ECOPERFORMATIVE PRESENCE

Plastic Art Performance Collective invites you this month to a series of eco-performative events, together with the ECO MOVEMENTS dance project team.

The week of October 19-24 will be dedicated to conferences and workshops through which the Bucharest public will have the unique opportunity to come into direct contact and work alongside one of the founders of the international ecoperformance artistic movement.

Choreographer, director, dancer, actress and performer, with a career spanning 30 years, the renowned international artist Maura Baiocchi arrives in Bucharest for the first time, at the invitation of the first group that promotes and develops the ecoperformance methodology in the artistic environment of the country. Director and founder of the Taanteatro Company from Brazil and creator of the working formula of the “choreographic theater of tensions”, director-founder of the International Ecoperformance Film Festival, author of over 80 choreographies, plays, performances and co-author of numerous titles, including the first book about butoh dance in Portuguese, Maura Baiocchi will bring her work experience to the Romanian scene:

On October 21, at 5 p.m., at Modul Cărturești (Str. Academiei 18-20) – it will host the “Performative (eco)Presence” conference. The event will be accompanied by the premiere of the video performance “Eco Movements” (Gabriel Durlan, Alina Tofan), a dance project that explores inter-species links through movement as a model of climate resilience. The free event is open to the general public.

During the residency in Bucharest, another series of actions is dedicated to professionals in the field: movement workshops in various spaces in the city for performers, choreographers, dancers, visual artists; as well as a conference dedicated to UNArte students – through this, Eco Movements supports the development of new skills and practices for young people at the beginning of the road in the field of performing arts, who will come into direct contact with the method and vision of ecoperformance.

Main partners and hosts: Cărtureşti Libraries, Bucharest University of Arts.

Plastic Art Performance Collective is an artistic group formed under the Macaia Cultural Association, which draws attention to collective waste and themes such as: the environmental crisis, plastic pollution, industrial pollution, climate change, illegal deforestation – themes addressed through the arts.

The project is co-financed by the AFCN National Cultural Fund Administration.

The project does not necessarily represent the position of the National Cultural Fund Administration. AFCN is not responsible for the content of the project or how the results of the project may be used. These are entirely the responsibility of the beneficiary of the funding.

Film on YouTube

In December 2022, Taanteatro Companhia undertook the first Ecoperformance Expedition in two Ribeira Valley State Parks of São Paulo, Brazil.
The first phase of the journey led to an immersion in the chthonic universe of the PETAR caves; the second phase explored the coastal landscapes of Ilha do Cardoso.
Taanteatro’s Ecoperformance Expedition resulted in six short films featuring Mônica Cristina Bernardes and Jorge Ndlozy as welll as an interview with Maura Baiocchi, the creator of the ecoperformance concept and founding director Taanteatro Companhia and the International Ecoperformance Filmfestival.

The first part of the expedition’s program consists of the films ITAOCA, TIKO TIKU, TAPERA, and ECOPERFORMANCE: Interview with Maura Baiocchi.

The films are also part of the Environmental Dance project by Company Christoph Winkler (Berlin).
PROGRAM:

1.

TIKO TIKU (11:31 min)
6:00 pm (GMT – 3)

TIKO TIKU is a contemporary [re&de]construction of traditional mozambican dance from a African Diaspora perspective. The performance was recorded at Mirante Pôr do Sol (Juquiá) and Mirante do Governador at Caverna do Diabo State Park (Iporanga, SP, Brazil).

Director: Wolfgang Pannek
Dance: Jorge Ndlozy
Camera, sound edition: Wolfgang Pannek
Sound mixing: Anderson Kaltner
Production: Wolfgang Pannek, Mônica Christina Bernardes

2.

ITAOCA (9:08 min)
16:15 pm (GMT – 3)

ITAOCA presents a genesis process of the body and its states of matter in symbiosis with a tropical womb-cave. The performance was recorded at Black Hill Cave (Iporanga, SP, Brazil).

Director: Wolfgang Pannek & Maura Baiocchi
Dancer: Mônica Christina Bernardes
Choreographic director: Maura Baiocchi
Camera, edition: Wolfgang Pannek
Music: Claudio Vinícius Fróes Fialho
Production: Wolfgang Pannek, Mônica Christina Bernardes
3.

