CARBO
PT
O cheiro a torrada queimada. Lá fora o fumo. E esta noite não preguei o olho, dormi talvez uma hora. Vestido. Um objecto nos pés do divã obrigou a que o meu corpo estanque ficasse meio amarrotado, e deixei de sentir as pernas. Um tronco carbonizado. E a minha marioneta? Nunca pensei que ela desaparecesse antes e diante de mim. Carbo é um espectáculo de teatro físico, visual e de objectos. Uma balada sobre a morte de uma marioneta, na paisagem de carbono que nos compõe.
Autoria, encenação, som e performance: Bruno Humberto
Documentação video e fotografia : Nuno Barroso
Estreada no Museu da Marioneta, Lisboa 3 e 4 de Nov. 2017.
ENG
The smell of burnt toast. Outside the smoke. And tonight I did not managed to close the eyes, I slept for perhaps an hour. Fully dressed. There was an object in one end of the bed, that forced my sealed body to become crumpled, and I stopped feeling my legs. A charred trunk. And my puppet? I never thought it would disappear before and before me. Carbo is a show of physical, visual and object theater. A ballad about the death of a puppet, in the landscape of carbon that composes us.
Idea, direction, sound and performance: Bruno Humberto
Video and Photography: Nuno Barroso
Premiered at Museu da Marioneta, Lisbon 3rd and 4th Nov. 2017.
O cheiro a torrada queimada. Lá fora o fumo. E esta noite não preguei o olho, dormi talvez uma hora. Vestido. Um objecto nos pés do divã obrigou a que o meu corpo estanque ficasse meio amarrotado, e deixei de sentir as pernas. Um tronco carbonizado. E a minha marioneta? Nunca pensei que ela desaparecesse antes e diante de mim. Carbo é um espectáculo de teatro físico, visual e de objectos. Uma balada sobre a morte de uma marioneta, na paisagem de carbono que nos compõe.
Autoria, encenação, som e performance: Bruno Humberto
Documentação video e fotografia : Nuno Barroso
Estreada no Museu da Marioneta, Lisboa 3 e 4 de Nov. 2017.
ENG
The smell of burnt toast. Outside the smoke. And tonight I did not managed to close the eyes, I slept for perhaps an hour. Fully dressed. There was an object in one end of the bed, that forced my sealed body to become crumpled, and I stopped feeling my legs. A charred trunk. And my puppet? I never thought it would disappear before and before me. Carbo is a show of physical, visual and object theater. A ballad about the death of a puppet, in the landscape of carbon that composes us.
Idea, direction, sound and performance: Bruno Humberto
Video and Photography: Nuno Barroso
Premiered at Museu da Marioneta, Lisbon 3rd and 4th Nov. 2017.
CARBO from Nuno Barroso on Vimeo.
the death of the audience
A MORTE DA AUDIÊNCIA
PT
Uma performance acerca da natureza do espectador – as expectativas, relações, tensões e papéis que cada um assume, individualmente ou em grupo numa situação de espectáculo ou terror cénico. Através da dança, video, teatro-físico, performance e som, apresenta-se um ensaio absurdo acerca do espectador, da sua responsabilidade, acção e passividade em massa. Uma série de situações para um público em movimento, onde são desconstruidas coreografias de distâncias e poder inerentes em qualquer tipo de ritual ou espectáculo.
Autoria, som, coreografia e performance: Bruno Humberto
ENG
A performance about the nature of spectatorship - the expectations, relationships, tensions and roles that each individual or group takes on a spectacle situation. Through the languages of dance, video, physical theatre, poetry and sound, this performance presents an absurd essay about the spectator, and his responsibility, action and passivity in a mass scale. A series of actions for an audience in movement, where the choreographies made of distances and power, inherent in any type of ritual or show, are deconstructed.
Text, music, choreography and performance by: Bruno Humberto
Work in progress versions of The Death of the Audience were presented at:
Tripspace, London: 18th July 2014
The Place, London: 17th October 2014
Atelier Re.al, Lisbon: 17th/18th December 2014
Final versions of this performance were presented at:
Festival Cumplicidades, Lisboa, 18th, 19th March 2016.
