Amanda Gatti

WORKS

performing arts
filmography
territorio de rupturas collective
work in progress

PERFORMING ARTS

The projects below were presented in unconventional spaces, such as urban scenery in dialogue with architecture, alternative art galleries and other venues. Each project includes a detailed description.

Carne Viva / Raw

Brazil | 2019 ⎯ site specific performance

A live performance created and executed by the artistic duo Amanda Gatti and Pedro Mendes where the latter perfomed by moving and photographing while blinded by a mask.

An excercise in voyeurism and sensoriality inspired by Surrealist imagery that aimed to both shed a critical light and provoke a rupture on the typical behaviour found in the enviroment of a nightclub - the place were the performance happened.

Who's next?

Brazil | 2019 ⎯ site specific performance

As a performance created to happen in a nightclub, it takes inspiration from the cult film "Liquid Sky", by Slava Tsukerman. Bringing elements of transformation through makeup, the performer carries with her the head of a mannequin while she regurgitates an ironic text about conservatism, capitalism and the artistic medium.

Escape-Epacse

Brazil | 2016 ⎯ site specific performance

The performance was presented at the Casiere Gallery (Porto Alegre, Brazil) during the ''Escape'' exhibition curated by Fagner Damasceno. Sound installation by sound engineer André Di Napoli. Costume by Sergio Amaro - later exhibited as an installation with a intervention by the artist Pedro Matsuo.

To Escape can also be and encounter with yourself. It's an intimate wound.

Radio-Activity

Brazil | 2019 ⎯ site specific performance

A performatic dance inspired by the technological melody of the german band Kraftwerk, merged with an expressionist aesthetic and a strobo-lighted choreography based in slow-motion movements.

The site-specif performance happened a nightclub (Bar Ocidente) and a gallery (Acervo Independente) in the South of Brazil.

Undressing the Prejudice

Brazil | 2016 ⎯ site specific performance

An urban performance that took place at the touristic landmark “Ponte de Pedra”, a bridge in Porto Alegre, south Brazil. Through the fragility that a seminude body exposes, we brought to attention the fragile state of public spaces left overlooked.

Os Quintais de Porto Alegre

Brazil | 2015 ⎯ site specific performance

This project received the prize Funarte de Artes de Rua (Brazilian government's prize for urban arts). The performance intended to show ways to occupy, view, inhabit and live together in the public yards of the city of Porto Alegre, Brazil.

Through activities that could and that already took place in these yards, we invite spectators to discover and rediscover these spaces, to stay there and come back after the performance.

A Inauguração / The Inauguration

Brazil | 2013 - 2014 ⎯ site specific performance

The street theatre play was part of the research entitled “Poetics and politics in the Contemporary Street Theater Scene” by Evelise Mendes in the Postgraduate Program in Performing Arts (PPGAC / UFRGS - BR).

In the play, there is the inauguration ceremony of a "false" monument.

The performance was part of Festival Internacional de Teatro de Rua de Porto Alegre (2014, Brazil)

Ilha dos amores / Island of loves

Brazil | 2013 ⎯ site specific performance

An urban performance in the city of Porto Alegre, south Brazil, inspired by “The Bathers” by Pierre Auguste Renoir. The performance wanted to bring attention to the central canal “Arroio Dilúvio” that used to be a public leisure area. That was left neglected, and surrounded by rubbish and pollution.

The performance was part of Porto Alegre Em Cena Festival (2013, Brazil)

Night of the living dead redux

Brazil | 2018 ⎯ play

Imitating The Dog (England)

The performance was part of Porto Alegre Em Cena Festival (2018, Brazil)

Andorra

Brazil | 2018 ⎯ site specific performance

Nina DeLudemann (Goethe-Institut)

Cegos

Brazil | 2014 ⎯ urban performance

Desvio Coletivo (São Paulo-Brazil)

The performance was part of Festival Internacional de Teatro de Rua de Porto Alegre (2014, Brazil)

Padox dans la citè

Brazil | 2013 ⎯ urban performance

Compagnie Houdart Heuclin (France)

The performance was part of Festival Internacional de Teatro de Rua de Porto Alegre (2013, Brazil)

Antes de Mais Nada Tudo

Brazil | 2019 ⎯ site-specific performance

A performance work based on the text 'Regurgitofagia' by Michel Melamed. A piece/installation that deals with nihilistic issues, love and Brazilian society where the public is invited to build together and from their cell phones.

Solquegira.doc

Brazil | 2014-15 ⎯ documentary theatre

Through the concepts of Documentary Theatre, the play Solquegira.doc gives body and voice to the memories of the writer Lydia Francisconi. With a conversational tone, the audience is invited to be part of the memorial and sensory flourishes that the performance provides.

Guest actress at the UFRGS Theater School (Brazil) to create and perform in 'Solquegira.doc, final project of the students Joice Rossato and Ketti Maria.

The Building

Brazil | 2014-15 ⎯ play

The dramaturgy is based on the work of cartoonist Will Eisner and proposes a reflection on the troubled human relationships in urban centers, which are increasingly chaotic.

Guest actress at the UFRGS Theater School (Brazil) to create and perform in 'O Edifício', final project by student Gabriela Boccardi.

Juegos a la hora de la siesta

Brazil | 2013 ⎯ play

The performance was part of SESC RS Leituras Dramáticas (2013, Brazil)

FILMOGRAPHY

collaborations with Pedro Mendes (filmmaker and visual artist)

Amarelo Cárcere / Yellow Cage

Brazil | 2021

short film

An experimental work blurs the lines between film and video art, flirting with the horror cinema and exploring a dreamlike aesthetic marked by symbolic imagery and fragmented editing, as well as an organic and atmospheric soundscape.

