Performative Circuit, Artistic Residencies
Cut by all sides, open by all corners+info
27 july / 19h00
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.