sempre viva cobra d’água, by Jota Mombaça
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Gulbenkian GardenInterdisciplinary in nature, this work moves through the realms of sculpture, public art and durational performance.
Continuing her engagement with issues relating to water and the radical performance of “sinking”, Jota Mombaça presents a project that incorporates a ritual process involving voice, sound and physical performance. It is a moment of connection between material life, perishable or mutable, and the forces that govern and transform it.
With its starting point in the CAM Foyer, the audience will be invited to follow a journey taken by Jota Mombaça and performer Luan Okum, who carry a seven-metre horizontal ceramic piece to the source of the Garden’s creek, a stream of water that flows to the lake winding through the vegetation, where the piece will be sunk. This walk will be punctuated by murmurs chanted by the artist and by the performer, which echo through the garden, creating a moment that is both stripped back and ceremonial.
In dialogue with Leonor Antunes exhibition, the ceramic piece, made up of small cylindrical blocks and discs joined by a sisal rope, will remain sunken for its duration. The work is then transformed by time and the forces of nature.
Biographies
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Jota Mombaça
Jota Mombaça (Brazil, 1991) is an interdisciplinary artist and writer based between Lisbon and Amsterdam. Her work derives from poetry, critical theory and performance, and her practice relates to anti-colonial critique and gender disobedience. She has presented work in various institutional contexts, including the 32nd and 34th São Paulo Biennale, the 10th Berlin Biennale, the 22nd Sydney Biennale and the 46th Salón Nacional de Artistas in Colombia. She wrote the book ‘NÃO VÃO NOS MATAR AGORA’, published in Portugal in 2019 by EGEAC and in Brazil in 2021 by Editora Cobogó.
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Luan Okun
Luan Okun (Ituiutaba, Brazil, 1995) is a dissident migrant artist based in Lisbon since 2018. In 2014, he joined the theatre course at the Federal University of Uberlândia. He produced and taught workshops at the O Olho da Rua Cultural Movement in 2018. He has collaborated with artists such as Puta da Silva, Jota Mombaça and Tita Maravilha. Okum has created the performance ‘O Jeito que o Corpo Dá’, shown at festivals such as Ano Zero and at the Galeria Nacional do Porto. He performed in ‘Cosmos’ by Auroras Negras and ‘As Três Irmãs’ by Tita Maravilha, and presented ‘Corpo Lento’ at the São Luís Theatre and at the ASPHALT festival, in Sweden. His practice explores the subjectivities of the racialised body and the complexities of dissident identity.
Credits
Main image
'sinking could be', 2022. Sinking sculptures on the Singelgracht canal, Amsterdam. Photo: Pedro Yared Lima.
Composition and sound landscape
Jota Mombaça
Co-performer
Luan Okun
Executive production
Pedro Yared Lima
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