Workshop with AVUÁ COLLECTIVE
Investigations on memory: a practice between visual and performing arts
In collaboration with TeaterKUNST and performer Layla Mollerup we are proud to present this interdisciplinary workshop from the Sao Paulo based company Coletivo Avuá.
AVUÁ COLLECTIVE is a Brazilian/ Sao Paulo company created by visual artist Ana Clara Muner and actor, lighting designer and producer Lucas Pradino, that investigate the intersection between the languages of performing and visual arts and in thinking about a platform collaboration between their productions.
Coletivo Avuá is here to develop the performance DRINK Me at Aveny T.
About the workshop
The workshop “Investigations on memory: a practice between visual and performing arts” seeks to share the creative process of Coletivo Avuá, based on proposals and revisitations of personal and collective memory through old photographs for the composition of artistic materials, including scenic and visuals.
The starting point is to try various techniques that make participants work on the different layers of memory. In this sense, we start from the principle of living memory, cyclical regarding the past, present and future. It is understood that we can activate the reminiscences that inhabit corporeality and discourses based on triggers investigated throughout the workshop. How does the artistic field open up the possibility for us to revisit and reimagine those representations of the past? To what extent can we investigate a photograph to the point of understanding its complexities?
At the beginning, a theoretical and methodological scope is presented on the construction of image archives and their relationship with our personal, collective, subjective and unconscious memories. From this introduction, participants will bring an image to work on throughout the meetings and will begin to develop the textual field to provoke the first senses of remembrance of that moment portrayed. From this writing practice, the collage technique will be presented, in which participants will be able to work on a second layer of memory, revisiting and deconstructing that image archive.
This investigation will be reverberated to the scene, where small scenic cells will be formed, bringing visual research to the body. This, as an artistic composition tool in itself, carries a unique collection, encouraging each participant to investigate their potential. Finally, the installation of the
collages will be worked on, their relationship with body practices and the crossings that will arise from the occupation of this new space.
Program
Day 01 (5h)
Theoretical introduction on the construction and analysis of narratives from photographic archives within the field of memory. This part incorporates references from artists who work with archive images within their poetics, with the aim of enriching the participants’ repertoire. Textual construction based on the photographs brought by the participants.
Day 02 (5h)
Initiation in the collage technique and practical investigations of corporealities.
Day 03 (5h)
Work on the composition of each participant, bringing the intersection of visual and scenic production. Think about occupying a scenic space through the installation of collage and body practices. Presentation of the final result.
AVUÁ COLLECTIVE is a Brazilian/ Sao Paulo company created by visual artist Ana Clara Muner and actor, lighting designer and producer Lucas Pradino, that investigate the intersection between the languages of performing and visual arts and in thinking about a platform collaboration between their productions.
Currently the main premise of Coletivo Avuá ´s creations is to discuss socio-political themes that they consider urgent, such as gender violence, class and environmentalism, in addition investigating the relationship with public and private spaces in order to give them new meaning, seeing them as catalysts for their artistic processes.
ANA CLARA MUNER is a visual artist, using mainly photomechanical processes and photography as a language. Her works seek to question history considered official, bringing a gender perspective and the crossings of memory as a construction of her poetics.
She has a master’s degree in Languages, media and art from PUC-Campinas and a postgraduate degree in Photography from the Raffles Milano Institute in Milan (IT).
Member and founder of Coletivo Avuá and permanent resident at the Canteiro studio — Contemporary Art Production Field.
In 2024, she held the solo exhibition “Memories (re)veiled” at the Gallery of the Faculty of Visual Arts at Puc.
In 2023, she participated in the exhibition “Reminiscências” at the Goethe Institute, “Chão Comum” at Canteiro, “How long do we have?” at the Virginia Building, and “New Photography 10 years” at Paço das Artes.
In 2020, it was awarded by Proac visual arts exhibitions with the virtual exhibition “Estrutura Bruta”.
In 2019, she won the New Photography Award from the Museum of Image and Sound of São Paulo, where she held the solo exhibition “Origami”.
In 2018, she participated in the group exhibition “Immagini in comune” at the Photolux International Photography Biennial in Luca (IT) and “Giovani Sguardi” on Via Dante in the center of Milan.
LUCAS PRADINO is an actor, lighting designer, art educator and producer, graduated from the professional training course CEFAR - artistic
training center (MG), founder and member of Coletivo Avuá.
He performed in the shows “Uma Unidad Astronômica”, directed by UltraVioleta_s, ‘RISO’, Para Todos os Presents and RIR (as a stand-in artist) directed by Key and Zetta e Cia, “Onde Mora Sebastião” and “Pode Happen”, directed by Coletivo Avuá, “OIÉ!”, by Odilon Esteves, “Parada do Trem”, by Geraldo Octaviano, “Play-me”, by Rodrigo Campos and in the children’s show “O Carnaval dos Animais”, by Artmanhas do Som. As an illuminator, he created and operated lights for shows such as “Experimento Cênio - Danças para Takao”, by Key and Zetta e Cia, “Subterrânea”, by Lenine Martins, “O Clube”, by Nando Motta, Jaz, by Joana Doria, “Gavião de Duas Cabeças ”, by Juliana Pautila, “Risco”, by Luiza Bahia and Ricardo Alves Junior, Video installation “Ponto de Fuga”, by Fábrica de Cultura directed by Luiza Romão, Fernanda Machado and Sofia Boito. He was an artist facilitator for young adults asylum seeker for Mit Bosted in Gentofte and an artist facilitator for young locals in Kokkedal working with AR video mapping for the danish based company TeaterKUNST.