Festival FETEAG, Brazil, Caruaru 8th Oct., Recife 9th Oct. 2016.
Festival DDD, Dias da Dança, Porto, Malavoadora, 6th and 7th May, 2017.
Festival Citemor, Garagem Auto Peninsular, Figueira da Foz, 21h30, 8th Dec. 2017.
Teatro Municipal Baltazar Dias, Funchal, 1th March 2018.
48h performance duracional e instalação
THE DEATH OF THE TANGIBLE MAN or "How to avoid being eaten alive by the bloodiest insects of our time"
PT
48h - Performance/Instalação duracional
Inicio: 19h Quinta / 26th Nov. 2015
Fim: 19h Sábado /28th Nov. 2015
O processo aberto de fazer um não-espectáculo por vias da insónia e da escrita circular. Em “The death of the tangible man” o público tem a oportunidade de presenciar, em várias fases, os elementos que compõem uma morte cénica em progresso – texto, som, coreografia e presença – separados, unidos, em contenção ou delírio físico. Um trabalho que surge da residência “We only want the Intangible” efectuada em Outubro de 2015 no ECMA (Ex Cinema Mele Aperto), e associada à publicação de textos na Wrong Wrong #3, onde se aborda a poética do espaço vazio, a desconstrução do formato-sistema espectáculo e as relações que daí provêm.
Nota: Nas horas de fecho da galeria, o processo pode ser assistido via um link de webstreaming, a ser disponibilizado no mesmo dia na página facebook da Zaratan.
ENG
48h - durational Performance/Installation
Starts: 19h Thurs./26th Nov. 2015
Ends: 19h Sat./28th Nov. 2015
The open process of making a no-show through insomnia and circular writing.
In "The death of the tangible man" the public has the opportunity to see, in several phases, the elements that compose a scenic death in progress - text, sound, choreography and presence – which are separated, united, restraint or in a physical delirium.
This artwork, that stems from the residency programme "We only want the Intangible", carried out in October at the ECMA (Ex Mele Cinema Aperto) in Italy, is related to the texts written by Bruno Humberto himself for the Wrong Wrong magazine # 3, which address the poetics of the empty space, the deconstruction of the format of the spectacle and the relationships that come from there.
Note: During the gallery closing hours, the process can be watched via a webstreaming link, that will be available on the same day through the facebook page of Zaratan.
48h - Performance/Instalação duracional
Inicio: 19h Quinta / 26th Nov. 2015
Fim: 19h Sábado /28th Nov. 2015
O processo aberto de fazer um não-espectáculo por vias da insónia e da escrita circular. Em “The death of the tangible man” o público tem a oportunidade de presenciar, em várias fases, os elementos que compõem uma morte cénica em progresso – texto, som, coreografia e presença – separados, unidos, em contenção ou delírio físico. Um trabalho que surge da residência “We only want the Intangible” efectuada em Outubro de 2015 no ECMA (Ex Cinema Mele Aperto), e associada à publicação de textos na Wrong Wrong #3, onde se aborda a poética do espaço vazio, a desconstrução do formato-sistema espectáculo e as relações que daí provêm.
Nota: Nas horas de fecho da galeria, o processo pode ser assistido via um link de webstreaming, a ser disponibilizado no mesmo dia na página facebook da Zaratan.
ENG
48h - durational Performance/Installation
Starts: 19h Thurs./26th Nov. 2015
Ends: 19h Sat./28th Nov. 2015
The open process of making a no-show through insomnia and circular writing.
In "The death of the tangible man" the public has the opportunity to see, in several phases, the elements that compose a scenic death in progress - text, sound, choreography and presence – which are separated, united, restraint or in a physical delirium.
This artwork, that stems from the residency programme "We only want the Intangible", carried out in October at the ECMA (Ex Mele Cinema Aperto) in Italy, is related to the texts written by Bruno Humberto himself for the Wrong Wrong magazine # 3, which address the poetics of the empty space, the deconstruction of the format of the spectacle and the relationships that come from there.
