It one of the compelling names in the context of experimental poetry and performing arts in Portugal. It was also a founder of the circle of art in Coimbra, where he lives, but his concern does not fade in the artistic reflection and discussion. He is an author, a creative element of visual language that reflects a new consciousness of narratives. A performer who inhabits the realities of everyday life, transcending its own identity, emerging as works of art.
What do you want to portray in this work?
Antonio Barros: I present two moments of an exhibition held in Coimbra, which is called Obgestos. They are part of a project that I developed in the performing arts and was part of a show in the boiler manor was part of the assets of that work. It is a constellation of objects-of-memory, that is an integral part of different Artitude, scenic formulations of perfomative residence, referring to the' arts of behavior and operatic gestures'. I present the formal and semantic attributes generated on a temporal arc of about thirty years between 1979 and 2010.
Is a state of art were these gestures asserted individually or in programs with group dynamics targeted on a school of actors.
The pieces just take in the show; assume the zeal of amnesic condition. Museum. The posthumous acquired the transitive object that inhabited different performativities. Testimonies are collected in real-time actions and other experienced that mark the purpose of operatic projects, thus articulating the related ,an analysis directed at elected elements here: the objects. These, then reveal themselves as symbolic elements of the multiple gestures experienced in the ceremonial.Those in the equation of performing arts' have emancipated themselves in objects / gestures, earns the condition of identity work. The result obgectos is a constellation of factors contributing to the study of a communication path statement of reason and condition of authorship, artorall.
What inspired you?
AB: They are objects that are collected in the social context where people move, are revisited and crafted to a new understanding and new semantics awareness.
My work is part of a more general context of what we define as the Portuguese experimental poetry that explores objects, others and the word. I explore a text in various media of everyday use, which people have in their situationist condition. In an analysis of the behavior of the citizen in society and examines their various behavioral realities.
This analysis is done from the point of view or the other is just a personal interpretation of these elements?
AB: One author is an element that creates new situations; we found transfigurations to communicate with each other and to develop new awareness. There is an activity taken in from the other, but a communication with the individual. My work does not end with this territory for exploration. There are other areas.
What are these areas?
AB: My creative and artistic activities are strictly differentiated territories. In the context of artistic activity develop living spaces, scenic and commitment, where those who dwell in that context explores new consciousness narratives. These spaces, which are in some circumstances experienced by the inhabitants in the field of theater, dance and performing arts. I also work the arts of sculpture and installation behavior. The object as engaging and as a place of relationship and experience. Creative work in the field of communication design.
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