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Vera Mantero
Vera Mantero
The anthropologist Eduardo Viveiros de Castro says that, for the indigenous people of Brazil, “Contradiction makes sense” and this is one of the cornerstones of the thinking of original peoples. The Professor of Ethical Leadership Jonathan Haidt says that his students are enclosed in politically correct bubbles and advises them to travel the world in order to be capable of Contradiction*. The psychoanalyst Carl Jung used to say that language should be ambiguous and have double meanings (contradictory, therefore) because only in this way will it do justice to our psychic nature. The alleged interferences of the social media in recent electoral processes lead us to conclude that the “healthy” media are those that do not present just one point of view, but instead present several views, which are preferably contradictory in nature. Is education for citizenship an Education for Contradiction? Education for Fright.
*Couturier, B. 2018. Safe spaces: des étudiants qui ne supportent plus la contradiction.
25 NOV 2021
THU 21:00
26 NOV 2021
FRI 21:00
27 NOV 2021
SAT 21:00
In Portuguese with English subtitles
Duration 80 min
Performance for Schools
WED 24 NOV 15:00
Co-funded by the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union, following ACT - Art, Climate, Transition project
Part of Alkantara Festival
Temporada Portugal-França 2022
Artistic Direction
Vera Mantero
Co-creation and Interpretation
Henrique Furtado Vieira, Paulo Quedas, Teresa Silva
Lighting
Leticia Skrycky
SOUND CREATION AND INTERPRETATION
João Bento
Set Design and props
João Ferro Martins
Costumes and props
Marisa Escaleira
Assistance
Vera Santos
participation in research
Vânia Rovisco
TEXTS
Henrique Furtado Vieira, Paulo Quedas, Teresa Silva, Vera Mantero
IMAGE
af Klint, Hilma, Group IX/SUW, The Swan, No. 17, 1915, Oil on canvas. Courtesy of Stiftelsen Hilma af Klints Verk. Photo: Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
Assistance
Vera Santos
Production
O Rumo do Fumo
Co-production
Centro Cultural Vila Flor, Fundação Caixa Geral de Depósitos - Culturgest, Teatro Municipal do Porto, Teatro Viriato
Artistic residence Support
Centro de Experimentação Artística/Município da Moita, Companhia Olga Roriz, Estúdios Victor Córdon
ACKNOWLEDGMENT
Elisa Santos, João Sarmento, Parish of St. André and Stª Marinha à Graça
O Rumo do Fumo is funded by the Portuguese Republic – Cultural Department | Directorate General for the Arts and Lisbon Municipal Council
