Os Quintais de Porto Alegre
Site-specific performance. 2018.
Director, performer and producer.
This project received the prize Funarte de Artes de Rua (Brazilian government's prize for urban arts). The performance intended to show ways to occupy, view, inhabit and live together in the public yards of the city of Porto Alegre, Brazil.
Through activities that could and that already took place in these yards, we invite spectators to discover and rediscover these spaces, to stay there and come back after the performance. For us, the project was a way of stimulating citizens to get closer to these spaces, to see them as spaces of belonging and, perhaps, to review their relationship of distance with the buildings and also with the public activities of power that take place in these spaces.
Through activities that could and that already took place in these yards, we invite spectators to discover and rediscover these spaces, to stay there and come back after the performance. For us, the project was a way of stimulating citizens to get closer to these spaces, to see them as spaces of belonging and, perhaps, to review their relationship of distance with the buildings and also with the public activities of power that take place in these spaces.
Photos by: Márcia Berselli and André Olmos.
Video by : Pedro Mendes.
Conception, production and perfomance : Marcia Berselli, Silvana Rodrigues, Matheus Melchionna, Luis Manoel, Carina Cora, Amanda Gatti, André Olmos and Natalia Soldera.
Funded by Prêmio Funarte de Artes de Rua.
