OPEN ACT - SELECTED PROJECTS
SUNDAY, MARCH 22, 2020, FROM 12H00 l MAIN EVENT - FESTSAAL KREUZBERG
As part of the Open Call initiative we’ve received an amazing number of initiatives.
Below we present the selected projects. Enjoy!
DEVÓRATE by MARI PAULA
This performance was created to deteriorate itself in 450 years on the large share of Pacific garbage, where the future was swallowed by the plastic. As humans’ wastage, a woman was transformed into a digital worker after the crisis of representation. She eats herself in search of the pleasure of a collective body, something that was lost long time ago.
Impressive work of Mari Paula with her own body as a canvas of experimentation, [...] to suffer herself the digestion of the plastic monster and to be expelled from paradise due to the deceitful technological development.
Pilar Jódar Peinado
(Member and Research Award of the Spanish Academy of Performing Arts)
JUSTICE S.F. by DAIANE RAFAELA
This work of transmedia combines video, performance and text to expose the ruin of institutions in Brazil after the coup. We see Justice dilapidated, collapsing under the assault of the powers that be. Alive, it resists and rises in clamour.
Based on the manifesto "I Want a President", by Zoe Leonard, this work exposes the vile process of the destruction of Democracy in Brazil, in a sprawling painting of the current scenario, under which the performer, as Justice, transcends the attacks and cries: "I WANT A DYKE FOR PRESIDENT!"
BAIANÁ by ADRIÁTICA
Baiana is a Dance Solo crafted around the spiritual and archetypical forces of Brazilian culture. This piece focuses on our strength of ancestral memory, rather than our weakness as democracy. Inspired by the Orixás as archetype, Capoeira as defense and soft Bellydance moves, the artist creates a ritualistic homage to her roots and culture.
Adriatica is an artist of metamorphosis.
As a multifaceted woman she works as Dancer, Bodypainter and Make-Up-Artist in Berlin. Spin the wheel!
Follow: www.instagram.com/adriaticabodyart
Picture: Pedro Jafuno
BICICLETA BY CACAU MACIEL
The role of the bicycle in the female emancipation process
When I first became interested in the role of the bicycle as a tool for female emancipation, I did a research on the topic and soon realised the precariousness of content aimed at the target audience. I thought then, of facilitating the accessibility to content that relates the woman figure to the bicycle, understanding the role of communication in the democratisation of knowledge process as fundamental for the promotion of equality.
The woman was and still is a figure mainly associated with the domestic space while the man is since birth encouraged to develop activities outside the house, in public spaces. Considering the bicycle an important tool to promote our autonomy and independence at low cost, we need to encourage it, as it contributes to the reduction of social and gender inequalities, enabling access to the opportunities that the ease of commuting offers us.
The bicycle changed our clothes, got rid of our corsets and skirts; played a part in our socialiSation process and from there, the possibility of questioning our social role. The bicycle has raised our self-esteem, taken us to academic centres, the job market and will take us wherever we want to go. We can do it!
MASHUP (CHAOS A.D) by LUIZ LIMA
My desire of a harmonic (and disharmonious) junction between two images that may be similar in their sense, plasticity and interest comes from what is done in music mashups. The aim is to create curiosity in the minds of those who see them. It turns out not to be an easy thing to do. We see numerous situations in cities, countries and in different locations. Eventually we record these experiences. In my case as a photographer the chance to register is even greater because I reach out to these experiences, and years later when watching the photos, I see a certain contradictory communication between the images. What made me intuit were the possibilities in the dialogues between the images! It’s an idea of a narrative in the exchange and contrast between two or more (photographic) records, ranging from discomfort to subtlety.
Can your brain help you?
This work ascends creating subliminal messages about music.
Think about politics, economics, sociology and religion. Your way! But think!
LAPOSIVY by LANNI_LUNNA, REBE DOM AND MŸSLI
LAPOSIVY (ex. Transmuting Kicks)
Ianni_lunna (brazilian) +Rebe_Dom (brazilian) +Mÿsli (german) is Laboratory for Poetry, Synthesizers and Violin.
Riot Grrrl is school of life, (Ianni ex-Soror; Rebe ex_Anti-Corpos) and so Rebe_Dom bring futuristic self-love and fluidity on their poetry adding to Ianni_Lunna`s intense,moist textures and beats plus Mÿ experimental noises and sounds that a violin can create, composing this free atmosphere for improvisation and creation. Life is a huge performance.
“HOW TO SELL YOUR ART” by STEPHAN VAN KUYK
There is this romantic idea burnt into our brain, this image of the broke artists cooked up in his studio, creating groundbreaking work that will go completely unnoticed until his death, when he will be discovered and hailed as art genius and his paintings will reach multi million price tags in international fairs and auctions.
Sounds nice, doesn’t work.
This idea of an artist is outdated, unrealistic and unsuccessful. The whole idea most have of an artist is completely away from reality.
With today’s technologies artists can empower themselves and manage a fulfilling career with open tools that don’t require much technical knowledge.
This talk by Stephan van Kuyk - Art Consultant & Dealer will cover issues such as selling art online, creating an audience, social media for artist and exploring new strategies for growing your career.
You will learn:
How to Get PR.
How to sell online.
How to build a story behind your art.
How to start your audience.
How to monetize your career.
About Stephan van Kuyk.
Artists, curator, art consultant and director of Azucar - Magazine & Art Gallery. He works with art and artists on a daily basis, he has consulted several artists about how to expand their art career, has helped brands include art into their daily activities and assisted collectors in growing their collections.
MUSIC PORTRAITS by ÚTERO
“Útero” is an audiovisual and music collective from Rio de Janeiro that focus on music and how it relates to the visual arts.
The group started working together in 2013, and since then we made music videos, live sessions, music production and graphic project for artists and lots of other things in that spectrum.
The project aims to talk more about music in documentary formats and to be able to raise questions that are relevant to the present moment that we are all living.
In 2020, Útero started a new project, “Music Portraits”, with the idea of meeting the artist in its ambient and capture a portrait that synthesises her current artistic moment, with the following motto: “How does the ambient influences the artistic creation and vice-versa?”
