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OUT THERE 2017 curatorial program
OUT THERE, 2017, Porto
- co-curator for the program involving international and local artists, with local participants, composed by residencies, presentations, lectures and labs
- Guest artists : Veit Stratmann, Winnie SuperHova & Samuel Draper, Hamish Fulton, Claudia Hill, Rui Catalão, Pedro Tudela, Ricardo Jacinto, Nicholas Bussmann, Maile Costa Colbert & Rui Colbert Costa, and Alejandra Salinas & Aeron Bergman. Co-curated with Jorge Gonçalves \ MEZZANINE & Pedro Rocha
Porto, October to November 2017
A residency program and interpelations of artists in public spaces, in non conventional places or disconsidered regarding as places for creation and artistic processes. Those places can be linked to specific communities or broader scoops, from spaces of permancy or transit or ones that are considered more close to so called “non-places”. The program looks for to highlight work that occupies the fringes of the expectable or of what reaches enclosed subjects. In this sense, the invitation is directed to artists that create ouvre at / for public spaces that are normally seen as distant of performative exposure, coming out of mediation with conventional formats to explore possibilities of interaction less common and relations more direct to the audience. OUT THERE is designed in order to be allow the permeation of audience participation and local community. It is desired the contact with profissionals guests continuously and in a constructive way, bringing the artist to spaces of sharing within their creation processes, discussion and work. With this intention, it will be a prosperous place of crossing public and private on the artistic making, still frequently seen as something necessarily linked to decommissioning or retreat in a isolated place far from the foreigner eye. This interdisciplinary program ran from 30th October to 18th November, in several Porto spaces. Beyond the presentation of each work developed in a quotidian context so it can be thought, it is organized an open showing to the community where audience will be invited to meet the guests artists. This moment corresponds to an official share of the “end” of the work within a format to be announced taking in account of each artist specificity in relation with the context and it’s tipology.
Porto, October to November 2017
A residency program and interpelations of artists in public spaces, in non conventional places or disconsidered regarding as places for creation and artistic processes. Those places can be linked to specific communities or broader scoops, from spaces of permancy or transit or ones that are considered more close to so called “non-places”. The program looks for to highlight work that occupies the fringes of the expectable or of what reaches enclosed subjects. In this sense, the invitation is directed to artists that create ouvre at / for public spaces that are normally seen as distant of performative exposure, coming out of mediation with conventional formats to explore possibilities of interaction less common and relations more direct to the audience. OUT THERE is designed in order to be allow the permeation of audience participation and local community. It is desired the contact with profissionals guests continuously and in a constructive way, bringing the artist to spaces of sharing within their creation processes, discussion and work. With this intention, it will be a prosperous place of crossing public and private on the artistic making, still frequently seen as something necessarily linked to decommissioning or retreat in a isolated place far from the foreigner eye. This interdisciplinary program ran from 30th October to 18th November, in several Porto spaces. Beyond the presentation of each work developed in a quotidian context so it can be thought, it is organized an open showing to the community where audience will be invited to meet the guests artists. This moment corresponds to an official share of the “end” of the work within a format to be announced taking in account of each artist specificity in relation with the context and it’s tipology.
OUT THERE 2017 curatorial program
SYPA artistic practice symposium I & II 2017 curatorial program
SYPA I & II, 2017, Porto
- co-curator of Artistc Practice Symposium I and II, a program of labs, presentations and lectures with international and national guests, and local participants
- Guest artists SYPA I: Alice Chauchat, Anna Gaïotti, Anne Juren, Antonija Livingstone, Dinis Machado, Isabel Lewis, Jack Hauser, Jennifer Lacey, Litó Walkey, Marcos Simões, Marcus Bergner, Nadia Lauro, Hamish MacPherson, Philipp Gehmacher, Sabina Holzer, Sara Manente, Valentina Desideri, Vladimir Miller and von Calhau; Guest artists SYPA II : Adriano Wilfert Jensen, Andros Zins-Browne, Ana Vujanović, Björn Säfsten, Chrysa Parkinson, Daniel Kok, Hana Erdman, Inês Moreira, Juan Dominguez, Katerina Andreou, Ligia Lewis, Lilia Mestre, Saša Asentić, Maria Jerez, Marta Ziólek, Mårten Spångberg, Simon Asencio and Vânia Rovisco. Co-curated with Jorge Gonçalves \ MEZZANINE
Ateneu Comercial do Porto & Mira Artes Performativas, Porto, 2017
Approaching the arts ecosystem through artistic practice sessions, artists talks and performances, the Artistic Practice Symposium considers the performing arts production modes and its regime of visibility within the present socio-political context where we live in. Nowadays, there’s an urgency on engaging modes that insists stronger on inclusion immanency and in the power of imagination, in order to establish diffractive tendencies that are willing to reinvent typologies and topologies within the communities. Currently, artistic practises have been having a fundamental role in the way how artists transmit their know-how and working methodologies. Artistic research dwells more and more in experimental and relational processes within logics wherein the ideas and its material expressions, distributes movements and matters that inquiry performativities and speculate perceptions and transductions that exist beyond the human range. The multiplicity of practice-based research and collaborative dispositives that will be shared by the invited artists during the Symposium, reveals a discursive space of artistic reflection that is of crucial value for the Porto performing arts scene. The Artistic Practice Symposium, is a program to all interested audience, visual and performing artists, art researchers, cultural agents and curious people who work within and beyond the arts.