TAPERA (9:41 min)
16:30 PM (GMT – 3)

TAPERA is a meditation on the memory of ancestral lifeworlds, abandonment and suspensions of time. The performance was recorded in a mud house, typical for traditional South American and African construction methods.

Director: Wolfgang Pannek
Performers: Mônica Cristina Bernardes, Jorge Ndlozy
Camera & sound edition: Wolfgang Pannek
Sound mixing: Anderson Kaltner
Edition: Wolfgang Pannek, Maura Baiocchi
Production: Wolfgang Pannek, Mônica Christina Bernardes
4.

ECOPERFORMANCE: Interview with Maura Baiocchi (23:12 min)
6:45 pm (GMT – 3)
Portuguese with English subtitles.

Interview by Wolfgang Pannek with Maura Baiocchi, founding-director of Taanteatro Companhia and the International Ecoperformance Filmfestival.

The interview presents the purpose and the characteristics of the festival and discusses performing arts concepts created by Baiocchi, such as Ecoperformance, Ecorporeality, Anthropo-Scene, and Symbio-Scene. Recorded at Taanteatro’s headquarters in São Lourenço da Serra, SP, Brazil.

Check out the INTERNATIONAL ECOPERFORMANCE FILMFESTIVAL website:

https://www.ecoperformance.art.br/

ANTI-OEDIPUS 50 YEARS

Commemorative project on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the publication of the book Anti-Oedipus by the philosopher GILLES DELEUZE and the psychoanalyst FELIX GUATTARI. Language: German & Portuguese (consecutive translation)

MARCH 14 and 15, 2022 – from 11 am to 1 pm (Brasília Time)
- face-to-face & online -
Registration until MARCH 10, 2022.

SESC RESEARCH AND TRAINING CENTER
Location: Rua Dr. Plínio Barreto, 285 – 4th floor – Bela Vista – São Paulo.

PROGRAM
MARCH/14/2022
THE CONTINUOUS PASSAGE OF KRONOS DOES NOT PREVENT PRODUCTIVE RECURRENCES OF AION
Opening speech: Luiz B. L. Orlandi

CAPITALISM & SCHIZOPHRENIA. Observations on Anti-Oedipus.
Lecture by Prof. Dr. Marc Rölli (HGB Leipzig, Germany)

Inscriptions: face-to-face & on-line

Would it be possible to find in the “schizo” a minority becoming that resonates in contemporary queer-feminist and decolonizing controversies? It may be that there is an Anti-Oedipal actuality at this point, which results from Guattari and Deleuze’s critique of capitalism and their descriptions of machines. In this lecture, first some of the conceptual prerequisites of the desiring machine essential for the understanding of their subjectivation processes will be explained. Their materialistic aspect is the focus. Second, relationships that link the history of madness or psychiatry to that of capitalism are investigated. Finally, an attempt is made to capture something of the descriptive arts of schizophrenic subjectivation that cannot simply be located in the critical identity zones of currently established inequalities of class and gender relations, as well as in transmitted colonial structures.

MARCH 15, 2022 
SEPARATISM AS A METHOD
Lecture by Ilse Lafer (curator of the gallery at HGB Leipzig) and Marc Rölli

Inscriptions: face-to-face & on-line

The political strategies of the present are permeated by identity conflicts. In the dispute for more right-wing or left-wing populisms, in the defense of a minority position, in the rejection of dominant discourses, colonial or patriarchal structures – identities are always claimed or rejected.
In this situation, it will be helpful to critically examine separatist strategies to understand their meaning, scope, and limits. The differential feminist approach of Italian art critic Carla Lonzi offers a suitable starting point for this, insofar as artistic and political perspectives relate in an exemplary way. These considerations are deepened in the context of contemporary art and especially in the recent work of Legacy Russell, Catherine Malabou and Donna Haraway. The lecture ends with some reflections on “classless” people and the “inhuman gender”, two concepts in Guattari and Deleuze’s Anti-Oedipus.

