WITHOUT MERCY - PERFORMANCES

Vera Mota, André Sousa

Next saturday, 22:00 at Rua do Sol, Vera Mota proposes Queda, Evento, Composição, Figura III, a new version of the performance created in 2013, in which the artist unites disordered gestures to schemas and rules of selecting and categorizing. In this work, the author notes, "looking for a place of affection of materials and by materials. Witnessing an attempt to create some agreement between their disorder and the obsessive need of the subject who handles them to organize". She adds: "An attitude of compliance and simultaneously of control, this action sends the body into the background, as a mere manager or worker of this gear. Its presence is only a reference scale, amplitude and threshold. The rules defined during the action allow the management of the materials and the successive events, thus assisting to the construction of a composition dictated by chance, but always constrained by the rules established before. In this performance the access to decision moments is offered, the moments of hesitation and how they settle in space, during the passage of time".

On sunday it's André Sousa's turn to reveal, in front of Gato Vadio, his latest work, the performance Chapelinho: 

"Hey Mrs. Benedita, that lad just broke your storefront.
Would you accept my services? I'm a good glazier
and for this price you'll not find another artist."

"No reed to filter the voice, we are far from a true show of Don Roberto. This puppetry is concerned with telling the story of how we got here and evoke the figure of João Barbelas (Raul Solnado in Ernesto de Sousa's film) crossing Lisbon with his Roberto's (portuguese hand puppets) or Chaplin in games of survival in the city that changes".