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EXHIBITION PROJECT
Performace
PERFORMANCE
LA PASTI CIUDAD DEL CUERPO (2023)
durational performance
In "La Plasti Ciudad del Cuerpo" the artist Amanda Gatti activates one of the external spaces of the Antonio Pérez Foundation (Spain) with the idea of "dressing the city", in a notion of inhabiting this place as an installation. By incorporating objects/materials collected from the streets into the body, a functional displacement of these objects is produced, which, sometimes added together, establishes an excess, a visual accumulation characteristic of the urban environment. It is about exploring the possibilities of using these leftovers (those that we discard and depreciate), producing and evoking architectural figures.
NOS.OTROS WORK (2023)
performance-installation
Father and daughter live a continent away from each other. Amanda is a performance artist and currently lives in Spain. Mauro is a civil engineer and has lived in Brazil all his life. Since she left Brazil, more than 3 years ago, Amanda has been talking to her father through spontaneous video calls, but there's a catch: he is always working. Mauro works from Monday to Monday. However, work and different time zones don't prevent them from talking - in a way, that's the way they maintain their bond.
CARNE VIVA / LIVE FLESH (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? (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 (2016)
performance-installation
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.
RADIO-ACTIVITY (2015)
movement 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 specific performance happened a nightclub (Bar Ocidente) and a gallery (Acervo Independente) in the South of Brazil.
SPRING WITH ME (Since 2013)
participatory performance
Amanda completes another year of life on May 22nd. Instead of celebrating her birthday properly, she creates an open celebration with the best excuse of just occupying a public space in the city.
Audiovisual
VIDEO
LADDER, DUCT TAPE, CLOTHES (2023)
video performance
A performance that explores an idea of "body sculpture" featuring two female performers embedded in objects or objects embedded in their body, improvising with conventional notions of form and function.
VANILLA UNDERGROUND (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.
YELLOW CAGE (2020)
experimental cinema
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.
CINE-VIAJE (2017)
film essay
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 (2015)
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.
Photography
PHOTOGRAPHY
ESCADA
ongoing photo series
An architecture in transformation. Or part of an architecture in transformation. An elevator will be installed in the building where the artist lives in Madrid. Amanda has been registering the process of what this place can and will become. She takes a picture a day.Will it change anything in her routine? Will she insist on going downstairs? Will the building be the same?The project started on June 4, 2023
HEAVINESS
photo series
Crushed stone and body in framesworks
COLLABORATIONS
AFTER MYSELF (2023)
film essay
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.
MY BODY IS NOT YOUR COUNTRY (2023)
solo performance
A solo performance by Marta Bonito that echoes stories of different women in a reflection about how migration influences our lives. It is about identity, borders, displacement and the female body, where poetic landscapes meet autobiographical experience, featuring an all-female creative team.
TRANSVERSAL DERIVE (2021)
video art
In search of new territorialities, poetically disobeying spatial logic, three artists, even if physically separated, found themselves in a digital space and travel through a path from Fortaleza/Brazil (from the Centro Cultural Dragão do Mar to the statue of Iracema Guardiã) transposed to their own cities (Porto Alegre/BR, Farroupilha/BR and London/UK) without knowing exactly which street they will pass by, for how long they will walk or what will be the point of arrival equivalent to the “Iracema Guardiã” statue, offering themselves to the unpredictable.
Collabs
BORDERS - TERRITORY OF RUPTURES (2020)
video art
The video art was collectively and remotely created, using digital platforms by the two Brazilian artists Amanda Gatti and Gustiele Fistaról. They proposed to demystify the term "border", seeking through the performance, to expand the understanding of the term, which carries in the first moment, a slight association with the historical records of territorial wars and geographic limits.To this end, the artists started from the collection of audios in which people answered "What is border for you?" and also the physical image - moving body, body parts - considering the body as the main border.
BORDERS IN MOVEMENT (2020)
video art
The video art started from the premise that "borders are not fixed, they move". The artists drifted guided by devices - which determined specific movements such as change of direction, speed and duration of the action, previously established by them: Amanda on the streets of London and Gustiele on the streets of Farroupilha (Brazil), connected through a video call.
ANDORRA (2018)
site-specific performance
What does "Andorra" mean? “Andorra” is a concept, in fact, the essence of a concept, if you know what that means”, says the doctor in the homonymous play by Swiss writer Max Frisch. Literary critic Joachim Kaiser wrote "Andorra is the name of a model: it presents the process of a change in consciousness". The first action that started the project to occupy the wall of the Goethe-Institut with the objective of promoting art in the public space was subject to strong negative criticism and censorship, but it also had the support of important institutions and people working in the artistic scene and defenders of freedom of speech.
NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD REDUX (2018)
stage & tech performance
A collaboration with Imitating The Dog (UK). The performance was part of Porto Alegre Em Cena Festival (2018, Brazil).
UNDRESSING THE PREJUDICE (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.
INANIMATE HEAD (2016)
photo performance
In collaboration with Gustavo Razzera
OS QUINTAIS DE PORTO ALEGRE (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.
CEGOS (2014)
urban performance
A collaboration with Desvio Coletivo (BR). The performance was part of the Festival Palco Giratório SESC.
THE INAUGURATION (2013)
site-specific performance
The Inauguration was the result of the research entitled “Poetics and politics in the Contemporary Street Theatre Scene” by Evelise Mendes in the Postgraduate Program in Performing Arts (PPGAC / UFRGS - BR). The performance is an inauguration ceremony of a false monument in the city of Porto Alegre, organized by a false political party. Each performer represents, speaking, a figure of a political party, inspired by Brazilian political representatives.
PADOX DANS LA CITÉ (2013)
urban performance
A collaboration with Compagnie Houdart Heuclin (France). The performance was part of Festival Internacional de Teatro de Rua de Porto Alegre (2013, Brazil)
ISLAND OF LOVES (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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