Inspired by the emblematic feminist horror tale, "The Yellow Wallpaper" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman; the artwork explores themes such as feminism and mental health.

FESTIVALS:

2021 Mostra SESC de Cinema (BR)

2021 Mostra Play The Movie (BR)

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Vanilla Underground

UK | 2021

16mm short film

Shot on 16mm. The film follows Brendan, a man who struggles with his identity after a sexual encounter with a male prostitute takes an unexpected turn.

Vanilla Underground explores the ambiguity of human sexuality and the thin line between pleasure and violence, specially when these are contained in the same experience or expressed in similar ways.

SCREENINGS

2021 London Film School (UK)

TERRITÓRIO DE RUPTURAS
collective

Território de Rupturas is a multidisciplinary collective co-founded by Brazilian artists Amanda Gatti, Gustiele Fistaról and Tiago Gasperin in 2020, who propose to investigate possibilities of creations - digital and/or in person - based on the artistic experiences of each member.

The collective, currently based in Brazil, Germany and the United Kingdom, researches and creates, above all, from the terms “border” and “immigration”, understood as a place of “difference” in the theory of “Dérive” by the Situationist Guy Debord on the act of walking and the concept of “Infraordinary” by Georges Perec, that relates everyday life and art.

Since its foundation, the collective has created several video performances that have been shown in national and international festivals. It also carried out training for research and audiovisual artists, through cultural support funds. Its last action was a Workshop that resulted in a collective drift with participants from several countries in South America and Europe.

Borders: Territory of Ruptures

Italy/Brazil | 2020
video art, 3'

Exhibition/Screenings:
2020 Cinefone Festival (BR)
2020 SPMAV UFPEL (Pelotas, BR)
2021 2055 UFBA (Bahia, BR)
2021 Art Gene - Digital Notes (UK)
2021 Trela - Videoart Festival (Pelotas, BR)
2021 Arte Postal Digital (Pelotas, BR)
2021 Mov.Cidade Festival (Vitória, BR)
2021 Exit BR (EU)
2022 No More Hot Air (Barrow-in-Furness, UK)

*Conceived during the lockdown, selected in the funding FAC Digital RS Brazil

Deriva Transversal

UK/Brazil | 2021
video performance, 14'

Exhibition/Screenings:
2022 Festivau de C4nn3s (Porto Alegre, BR)
2022 Astro (Berlin, DE)
2021 Imaginários Urbanos (Fortaleza, BR)
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Deriva Transversal: onde as cidades se encontram
Brazil | 2021
book

2021 Imaginários Urbanos (Fortaleza, BR)
Desobediências Poéticas
ISBN: 978-65-5556-194-4

Borders: Territory of Investigation

Brazil | 2021
education project

*Conceived during the lockdown, selected in the funding Criação e Formação by Fundação Marcopolo - Brazil

Borders in Movement

UK/Brazil | 2020
video performance, 1'30"

Exhibition/Screenings:
2020 Kino Beat Musicircus (Porto Alegre, BR)

WORK IN PROGRESS

My body is not your country

London/UK ⎯ solo

A solo performance written and performed by Marta Bonito with direction by Amanda Gatti

Litoral - what we carry with us

UK, BR | Video art

A video art that experiences my relationship with the Atlantic Ocean in two coastal cities of the globe - Tramandaí (South of Brazil) and Brighton (South of England) - in which I transport a handful of sand from one beach to another. I believe that there is a kind of solitude and smallness in the relationship between human beings and the oceanic landscape. We create an idea of infinity when we are in front of the sea, often forgetting that it connects continents instead of separating them by "creating borders".

After Myself

Artistic collaboration in the short film "After Myself" directed by Pedro Mendes

Shooting in London | Sept 22

AMANDAGATTI

WORKS

performing arts
filmography
territorio de rupturas collective
work in progress

PERFORMING ARTS

The projects below were presented in unconventional spaces, such as urban scenery in dialogue with architecture, alternative art galleries and other venues. Each project includes a detailed description.

FILMOGRAPHY

collaborations with Pedro Mendes (filmmaker and visual artist)

Amarelo Cárcere / Yellow Cage

Brazil | 2021

short film

An experimental work blurs the lines between film and video art, flirting with the horror cinema and exploring a dreamlike aesthetic marked by symbolic imagery and fragmented editing, as well as an organic and atmospheric soundscape.

Vanilla Underground

UK | 2021

16mm short film

Shot on 16mm. The film follows Brendan, a man who struggles with his identity after a sexual encounter with a male prostitute takes an unexpected turn.

TERRITÓRIO DE RUPTURAS
collective

WORK IN PROGRESS

AMANDAGATTI

WORKS

performing arts filmography territorio de rupturas collective work in progress

PERFORMING ARTS

The projects below were presented in unconventional spaces, such as urban scenery in dialogue with architecture, alternative art galleries and other venues. Each project includes a detailed description.

FILMOGRAPHY

collaborations with Pedro Mendes (filmmaker and visual artist)

Amarelo Cárcere / Yellow Cage

Brazil | 2021

short film

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An experimental work blurs the lines between film and video art, flirting with the horror cinema and exploring a dreamlike aesthetic marked by symbolic imagery and fragmented editing, as well as an organic and atmospheric soundscape.

Vanilla Underground

UK | 2021

16mm short film

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Shot on 16mm. The film follows Brendan, a man who struggles with his identity after a sexual encounter with a male prostitute takes an unexpected turn.

TERRITÓRIO DE RUPTURAS collective

WORK IN PROGRESS

AMANDAGATTI

performing arts
filmography
territorio de rupturas collective
work in progress

TERRITÓRIO DE RUPTURAS
collective