Cut by all sides, open by all corners, Gustavo Ciríaco’s new creation, invites the audience to a rhapsodic journey through the territories that configure the theatre as a scenic, sociological and architectonic space and its connections to the surrounding world. Thought as a site-specific project, Cut by all sides, open by all corners is an itinerant piece through the space of the theatre that operates like an expanded sculpture. The piece creates a field of positioning, staging and manipulation of the reality from where the spectator stands, building up an interpretation through a theater in dislocation. Just as in a sculpture, where the cut gives access to a fruition that includes the reality around, the theatre is this multiple and complex site, cut by all sides, open by all corners, which hosts people in different platforms of interaction and distinct agents in operation. By way of comparison to the relational sculptures of minimalist artists Donald Judd and Robert Rauschenberg, characterized by the inclusion of elements of subtle interactive appeal, this project intends to displace and relocate the elements that produce theatricality. By moving these elements to other spaces in the same building and neighboring areas, the idea is to dispose them as provokers of performativity. An expanded theatre sets in, activated by the audience, through its position in space, its viewing point. A theatre is thus re-shaped with the same elements that distinguish it and constitute it as an experience.


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Art Residency Program - Performing Arts
2017/2018

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Cut by all sides, open by all corners is commissioned by the Portuguese National Theatre Dona Maria II, in partnership with Alkantara Festival for the 2018 Spring season. It counts with the support of Walk&Talk, Teatro Micaelense, Espaço do Tempo and Espaço Alkantara for the artistic residencies.