Mittwoch, 23. Oktober 2024, 17 Uhr
VortragAula der Akademie
Carolina Mendonça has a Master in Choreography and Performance at Giessen University in Germany and Graduated in Performing Arts at ECA-USP in Brazil. Her latest projects are Zones of Resplendence (2023) that speculates around feminist perspectives on violence showed at Beursschouwburg; Open Studios at Kaaistudios and part of the festival It takes a city; Sirens (2021) an attempt to listen to the sirens chant as a collective practice showed at Belluard; Pulp-History as a Warm Wet Place (2018) in Mousonturm that deals with an intuitive archeology digesting the leftovers of the XVII-XVIII centuries; useless land (2018) where together with Catalina Insignares they invite de audience to sleep while they read through the night, that happened in many different contexts such as Maerzmusik in Berlin, Ferme de Buisson in Paris, Beursschouwburg in Brussels and Sesta in Prague among others.
Carolina was also one of the curators of NIDO (2022) together with Suely Rolnik and Victoria Perez Royo; of the Performing Arts Festival VERBO (2017) at Galeria Vermelho and Temporada de Dança (2017) at Videobrasil both in São Paulo. She develops a practical theoretical research that she shares in workshops that deal with telepathy, levitation, deep listening among other practices and that was done in institutions such as Exerce in Montpellier (Fr), Tabakalera in Donostia (Esp), NIDO in Rivera (Uru), HfmdK in Frankfurt (Ger), Teerã National Theater in Teheran (Iran) among others. Carolina builds her work always in collaboration with other artists such as Catalina Insignares, Marcelo Evelin, Marcela Santander, Dudu Quintanilha, Carolina Bianchi among others.