Museum of Enchantment 2014

Museum of Enchantment is a performance and visual arts project  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 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 Pál Pelbart. 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 performer, Marta Mestre provided research support 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 artists were part of the project: André Lepecki, Bruno Rezende & Claudinho Dias, Fábio Zuker, 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 André E. Teodósio, Ana Gandum, Ana Borralho& João Galante, Gonçalo Tocha, Miguel Pereira e Rita Brás.

This project received an award granted by the 10th edition Funarte Redes Artes Visuais Prize and premiered in October of 2014 at the Museu de Arte Moderna of Rio de Janeiro. In June of 2015, it was invited for 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. It was presented at CAIXA São Paulo in December of 2015.

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⌂ TECHNICAL INFO

Initial concept and artistic direction: Rita Natálio
Artistic codirection: Joana Levi

Design and construction of installation: Eduardo Verderame
Performers: Joana Levi, Rita Natálio e teresa Silva
Direction assistance and video editing: Olivia Niculitcheff
Research support: Marta Mestre

Enchantment donors: Bruno Rezende & Claudinho Fias, Fábio Zuker, Icaro Ferraz Vidal Junior,
João Penoni, Júlia de Carvalho Hansen, Gustavo Ciríaco, Laura Erber, Letícia Novaes, Marcela Levi, Paulo Bruscky, Peter Pál Pelbart e Suely RolniK
André E. Teodósio, Ana Gandum, Ana Borralho & João Galante, Miguel Pereira e Rita Brás
Executive production: Oiya Projetos culturais, Corpo Rastreado
Co-production: Supercenas Produções
Internationalization sponsoring: Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian
Public Relations: Decio Hernandez di Giorgi
Design: Paula Delecave
Design Assistant: Camila Wingerter
Translation: Julia debasse
Seamstress: Gabriela S.Cherubini
Network partnerships: casa do Povo, casa da tomada, Espaço Bicho, Espaço Fonte, Grupo de teatro Facetas, Ponto de cultura tecesol, p. Arte, Bicicletaria cultural, Espaço cultural Sítio canto do Sabiá.
Special acknowledgments: All of those who were part of the shootings in Alter do Chão and Recife.
To Kandyê Medina and Cristiana tejo who organized and so lovingly welcomed us during the residencies.

2016


30.01—28.02
Museum of Enchantment – Performances
Joana Levi, Teresa Silva, Rita Natálio
Caixa Cultural São Paulo

2015


12.12—28.02
Museum of Enchantment – Exhibition
Rita Natálio
Caixa Cultural São Paulo

2014


27.09—26.10
Museum of Enchanment – exhibition
Rita Natálio
Museu Arte Moderna - Rio de Janeiro
27.09—04.10
Museum of Enchanment – performances
Joana Levi, Teresa Silva, Rita Natálio
Museu Arte Moderna - Rio de Janeiro