Organization: AV: UNESP & Taanteatro Companhia
Coordination: Wladimir Mattos, Rodrigo Reis
Idea and curation: Wolfgang Pannek
Cultural Support: Goethe Institute São Paulo

Festival date: April 19 – 21, 2022

Submissions: until February 15, 2022

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Faced with the ecopolitical challenges of the 21st century, the 2nd INTERNATIONAL ECOPERFORMANCE FESTIVAL continues the transcultural mission of bringing together artists who work in natural, urban and virtual landscapes to investigate, question or poetically reaffirm the composition and conflict between the body and the environment.

The second edition of the festival will receive proposals for the categories “eco[po]ethics” and “unpublished eco[po]ethics” and will feature awards in the following categories:

Best Ecoperformance – Best Director – Best Ecoperformer – Best Photography in Ecoperformance.

On the occasion of the second edition, the book ECOPERFORMANCE, with texts by/the participants of the inaugural version of the festival, will be launched.

What is Ecoperformance?

Date of making the videos: 2020 to 2022
Duration: from 3 to 25 minutes
Formats: mp4
Publication of selection results: March 15, 2022

Online application: here

or use the following documents and send them to: contato@taanteatro.com

Submission Formulary – 2nd International Ecoperformance Festival

Term of responsibility – International Ecoperformance Festival

The International Ecoperformance Festival is a project conceived by Brazilian choreographer Maura Baiocchi and organized by Taanteatro Companhia (São Paulo/Brazil).

The 1st International Ecoperformance Festival, held from March 16 to 19, 2021, received proposals from five continents and selected 34 videos, conceptualized as “eco[po]ethics” or “eco[po]ethics in process”, by performing and visual artists from Germany, Argentina, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Colombia, France, Greece, Hungary, India, Morocco, Mozambique, Netherlands, Japan, Poland, Romania, Russia, Singapore, Switzerland, Turkey, UK, USA, and Venezuela.

Festival YouTube Channel

INTERNATIONAL ECOPERFORMANCE FESTIVAL
A Taanteatro Project

Creator and director: Maura Baiocchi
Producers: Wolfgang Pannek, Mônica Cristina Bernardes.
Jury: Paloma Rocha, Marcelo Kamaiurá, Or Kittikong, Wojciech Olchowski.

Contact: contato@taanteatro.com

APOKÁLYPSIS brings the triangular encounter-confrontation between the apocalyptic thinking of the Jewish-Christian tradition, the Shakespearean characters Hamlet and Ophelia and a contemporary global scenario of socio-political and ecological catastrophic threats. Faced with these out-of-axis realities, each ground articulates, through the body, the existential tension “between being and non-being” and presents poetic ‘revelations’ (apocalypses) experienced on the threshold between denial and affirmation of life. As a whole, the APOKÁLYPSIS project emphasizes through a plurimedial approach – dance, theater, literature, painting, video – the creative and ethical function of the arts in the face of a historical situation that calls into question the very conditions of life on Earth.

APOKÁLYPSIS is composed of three theater-choreographic solos:

Ophelia [Te]Chthonics, (30 min), starring Brazilian actress and dancer Mônica Cristina Bernardes, stages a dive into the industrial exploration of the depths of the Earth, a planet reduced to a fossil resource by a capitalist ideology of techno-scientific progress.

Hamlet in Necropolis (40 min), with the Mozambican dancer Jorge Ndlozy, is a rite of redeeming the death of victims of the Covid-19 pandemic, and a poetic protest against a disastrous government health policy.

Ophelia in Ansenuza (35 min), with Argentine painter-performer Candelaria Silvestro, evokes the uniqueness, beauty and delicacy of a South American ecosystem in danger of destruction: the Mar Chiquita lagoon (Mar de Ansenuza) and, with it, the its most emblematic inhabitant, the flamingo.

The theater-choreographic performances, directed by Maura Baiocchi and with texts by the German author and director Wolfgang Pannek, move at the interface between the body, audiovisual arts, poetry and philosophy.

APOKÁLYPSIS is Taanteatro Companhia’s cultural counterpart to the Proac Expresso Lei Aldir Blanc – for History in Dance Award (2020).