, in 2004. Since
1989 the DJ has been a fixture in the bubbling cultural scene in Recife, capital of the
state of Pernambuco in the northeast of Brazil, where he lives. His work manages to mix
street sounds with more obscure samples: electronic beats with traditional Brazilian
rhythms that come together in his unmistakable blend of rave, funk, samba, reggae and
maracatu.
9) LÚMEN
João Penoni
Mi. 9.10., Fr. 11.10., So. 13.10., ab 22.00 Uhr
PERFORMANCE / LICHTKUNST – PERFORMANCE/ LIGHT ART
Deutsche Erstaufführung
* Foyer, Eintritt frei
The artist João Penoni, who lives in Rio de Janeiro, recreates his body in a performance
that takes place in a totally dark room. Suspended from an invisible bar and with
flashing lights attached to his body that look as though they are devouring him, the
young artist performs acrobatic movements in total defiance of the apparent void. His
movements create a trail of light on the set, creating a luminous flow that confers his
silhouette with a blurred and elusive quality. Light is the main element of this work,
which explores the body’s connection with space, weightlessness and luminosity.
10) UTOPIA.DOC
Christiane Jatahy
Mi. 9.10..- So. 13.10., ab 17.00 Uhr
VIDEOINSTALLATION
In brasilianischem Portugiesisch mit deutschen Untertiteln/ In Brazilian
Portuguese with German subtitles
* Studio 2, Eintritt frei
What is your utopia? This question was the starting point for this project, created by
Christiane Jatahy. Frankfurt residents, both immigrants and Germans, were asked to
write a little about their own story, describe their homes and share some of their dreams
– either the waking or the sleeping kind. The answering letters were given to nine
Brazilian authors. They each wrote a text in response to the letter about utopia, and
together with a film crew they each visited one of the homes along with the actresses
participating in the project. The resulting video can be seen as an installation at the
Mousonturm’s Studio 2. UTOPIA.DOC is a work about the desire for change, about
boundaries (geographical and personal). It is a political document about the present,
about being foreign or about wanting to leave, to break with the past either in real life or
in the make-believe.
11) JOSÉ FERNANDO AZEVEDO & TEATRO DE NARRADORES
Cidade Fim, Cidade Coro, Cidade Reverso * Endstadt, Chorstadt, Umkehrstadt
Fr. 11.10., Sa. 12.10., 19.00 Uhr * So. 13.10., 18.00 Uhr
THEATER / PERFORMANCE
Erstaufführung im deutschsprachigen Raum
In
brasilianischem
Portugiesisch
mit
deutschen
Übertiteln
bzw.
Simultanübersetzung
Deutsche Erstaufführung/ In Brazilian Portuguese with German subtitles and/or
simultaneous translation
* Studio 1 und Oststadtraum € 12, - / erm. € 6,The play explores different types of sociability and community in the setting of the
group’s headquarters in Bixiga/Bela Vista, a working-class district in the city of São
Paulo. The district was formed from a community of Italian, African and Northeastern
immigrants who settled there. The first part (Cidade Fim) is a film, with live
soundtrack and narration by the actors and a musician. The group follows the journey
of three workers who are friends, in 1980, when the unions’ movement was starting to
gain strength in São Paulo. They discuss the relationships between “political
commitment”, “relationships with the past” and “political memory”. On one side, the
action is shown on screen; on the other, the actors overlay the text on the images, with a
note of lyricism. In the second part (Cidade Coro), using statements collected mainly
from Bixiga residents during a survey, the actors carry out a sort of “pretend game”, in
which they move back and forth between these and their own statements, building new
set of stories and fictional outlines. In the third one (Cidade Reverso), the group takes
the audience onto the streets, in a mood of intercession and celebration, a fragmented
fable about the “crazy life” we live today.
READINGS
1) Newton Moreno, Leonarda Moreira, Grace Passô (Do. 3.19.) * Jô Bilac,
Roberto Alvim, Pedro Brício (Fr. 4.10.) * Emanuel Aragão, Sílvia Gomes (Sa.
5.10.)
Do. 3.10. – Fr. 4.10., 15.00 – 18.00 Uhr * Sa. 5.10., 16.00 – 18.00 Uhr
LESUNGEN/ READINGS
In brasilianischem Portugiesisch und deutschStudio 1, € 5,
3) Zeitgenössische brasilianische Dramatik – Tradition, Brüche und
Entwicklung/ Contemporary Brazilian Plays – Traditions, Disruptions and
Developments
Do. 3.10., Fr. 4.10., 20.00 – 22.00 Uhr
TALKS mit Roberto Alvim, Pedro Brício, Newton Moreno, Leonardo Moreira (Do.
3.10.) * Emanuel Aragao, Jô Bilac, Sílvia Gomez, Grace Passô (Fr. 4.10.)
In englischer Sprache/ In English
* Studio 1, Eintritt frei
3) Zeitgenössische brasilianische Dramatik – Tradition, Brüche und
Entwicklung/ Contemporary Brazilian Plays – Traditions, Disruptions and
Developments
Do. 3.10., Fr. 4.10., 20.00 – 22.00 Uhr
TALKS mit Roberto Alvim, Pedro Brício, Newton Moreno, Leonardo Moreira (Do.
3.10.) * Emanuel Aragao, Jô Bilac, Sílvia Gomez, Grace Passô (Fr. 4.10.)
In englischer Sprache/ In English
* Studio 1, Eintritt frei