Ateneu Comercial do Porto & Mira Artes Performativas, Porto, 2017
Approaching the arts ecosystem through artistic practice sessions, artists talks and performances, the Artistic Practice Symposium considers the performing arts production modes and its regime of visibility within the present socio-political context where we live in. Nowadays, there’s an urgency on engaging modes that insists stronger on inclusion immanency and in the power of imagination, in order to establish diffractive tendencies that are willing to reinvent typologies and topologies within the communities. Currently, artistic practises have been having a fundamental role in the way how artists transmit their know-how and working methodologies. Artistic research dwells more and more in experimental and relational processes within logics wherein the ideas and its material expressions, distributes movements and matters that inquiry performativities and speculate perceptions and transductions that exist beyond the human range. The multiplicity of practice-based research and collaborative dispositives that will be shared by the invited artists during the Symposium, reveals a discursive space of artistic reflection that is of crucial value for the Porto performing arts scene. The Artistic Practice Symposium, is a program to all interested audience, visual and performing artists, art researchers, cultural agents and curious people who work within and beyond the arts.
Oráculo de Adivinhação para Gil 2023
Oráculo de Adivinhação para Gil 2023
Rolling Stones aka O que dizes dito dir-se-á 2022
Salto ao Arco 2023
#RebelRebel 2022
Performance-instalation with live sound produced by Otsoa
KISMIF Conference’22 Rebels with a Cause, Casa da Música, July’22
RebelRebel is an one time performance installation for KISMIF'22, created and performed by Ana Rocha. For this unique occasion, she invited the one of a kind OTSOA DJ. For this purpose she will invoke political heritage from past and future to the present moment through a shared practice moving encounter. How nature as a dyi hyper intelligent environment pairs up with community activities of interdependency can sustain it’s voice and meet institutional awareness, is one question invited to the ritual gathering.
KISMIF Conference’22 Rebels with a Cause, Casa da Música, July’22
RebelRebel is an one time performance installation for KISMIF'22, created and performed by Ana Rocha. For this unique occasion, she invited the one of a kind OTSOA DJ. For this purpose she will invoke political heritage from past and future to the present moment through a shared practice moving encounter. How nature as a dyi hyper intelligent environment pairs up with community activities of interdependency can sustain it’s voice and meet institutional awareness, is one question invited to the ritual gathering.
Eu & Água 2023
Eu & Água
Performance installation at local shopping center with live sound produced by Otsoa. Developed in three acts, Eu & Água, Madrugada do meu corpo and Espaços de Co Labor Acção
Colaboration with Otsoa (performer, sound & production)
With the support of Gui Flux (video & tech knowledge)
Special thanks to artists and curators Celeste Cerqueira & Silvestre Pestana
Thanks to Ócio
At Centro Comercial de Cedofeita, Lote 67, Porto, May and June’23
1º act Eu & Água
Inspired by Maria Bethânia's continued listening to the song "Eu & Água," Ana Rocha once again invokes, in an unconventional space and context—a store space, a showcase space, a reliquary space—her relationship with water as a propelling, destructive, and transformative element. Water that moves and composes human beings, that moves them, that ebbs and flows, and stirs them from memory, immersing them in a birth of creation toward extinction. A water that is drunk, that is extinguished, that decomposes. Water, a reservoir of that which radiates toxicity and exchange, water, a wave that swallows, petrifies, solidifies, evaporates, and challenges the idea of structure and stability. Eu & Água is an exercise in ingestion, washing, and creation.
2º Act Madrugada do meu corpo
The spaces between the organs that remain to continue creating within the edges of a monotonous universe. The polis mass that chews up artistic laboratory manifestations and transforms them into capital images. What remains in the invisible sphere of bodies to continue testing and fermenting possibilities beyond formatting and product. Water runs and crosses these masses, and finds other dawns.
3º Act Espaços de Co Labor Acção
Spaces that remain for other living perspectives, for accounting and blanking any product pretension, and only for breathing and ventilation.
