Fortune Wheel

Through words we name and interpret situations, through them the unknown becomes tangible, the ineffable imaginable. What can happen in the encounter between words and the materiality of the world? How can the meanings of words be affected by the verbs and qualities associated with materials?

RODA VIVA is an interactive work by Brazilian choreographer Gustavo Ciríaco, in collaboration with João Gonçalo Lopes and light designer Tomás Ribas, inspired by the spatial poetics of Portuguese choreographer Claudia Dias and the impact of her childhood experience of seeing Guernica, the famous manifesto work by Spanish painter Pablo Picasso against war and injustice.

At a time when the world seems to be repeating in various ways what was experienced in Guernica, it is even more pertinent to discuss and ethically re-examine the foundations that unite us in this world on the precipice. How can we position art as a critical point of view on the world, or rather, how can we invite people to become actively aware of the pressing issues of the moment through a performative device that mixes naming and representation? Between testimony and exhibition, scrutiny and spectacle, voyeurism and event, what words guide, build and bring us together?

RODA VIVA is part of the Collection Covered by the sky, a series of installations and performances  centered on the relationship between landscape and art designed by the Brazilian choreographer Gustavo Ciríaco in collaboration with artists from Argentina, Brazil, Chile and Portugal. The project’s challenge is to invent ways of translating and re-installing landscape experiences through installation and performative devices. The challenge, therefore, is the possibility of providing the general public with a privileged view of the fabrication of space by artists from different fields of art, from music to sculpture, from dance to visual arts.

VÍDEO

MANIFESTO

ACTION

DATES

Panorama. March 23th, 2025. Rio de Janeiro, BR.

NAVE, March 15th and 16th, 2024. Santiago, CL. PREMIÈRE.

Conception and artistic direction
Gustavo Ciríaco

Artistic collaboration
João Gonçalo Lopes, Tomás Ribas

Guest artist
Cláudia Dias

Set designer
João Gonçalo Lopes

Lighting
Tomás Ribas

Photos

Vicente, Coletivo Clap

Administration
Missanga Antunes

Production direction

Carolina Gameiro (Portugal)
Priscila Maia – Dos Voos (Brasil)

Realization
Efémera Colecção & Névoa-Nada

Creative residencies
Devir/CAPA (Faro), Residências Artísticas Pico do Refúgio (Rabo de Peixe), Novo Negócio/ZDB(Lisbon), NAVE (Santiago).

Research support
THIRD – Academy of Dance and Theatre – Amsterdam University of the Arts

Support
Portuguese Republic – Culture – DGARTES – Direção Geral das Artes

 

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