A Tela Rasgada
Joclécio Azevedo (PT / BR)
(World Premiere)

Show presented in Portuguese and English

A Tela Rasgada (The Torn Canvas) is the second part of a trilogy that began in 2024 with the play Apesar das Evidências (Despite the Evidences). The work was developed in a dialogue with musician and visual artist Pedro Tudela. The audience is invited to enter a visual and sound device that exists autonomously as an installation, but unfolds choreographically through the actions of two performers. Evoking states of consciousness such as dreams, delirium, or alienation, the space is populated by intricate affective architectures. The performers engage in games of fictional anatomies, obsessive bodily states, and processes that involve the body in the disjunction between image and language. The bodies are emptied of intentions, assuming the role of mediators, projection surfaces, or interfaces between imagination, experience, and thought.

After O Público e a Multidão in 2023, Joclécio Azevedo brings us his new creation, raising questions that intersect with the theme of this year’s fimp, while making it spill over across (time, in terms of its dates and) the disciplinary boundaries established by the programme.