Performance installation at local shopping center with live sound produced by Otsoa. Developed in three acts, Eu & Água, Madrugada do meu corpo and Espaços de Co Labor Acção
Colaboration with Otsoa (performer, sound & production)
With the support of Gui Flux (video & tech knowledge)
Special thanks to artists and curators Celeste Cerqueira & Silvestre Pestana
Thanks to Ócio
At Centro Comercial de Cedofeita, Lote 67, Porto, May and June’23
1º act Eu & Água
Inspired by Maria Bethânia's continued listening to the song "Eu & Água," Ana Rocha once again invokes, in an unconventional space and context—a store space, a showcase space, a reliquary space—her relationship with water as a propelling, destructive, and transformative element. Water that moves and composes human beings, that moves them, that ebbs and flows, and stirs them from memory, immersing them in a birth of creation toward extinction. A water that is drunk, that is extinguished, that decomposes. Water, a reservoir of that which radiates toxicity and exchange, water, a wave that swallows, petrifies, solidifies, evaporates, and challenges the idea of structure and stability. Eu & Água is an exercise in ingestion, washing, and creation.
2º Act Madrugada do meu corpo
The spaces between the organs that remain to continue creating within the edges of a monotonous universe. The polis mass that chews up artistic laboratory manifestations and transforms them into capital images. What remains in the invisible sphere of bodies to continue testing and fermenting possibilities beyond formatting and product. Water runs and crosses these masses, and finds other dawns.
3º Act Espaços de Co Labor Acção
Spaces that remain for other living perspectives, for accounting and blanking any product pretension, and only for breathing and ventilation.
Life as it is Lived 2021 \ 2022
Life as it is Lived 2021 \ 2022
Via Aberta A Summer’s Night Dream 2019 curatorial program
Pass by (the time of day) 2011 curatorial program
Toda a Gente Vai 2024
Site-specific duet with Gio Lourenço
Circular Festival \ Vila do Conde, September 2024
Residency at Trust Collective \ Barril de Alva, July’24
Residency at Pólo das Gaivotas and Companhia Olga Roriz (Lisbon), March & May’24
“How much it takes to move away from oneself to experience another experience of being – and of being together”, writes Brazilian journalist, researcher and writer Eliane Brum in “Banzeiro Òkòtó – a trip to the Amazon center of the world” (2021). This is a reflection that derives from the dialectics of the Same and the Other, of disidentification and disidentity, and on the Common, starting from the philosopher Peter Pál Pelbart. What do these quotes have to do with Toda a Gente Vai?
In this site-specific performance, Ana & Gio invite us to dive into the (un)certainties of human (in)humanity. What is common to every individual is “everyone is going to die.” But, “everyone will be born”?, and who are these people that a whole individual represents, what conditionings and codes are attributed to them? From the voice, the text, the gesture and the body that is still a mystery, Ana & Gio start from a puzzle of conversations in search of one another and their maturation in the future.
Toda a Gente Vai, is a new creation by choreographers and multidisciplinary artists, Ana Rocha & Gio Lourenço, in response to an invitation from Festival Circular’24.
Circular Festival \ Vila do Conde, September 2024
Residency at Trust Collective \ Barril de Alva, July’24
Residency at Pólo das Gaivotas and Companhia Olga Roriz (Lisbon), March & May’24
“How much it takes to move away from oneself to experience another experience of being – and of being together”, writes Brazilian journalist, researcher and writer Eliane Brum in “Banzeiro Òkòtó – a trip to the Amazon center of the world” (2021). This is a reflection that derives from the dialectics of the Same and the Other, of disidentification and disidentity, and on the Common, starting from the philosopher Peter Pál Pelbart. What do these quotes have to do with Toda a Gente Vai?
In this site-specific performance, Ana & Gio invite us to dive into the (un)certainties of human (in)humanity. What is common to every individual is “everyone is going to die.” But, “everyone will be born”?, and who are these people that a whole individual represents, what conditionings and codes are attributed to them? From the voice, the text, the gesture and the body that is still a mystery, Ana & Gio start from a puzzle of conversations in search of one another and their maturation in the future.
Toda a Gente Vai, is a new creation by choreographers and multidisciplinary artists, Ana Rocha & Gio Lourenço, in response to an invitation from Festival Circular’24.
Eu & Água 2023
Eu & Água 2023
Fraud by Nature 2012
Tanztage
Sophiensaele, Berlin, 2012
Of nature in front of us. In the beginning was a tree which later grew with a blessed will. Sound fell from heaven and words were given for tongue exercises. A universal language moves through a delayed, mythical abduction. Until then, it is our decision to present the living, a fraud. But ethics / morality of good behavior rises as a hope of happiness. A secret paradox of naked truth lies in warrior hands.
