The Body Arts department at Unicamp's Institute of Arts (IA) will receive, over the next few months, the contribution of an artist specialized in site specific, a type of intervention in urban spaces that takes into account people, the history of the place, its architectural characteristics, among others. He is Brazilian Gustavo Cirático, who lives in Lisbon, Portugal, but will stay at Unicamp until June as a resident artist.
The agreement to join the program was signed by the artist and the rector José Tadeu Jorge on Thursday (9). Cirião calls “Meu nome é Jorge”, the artistic residency project that will lead to the development of the creative studio “Cut on all sides, open on all corners” developed with the university’s art students.
The artist will interact with the undergraduate Dance course subjects, and in postgraduate Dance laboratories, activities open to other students at the Institute of Arts, in addition to offering workshops for the community. It is the third time that Unicamp's Dance area has welcomed a resident artist.
The name Cirático was proposed by professor Daniela Gatti, coordinator of the Dance degree. According to her, the notice already provided for the hiring of an artist from site-specific. “Dance goes beyond the relationship with the Italian stage, it is also in other spaces, it covers several aesthetic fronts. In this case, space is also the protagonist of the creative process.”
Daniela says that the artist already worked in Campinas in 2015, when he carried out an intervention in the Castle Tower. Also according to Daniela, in addition to carrying out the work in the Unicamp space, there is a partnership with Sesc Bom Retiro to present the final show of the program.
The project
Gustavo Cirático states that he wants to create a piece that is ambulatory, that is, one that wanders, inviting the public to a journey “through the territories that configure the theater as a scenic, sociological and architectural space and make it tangential with the world that runs around it” .
In the project, the theater is seen as a space for relationships, like an “expanded sculpture” or a multiple place that welcomes people on different interaction platforms. “Inspired by the relational works of American minimalist sculptors, where there was the inclusion of elements of interactive appeal, the project intends to take the elements that create theatricality to other spaces and arrange them as provocateurs of performativity”, he highlights.
With the intention of diversifying viewers' points of view, elements will be repositioned. “Curtains, for example, act on the border between the space of the scene and the real world of the audience. When transferred to the space in front of the theater or even to its entrance doors, the curtains would slide an expectation of a common event on the stage into an intermediate area of circulation and separation of public spaces”.
The creation process will involve two weekly meetings in addition to a meeting outside the university campus in a theater space, in partnership with external institutions. The project is part of the first stage of the creation of the show of the same name for its definitive debut in Lisbon next year.
Gustavo Ciriaco was born in Rio de Janeiro. He is a choreographer and contextual artist, whose work moves between the performing arts and the arts of image, performance, architecture, anthropology and landscaping. Political scientist and dancer, Cirático formed the Ikswalsinats Dance Duo with Frederico Paredes for ten years, which marked an important moment in national contemporary dance.
The profile site-specific, is in the works that seek dialogue between context and architecture, geography and housing, reality and fiction. His work involves dance, theater, video, landscape constructions, storytelling and urban actions in “conversation pieces”. The artist has an international career, with passages from the Americas to Asia, Europe and the Middle East.