Note: During the gallery closing hours, the process can be watched via a webstreaming link, that will be available on the same day through the facebook page of Zaratan.
for a circular audience
HOLDING NOTHING
para um público em forma de círculo
PT
Holding Nothing é um poema circular, escrito na escuridão. Trata-se de uma performance de som, teatro físico e uma instalação onde adensam-se vozes dentro, em redor e no centro de um público. Acontece em grande parte no escuro, para um público sentado em círculo, e exploram-se conceitos de "nada" na filosofia ocidental, misticismo oriental, na Física e em poesia, tudo condensado na ausência entre o performer e o espectador.
ENG
Holding Nothing is a broken circular poem, written in the darkness. This is a sound and theatre performance made of layering of voices/actions inside, around and in the centre of an audience. Happening partly in the dark, for an audience sat in an circle, this solo of Bruno Humberto explores nothingness in Western philosophy, Eastern mysticism, Physics and Poetry, all condensed in the absence that lies in between.
Versions of this performance were presented at:
Yinka Shonibare's Space/Guests Project, Physical Center, London, January 2011
Nightingale Theatre, Brighton, January 2011
ICA (Institute of Contemporary Arts), London February 2011
Gift, Gateshead International Festival of Theatre, May 2011
Holding Nothing é um poema circular, escrito na escuridão. Trata-se de uma performance de som, teatro físico e uma instalação onde adensam-se vozes dentro, em redor e no centro de um público. Acontece em grande parte no escuro, para um público sentado em círculo, e exploram-se conceitos de "nada" na filosofia ocidental, misticismo oriental, na Física e em poesia, tudo condensado na ausência entre o performer e o espectador.
ENG
Holding Nothing is a broken circular poem, written in the darkness. This is a sound and theatre performance made of layering of voices/actions inside, around and in the centre of an audience. Happening partly in the dark, for an audience sat in an circle, this solo of Bruno Humberto explores nothingness in Western philosophy, Eastern mysticism, Physics and Poetry, all condensed in the absence that lies in between.
Versions of this performance were presented at:
Yinka Shonibare's Space/Guests Project, Physical Center, London, January 2011
Nightingale Theatre, Brighton, January 2011
ICA (Institute of Contemporary Arts), London February 2011
Gift, Gateshead International Festival of Theatre, May 2011
on waiting
performance and live sound piece
A series of choreographic photographs and sound actions on the theme of waiting. In this work, Humberto researches states of suspension and the subtle movements that take place in between the actions of staying and leaving. Blending experimental music, performance, poetry and story-telling and following the lines of the recent solo, Holding Nothing, this is a new audience immersive piece of work that digs into the different notions of waiting, inspired by absurdist literature and by those things that are rewritten every day.
dimmemory
A one-to-one performance inspired by a short story by Jorge Luis Borges “Funes the Memorious”
Dimmemory is about shining or dimming light upon memory. In this performance, a man wanders through his archive of remembrance and forgetfulness, almost without moving. His personal archive unfolds in the pitch black of an enclosed space, an extended landscape made with a repeated single object: a blank a4 paper box. The audience is invited to a one-to-one encounter in a darkened room to question the relationship between memory and forgiveness.
Versions of this performance were presented at:
7 Actos of Domestic Violence, Council Estate Building , Bow, London, November 2010
Bacon St. Project, London, November 2009
Goldsmiths, London, December 2008
Dimmemory is about shining or dimming light upon memory. In this performance, a man wanders through his archive of remembrance and forgetfulness, almost without moving. His personal archive unfolds in the pitch black of an enclosed space, an extended landscape made with a repeated single object: a blank a4 paper box. The audience is invited to a one-to-one encounter in a darkened room to question the relationship between memory and forgiveness.
Versions of this performance were presented at:
7 Actos of Domestic Violence, Council Estate Building , Bow, London, November 2010
Bacon St. Project, London, November 2009
Goldsmiths, London, December 2008
