Raquel collects collectors that she meets in the cities where she passes by. Raquel collects the collectors themselves. She asks them to tell her a secret. She asks them to tell her what is like to be a collector. She also asks them to let her collect them. We collect what escape from our hands. What memory does an object carries in itself?  In Collection of Collectors, we collect the other and we keep what is not to keep. Through an interview to collectors from different cities talk about memory. After all what do we keep to ourselves? This piece acts as a window to show her collection of collectors. Until this moment the collection has collectors (until July 2017) from Paredes de Coura, Valença, Vila Nova de Cerveira, Monção and Melgaço (PT), Berlin (GR). Kortrijk (BE), Ponta Delgada.

This work is part of the project Collection of People: Collection of Lovers, Collection of Collectors, Collection of Artists and Collection of Spectators.  

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Original idea, directed, produced and performed by Raquel André
Co-created by António Pedro Lopes, Bernardo de Almeida and Raquel André 
Video Diogo Lima
Music noiserv
Lighting designer Rui Monteiro
Light adaptaion and technical direction on tour Eduardo Abdala, Cárin Geada
Communication António Pedro Lopes
Executive production Mónica Talina

PROJECT WINNER OF SECOND EDITION OF ISABEL ALVES COSTA SCHOLARSHIP 2016
Coproduction Teatro Municipal do Porto Rivoli – Campo Alegre, Festival de Marionetas do Porto and Comédias do Minho. 
Documentation Mariana Dixe With the support of BUDA (Kortrijk), Tanzfabrik (Berlim)

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The performances of Collection of Collectors at Walk&Talk have the support of Direcção Regional da Cultura- Governo dos Açores, Arquipélago - Centro de Artes Contemporâneas and Teatro Micaelense