Concept, choreography, performance: Ana Rocha
Artistic consulting: Jorge Gonçalves
Coproduction: Mezzanine
With the support of NEC – Núcleo de Experimentação Coreográfica (PT) and Uferstudios Berlin
Thanks to Coaching Project colleagues, Peter Pleyer, Ciglia Gadola and Franziska Schrage, Sandra Blatterer and Susana Alonso, Connie Breitkreuz, Barbara Friedrich and Thomas Schaupp
Sophiensaele, Berlin, 2012
Of nature in front of us. In the beginning was a tree which later grew with a blessed will. Sound fell from heaven and words were given for tongue exercises. A universal language moves through a delayed, mythical abduction. Until then, it is our decision to present the living, a fraud. But ethics / morality of good behavior rises as a hope of happiness. A secret paradox of naked truth lies in warrior hands.
Concept, choreography, performance: Ana Rocha
Artistic consulting: Jorge Gonçalves
Coproduction: Mezzanine
With the support of NEC – Núcleo de Experimentação Coreográfica (PT) and Uferstudios Berlin
Thanks to Coaching Project colleagues, Peter Pleyer, Ciglia Gadola and Franziska Schrage, Sandra Blatterer and Susana Alonso, Connie Breitkreuz, Barbara Friedrich and Thomas Schaupp
Toda a Gente Vai 2024
Rolling Stones aka O que dizes dito dir-se-á 2022
CURADURA 2021 curatorial program
City Maquette 2012 curatorial program
Life as it is Lived 2021 \ 2022
Ariadne 2015 curatorial program
Ariadne, 2015, Porto
- co-curator for Peter Stamer and Silke Bake residency, workshop and presentation at Porto Internacional Beach, involving local artists and participants, in partnership with a group of architects and researchers
- Guest artists: Bernardo Amaral (BAAU), Peter Stamer, Silke Bake and with vírgula i collective: JP Pereira, Leonor Macedo, Pedro Guedes and Teresa Aguiar. Co-curated with Jorge Gonçalves \ MEZZANINE
Praia Internacional do Porto, Porto, July 2015
Ariadne is an international project, organized and promoted by MEZZANINE in collaboration with Peter Stamer, Silke Bake, virgula i (architects collective) and BAAU (Bernardo Amaral Arquitectura + Urbanismo). The project will take place publicly in July 2016, where more than 30 artists, performers, choreographers, students of visual arts and architects, national, and international, will create at Porto International Beach, the meeting point for the development of an interdisciplinary project, which will involve the participation of the general public. This temporary community will provide between themselves production knowledge and artistic practices in an intercultural context. During 4 weeks, this group will plan and build a labyrinth at human scale, from euro-pallets. During the construction period, movement practice, performance / improvisation presentation and classes will take place in parallel with a number of events of free participation, seminars and forums, addressed to all interested members of the public.
Praia Internacional do Porto, Porto, July 2015
Ariadne is an international project, organized and promoted by MEZZANINE in collaboration with Peter Stamer, Silke Bake, virgula i (architects collective) and BAAU (Bernardo Amaral Arquitectura + Urbanismo). The project will take place publicly in July 2016, where more than 30 artists, performers, choreographers, students of visual arts and architects, national, and international, will create at Porto International Beach, the meeting point for the development of an interdisciplinary project, which will involve the participation of the general public. This temporary community will provide between themselves production knowledge and artistic practices in an intercultural context. During 4 weeks, this group will plan and build a labyrinth at human scale, from euro-pallets. During the construction period, movement practice, performance / improvisation presentation and classes will take place in parallel with a number of events of free participation, seminars and forums, addressed to all interested members of the public.
Um Olhar a Preto e Branco e um País na Sombra da Luz 2015
Dei-te o Mundo de Bandeja 2023
Café Asa de Mosca, home and meeting place for many of us, humans and non-humans, creatives and artists, producers and musicians, inhabitants of the Bonfim neighborhood, will be the stage for another long-term performance-concert meeting. Dei-te o mundo de bandeja, brings together the delicate work of ceramist-sculptor Sofia Beça, the musical genius and real-time composition of drummer Pedro Melo Alves, the versatility and keen listening of musician and DJ Otsoa, and the body-spirit-person of choreographer and performer Ana Rocha, who, in a rigorous and structured line, provide their tools for a unique moment of improvisation and experimentation. In a world where we demand spaces for creation and possibilities for moving new universes where the collective is more than the apparent, the material, the superficial, we challenge ourselves at Asa de Mosca to touch closely and dive into that which is a little bigger than us, or a given on a silver platter.
Dei-te o mundo de bandeja, more than an expression of everyday life, it invites us to a space-time in which everything is already there in potential, before us this world, before us this service of manifest and common, before us everything else that regenerates itself like water, sound, earth, touches and exchanges, transforms and expands.
Dei-te o mundo de bandeja, more than an expression of everyday life, it invites us to a space-time in which everything is already there in potential, before us this world, before us this service of manifest and common, before us everything else that regenerates itself like water, sound, earth, touches and exchanges, transforms and expands.
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