Museu Encantador é um projeto de performance e artes visuais sobre “encantamento” e memória entre Brasil e Portugal, cujo desafio é pensar a construção de um museu como uma performance, uma coleção de artes visuais, onde o corpo se oferece como guia para reinventar a memória colonial. Mas como relacionar as culturas brasileira e portuguesa através do encantamento? Uma coleção onde o corpo se ofere
ce como guia de encantos, junção de hipnose e futebol, fado e levitação, encontros improváveis entre figuras da cultura portuguesa e brasileira. O museu do tamanho do corpo, o museu da cultura que o corpo carrega, uma performance indissociada de uma instalação. Este projeto foi iniciado pela artista portuguesa Rita Natálio, a partir do seu mestrado no Núcleo de Subjetividade da PUC-SP, com o apoio da Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, em Portugal, e orientação do Prof. Para este projeto, convidou a diretora carioca Joana Levi para cocuradoria e codireção; Eduardo Verderame para o desenho do espaço expositivo; Teresa Silva como performer; e Marta Mestre para assistência curatorial. E, junto com a equipe, delinearam um processo de criação em rede com vários artistas convidados de Portugal e do Brasil, também chamados de “doadores de encantos”. Participaram, desde 2014, os brasileiros André Lepecki, Bruno Rezende & Claudinho Dias, Fabio Zucker, Icaro Ferraz Vidal Junior, João Penoni, Júlia de Carvalho Hansen, Gustavo Ciríaco, Helena Katz, Laura Erber, Letícia Novaes, Marcela Levi, Paulo Bruscky, Peter Pál Pelbart, Suely Rolnik e os portugueses André Teodósio, Ana Gandum, Ana Borralho & João Galante, Gonçalo Tocha, Miguel Pereira e Rita Brás. ENGLISH
Museum of enchantment
Museum of Enchantment is a performance and visual arts project about “enchantment” and memory between Brazil and Portugal, where we are challenged to think about the construction of a museum as a performance – a visual arts collection where the body offers itself as a guide to the reinvention of colonial memory. However, how can we establish a relationship between Brazilian and Portuguese culture through enchantment? What a museum of enchantment might be? A collection where the body offers itself as a guide to enchantments, the coming together of hypnosis and soccer, fado, and levitation, unlikely encounters between figures of Brazilian and Portuguese culture. A museum that is the same size as the body, a museum for the culture the body carries within itself, a performance inseparably linked to an installation. The project was launched by Portuguese artist Rita Natálio, based on her Master’s research at the Center of Subjectivity of PUC-SP, with the support of Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation from Portugal, and advised by Professor Peter Pal Pélbart. For this project, she invited Joana Levi, a director from Rio de Janeiro, as a co-curator and co-director. Eduardo Verderame was invited to work with the exhibition design; Teresa Silva was invited as a performer, Marta Mestre provided the curatorial assistance and, along with the crew, they outlined an interlinked creative process with a network of various artists from Portugal and Brazil, also called “enchantment donors”. Since 2014, the following Brazilian artists were part of the project: André Lepecki, Bruno Rezende & Claudinho Dias, Fabio Zucker, Icaro Ferraz Vidal Junior, João Penoni, Júlia de Carvalho Hansen, Gustavo Ciríaco, Helena Katz, Laura Erber, Letícia Novaes, Marcela Levi, Paulo Bruscky, Peter Pál Pelbart, Suely Rolnik, as well as Portuguese artists André Teodósio, Ana Gandum, Ana Borralho & João Galante, Gonçalo Tocha, Miguel Pereira e Rita Brás. Museu Encantador received an award granted by the 10ª Prêmio Funarte Redes Artes Visuais and premiered in October of 2014 at the Museu de Arte Moderna of Rio de Janeiro. In June of 2015, it was introduced as an artistic residency during the Festival Internacional de Teatro Expressão Ibérica in Porto. The artist-in-residence program offered by Centre International des Récollets, selected the project for a 3 months long artistic residency in Paris. Now it is being presented at CAIXA in December of 2015.
