Which Brazil? Portuqual? by Ricardo Aleixo
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Date
- 18:30 / Cancelled 18:30 / Sold out Thursday, 18:30
Location
Auditorium 2 Calouste Gulbenkian FoundationPricing
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In this performance, artist Ricardo Aleixo explores the points of tension that have historically marked relations between hegemonic cultures and those subjugated by colonialism.
The performance is a kind of ‘environmental book’, interweaving poems, excerpts from interviews and theoretical essays, graphics, phrases in an invented language, video images and sounds captured in different cities around the world, and real-time ‘vocographic’ and ‘corpographic’ improvisations.
An artist with a strong experimental bent, who dialogues both with the legacy of the 20th-century avant-garde and with the most radical strands of Afro-diasporic art and thought, Aleixo expands the set of uncomfortable questions that characterise his poetics: ‘Which Brazil? Portuqual?’
This event is part of the complementary programme for the exhibition complexo brasil, curated by José Miguel Wisnik, Guilherme Wisnik and Milena Britto.
Biographies
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Ricardo Aleixo
Poet, writer, visual artist, performer and researcher of intermedia poetics, Ricardo Aleixo holds a PhD in Literature from UFMG. He has published 23 books. He has performed in several countries and won numerous awards. He was a researcher at New York University and, since 2024, has been a visiting professor at UFBA/Federal University of Bahia. In the Campo Alegre neighbourhood of Belo Horizonte, he runs LIRA/Ricardo Aleixo Interarts Laboratory, his space for creation, research, cultural production and archiving of collections on the experimental side of Brazilian art and Afro-Diaspora cultures.
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Natália Alves
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