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TALK TO ME - CONVERSATION #1

Original proposition: Renata Lamenza

concept: Maddy d'oliveira and Renata Lamenza
performance: Barbara T'jonk and Renata Lamenza
Photography/video : Maddy d'oliveira
 

About:
“THAT SUBLIMINAL CRY, 
SHAPED FROM CITIES REMAINS
AND FROM COLLISION OF BODIES. 
SQUEAL OF COLLAPSE. 

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THAT  INFATIOUS SOUND, 
THAT PULSE OF FLESH, 
THAT LOUDEST, THAT TRUE VOICE, 
THAT WIDTH OF HEART, 
THAT RAW RATTLE OF EXISTENCE.”
J. Sacks

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TALK TO ME - CONVERSATION #2 
 

Original proposition: Renata Lamenza

concept/performance: Fernando Codeço and Renata Lamenza

photography/video: Renato Mangolin
Studio : Base Dinâmica, kindly provided by Gui Veloso

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About:
Rio de Janeiro, 06 de março de 2016

It was on a drawing lesson que eu conheci Fernando. It was um dia quente and rainy day in Rio. Few days after carnival, my body was still pulsing in the ritmo dos blocos e we still had purpurina. Na aula, we first warmed up as if I was on a dance class. Me apaixonei. Para Fernando, the act of drawing é movimento, é performance.  Fernando is a visual artist, graphic designer, actor and researcher, e usa a transparência para transpor movimento. On his act of transforming movement into painting, inviting Fernando for the talk to me wasn’t necessary, era óbvio. He already was a part of it. The plastic costume was created dialoguing with Fernando’s works with transparency, and the sculptural pictures were taken and direcionando o olhar do espectador by my favorite dance photographer, Renato Mangolin. Foi um dia intenso, forte , vermelho, potente. Voei de volta diferente.

 

TALK TO ME - CONVERSATION #3 

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Original proposition: Renata Lamenza
concept: Anna Godzina and Renata Lamenza
performance: Renata Lamenza
installation/ photography/ video : Anna Godzina
Original soundtrack: Otavio Santos

 

About:
Anna’s impacting work constantly puts together nature and architecture, “I love to frame landscape”, she says. In her exhibition Retrace, she recreates the movement of a falling tree overlapping it’s raw texture with a mechanical image. I was completely taken over by the atmosphere Anna created, and instantly felt the urge to dialogue with her, her space and her work. I usually feel magnetized by trees, earth and rivers and it is one of the few powerful elements that quiet my mind. It was through silence that my body could speak through Anna’s work and later on, given a sound by the Brazilian musician, my lifetime friend and partner, Otavio Santos, who harmonized space, movement and speech transforming into music. 

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TALK TO ME - CONVERSATION #4

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Original proposition: Renata Lamenza
Concept and performance: Jackie Jassnes and Renata Lamenza

About:
"a witchcraft ritual, powerfull, energetic, intense" 
Alexandre Bado

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TALK TO ME - CONVERSATION #5

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Original proposition: Renata Lamenza
Concept and performance: Renata Lamenza and Vincent Pouydesseau
Lightning  Design : Vincent Pouydesseau
Music: Daniel Castanheira

About:

Mulher bicho casa

bicho móvel
bicho 
Mulher bicho 
Mulher bicho corpo

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TALK TO ME - CONVERSATION #6, women and silence

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Original proposition: Renata Lamenza
Installation, mediator circle of conversations, and solo performance: Renata Lamenza 
Sound installation/creation : Amora Pêra
Article "Take silence away from my way": Gabriela Serfarty
Circula (circulate) conversation+performance, by and with: Ayaan Ali, Anna Godzina, Carly Heartcote, Sandra Cruz, Alice Erlanger, Rosa Schutzendorf, Maddy D'oliveira, Mery Copman, Noemi-Coco Jimenzez , Renata Lamenza and Mashid Mohadjerin.

About:

This occupation/exhibition was created after Marielle Franco, Brazilian black activist council woman, was murdered at Rio de Janeiro, Brasil. The room was occupied by the installation "Let's play YAY", containing 5 interactive objects that attempt to recreate un-recreatable sensations on silencing female bodies; the circle of women called CIRCULA, where 12 women from 12 different countries share stories on their mother tongue of women being silenced in their home town; the solo performance "I shall not be interrupted", created in homage to Marielle Franco, blending parts of her last speech with the women's march in Rio 2017, the poet and musicist Amora Pêra creates the restless sound atmosphere for Renata Lamenza to move towards the liberation of this female body.