Antropocenica 3

Portugal and Cape Verde 2024

Roda Viva

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PORTUGAL

————— 24 October 2024 —————

Lisbon

Amphitheatre 1

Faculty of Letters of the University of Lisbon

{ event open to the public }

16:00 - 19:00

Meeting

Roda Viva*

Ruins

Threatened beings; destroyed territories; the Anthropocene as epoch of ruin production

Earth-Theatre

Contemporary geo(necro)politics; wars and neocolonial exploitation; Earth reduced to theatre of capitalist operations

Walls and Crossings

The new nationalisms and the face of fascisms

Resistance and Re-existence

How to resist in order to (re)exist in a world in ruins

Participants

Inocência Mata (São Tomé and Príncipe), Catarina Martins (Portugal), Marinho Pina (Guinea-Bissau),

Filipe Ferreira (Portugal), Camila Mota (Brazil), Cafira Zoé (Brazil), Luanda Francine (Brazil),

Leticia Coura (Brazil), Dirk Michael Hennrich (Germany) and Silvio Luiz Cordeiro (Brazil)

We gathered once again members of Antropocénica, including our guests from Teat(r)o Oficina, who came to strengthen this third journey, in a conversation circle we specially called Roda Viva, poetic citation of artistic creation and critique of the vast system of exploitation: in times of rising new fascisms and the urgent struggle against this wave in tune with multiple forms of capitalist predation, the meeting's title gestures towards two essential names in Brazilian culture and political struggle itself—Chico Buarque, author of the homonymous song and play; and Zé Celso, who directed it in 1968—and recalls a tragic event, in the play's second season that same year, when a violent militia invaded the Sala Galpão at Teatro Ruth Escobar in São Paulo, injuring artists, destroying scenery and equipment, which catapulted a movement in defence of the play, but, above all, amplifying the chorus against censorship, authoritarianism and violence of the regime during those years of lead. Naming this conversation circle with such a gesture also connects to the visual idea itself exposed in the Antropocénica 3 poster, with elements that can be seen as a wheel-gear of power, which turns devouring, machinic propeller with capitalist yearning and patriarchal core, in progressive (neo)colonial exploitation, which intensified the extractivism of Earth and of beings (human and non-human) who co-inhabit this Cosmic Entity, our great collective dwelling in time.

Thus, the people gathered on 24 October 2024, on the stage of Amphitheatre 1 at the Faculty of Letters of the University of Lisbon, gave life to the circle, made it turn, warming it from the suggestion of four initial themes, to flow into free conversation about: Ruins {threatened beings; destroyed territories; the Anthropocene as epoch of ruin production}; Earth-Theatre {contemporary geo(necro)politics; wars and neocolonial exploitation; Earth reduced to theatre of capitalist operations}; Walls and Crossings {the new nationalisms and the face of fascisms}; Resistance and Re-existence {how to resist in order to (re)exist in a world in ruins}, this last theme which, when dissected, expanded and revised by the circle, activated varied reflections that ventured into the others.

The event had the energy of Antropocénica's previous journeys, with poetry and music alongside the plural flow of critical and creative thoughts from the people who entered the circle. The binaural audio recording, available below, captured the spatial dimension of the place, so listen using headphones!

The Antropocénica troupe intertwined with the Transfluências Transatlânticas of the Teat(r)o Oficina team invited to participate in this third encounter of the series, elevating the potency of art as an essential path in the collective construction of knowledge to think about "the scenes of human drama in the theatre of a changing world". Evoé!

Production

Dirk Michael Hennrich

Silvio Luiz Cordeiro

Binaural Recording and Editing

Nômade

Silvio Luiz Cordeiro

Images

Dirk Michael Hennrich

Silvio Luiz Cordeiro