Promoted by BoCA - Biennial of Contemporary Arts, in partnership with CCB and MAC, Mutantes - entre o teatro e o museu is a participatory project that aims to bring together a community of people to explore transdisciplinarity as a space for thought, practice and a tool for collective cultural constructions.
It focuses on the dialog between the stage and the museum as artistic instances configured by devices that aggregate strategies for making things seen. Rather than addressing the discourses and practices of various artistic genres, the aim is to explore and question the contamination between them, investigating the urgency of changing, transforming, readapting, varying and transmuting.
It is driven by the recognition of the paradigm of the device, both in the performing arts and in exhibition contexts, and aims to look at the places of art, questioning the ways in which it is made. It thus questions the performative dimension of places and things, between the stage arts and the plastic arts, analyzing the particularities in common but also provoking formats that exceed them.
Part I - 1st grade meetings
4 Sessions of initial exploration of contents, provocations, group creation, and development of multiple practices (writing practices, expanded drawing, body, recording, spatial manipulation and collections of objects).
Part II - 2nd grade meetings
6 sessions of meetings: 3 sessions with 3 different artists, interspersed with another 3 sessions with Sara Franqueira, to build bridges between the artists’ sessions, part I of the project and possible final actions in part III.
Part III - 3rd degree encounters
2 Sessions with an admittedly unfinished conclusion, gathering ideas and dimensions that have been uncovered or are of future interest and a possible collective performance proposal that mirrors the group’s process.
Mutantes is inspired by the potential of (de)formation, genetic hybridism (between one thing and another), here between the stage and the exhibition halls, and the crossing of source materials (sets of parts of other sets), here seeking to disorganize genres, essences, roots, identities and places, diving into the speculation of new artistic paradigms.
The project is open to anyone aged 21 or over who is interested in the arts in general, in meeting other people with interests in the interdisciplinary field and who likes to share references, ask questions and, above all, integrate meeting processes and collective practices.
Don’t forget:
1. Most mutations are invisible.
2. The same mutation can reappear periodically.
3. Mutations are always sudden and unforeseen changes in inherited material.
4. You have to fill in our form to answer this call and be part of this group of thinkers, manipulators, mutants who make other mutations.
