UNA
Performative research on hiv, based on biographical, biomedical and sociopolitical issues. It’s about the invisible and becoming visible. Based on a dramaturgy based on metaphors and bodily states, it explores transformation processes driven by coexistence with the hiv virus. The idea is expanded through interviews with those who live with the virus and stories of resilience of other bodies, in the search for a multi-vocal perspective, capable of approaching the complexity of the subject.
How to embody the invisible ?
How to talk about taboo ?
How to move
and deconstruct prejudices?
A raw performance that discusses social issues such as discrimination, oppression and the resilience of bodies in dialogue with these issues. UNA talks about changing your skin, it talks about a new condition of life. It’s about a body in transformation.
Created by Teresa Fabião, hiv+ artivist, it is a transdisciplinary performance work in progress
CREATION &PERFORMANCE: Teresa Fabião
DRAMATURGICAL SUPPORT: Ronaldo Serruya & Luciano Amarelo
VIDEO: Luís Rosa Lopes
SONOPLASTY: Claudio Tavares
LIGHTING: Luísa L'Abatte
COSTUME: Patricia Costa
PRODUCTION: Clara Charmel & Patrícia Dis
DESIGN: Pedro Cunha
DIGITAL COMMUNICATION: Margarida Mata
GRANTS: Gulbenkian Foundation, GDA Foundation, Victor Cordon Studios, Self-Mistake, CAMPUS Paulo Cunha e Silva
This performance is part of IMUNE, a social intervention project that creates a dialogue between the areas of art, health and education. Expressive arts workshops, urban interventions, school lectures, performances and conversations with the public will be happening althroughout this itinerary project. The goal is to raise hiv awareness (a pandemic that is lasting for 40 years), reflecting on the resonances with the current pandemic, and sharing the wisdom of positive bodies that for long have been developing resilient responses in the face of uncertainty.
Circulation:
- Mindelact Festival l November 2021 l Cape Verde (international premiere)
- Municipal Theater of Guarda l 2022 (co-production)
