Other artists are involved in the creation process. João Taurino (PT) explores music in this project. He plays with sounds of the human body and sounds of the water, which is a symbol of life itself. He adds echoes and floats with variations of rhythm along the sound of a heart beat to the tracks. The sound proposes an emulation of living fluxes by suggesting a lifetime with a non-chronological path and creates time in cycles through the sounds of the water.
Clarissa Serafim (BR) develops costumes for the performances and contributes sewing dialogues between fashion and art.
The core aims of the performatic part of this project emerges on the concept choreo-graphy, from the original Greek: khoros (chorus). Khoreia (dancing in unison) happens when nature, architecture, ambience, music elaborations and graphic elements appearing on the surface of the paper come together.
The context in which this project started is the disasters that occurred in Portugal during the dry season, (2017) when large forest areas were completely burned, including houses and entire villages. The dantesque landscape which rests after a fire is the scenario where the three artists working in this performance took inspiration. This context stimulates artistic choices reflecting on what can be time under the aegis of nature.
The performance invites the viewer to investigate how we live time in contemporaneity. We should remember that we are not the masters of our own time, in the sense that time one lives suffer a lot from outside influences. Nevertheless, everybody can be aware of the inner (one’s acts and thoughts related to relationships, work, responsibilities, etc.) and outer (nature, ambient, surroundings, pollution, technology, etc.) elements that contribute to big changes on time experience. This way we are more empowered to shape life as we like to live it.
