Amanda Gatti

WORKS

live performance
audiovisual
territorio de rupturas collective
photography
work in progress

photo by Gustavo Razzera | performed by Amanda Gatti

Site-Specific Perfomance

LIVE PERFORMANCE

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

My body is not your country

London/UK | 2022 ~ work in progress ⎯ solo

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

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 ⎯ live performance

The performance was presented during the homonymous exhibition ''Escape'' curated by Fagner Damasceno. The work combines physical and sound movement. The blood that pulsates from the veins and leaks over the skin. The things we hold on to and the moment we need to escape from them. Inspired by Butoh expressiveness, also know as"Dance of Darkness", in reference to the unknown that surrounds the body. Sound installation by sound engineer André Di Napoli. Costume design by Sergio Amaro - later exhibited as an installation with an intervention by the artist Pedro Matsuo.

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.

Radio-Activity

Brazil | 2015 ⎯ 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)

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)

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)

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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.

Cinema

AUDIOVISUAL

Cine Viaje

Spain, France | 2017

video art

A young woman travels alone in the south of France and Catalonia (Spain) recording everything she finds on her way. She has only two certainties: she must visit the Museo del Cinema in Girona, and the train station of La Ciotat - the place where the Lumière brothers shot what is considered by some the first film ever made, "Arrival of a train at La Ciotat" (1895).

A letter

Brazil | 2015

short film | essay

Months after her grandmother passed away, Amanda, still a teenager at the time, records banal things from her grandfather's routine. A family lunch, the washing machine working, the backyard and its rose bushes, and grandfather's traditional cake. The voice of Amanda's mother and father can also be heard in the background.

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)

After Myself

UK | In Post-Production

Experimental Documentary / Short by Pedro Mendes

A personal essay that combines documentary with experimental cinema and explores universal themes such as memory, nostalgia, and grief through archival footage from the director's childhood.

Collective

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.

WORKS

live performance audiovisual territorio de rupturas collective photography work in progress