6. DMV 22 | COLLECTIVE
DMV 22 was a performance and multimedia art collective that I worked extensively between the years of 2013 to 2015, especially focused on creating visuals for the performances of the group that got exhibited around the whole country of Brazil and a good part of Europe. During these years I also developed a special relationship with the director and performer Mario Lopes, which is one of may main art partners until today (see Afrotranstopia). Bellow there’s a selection of works made in collaboration with DMV 22 Collective.
TREPP
Live performance that consist of two performers, a small orchestra and two live VJs. TREPP is a sinfonie of moving images and bodies following the temperature of the musical composition performed live and in open or/and public spaces. It developed out of videos of dancing bodies in the urban space, that served as a guiding line for the composer, whos live performed music defines the movement of the performers. With TREPP the coletivo DMV22 deepens it research of the urban space and shifts the focus of traffic to the movement of the city itself. Within this chart, due to demolition and constant reconstruction, to the flow of the river under the largest avenues of the city and the hollow-walled urban habitat, the daily role of the human being is to occupy and vacate.
Creation: Marina Massoli, Mario Lopes
Performers: Marina Massoli, Mario Lopes
Live Painting: Achiles Luciano
Live Visuals and Projection Mapping: Victor Pardinho
Composition: Yuri Prado, Vitor Caffarro
Ôctôctô Orchestra: Cibele Palopoli– flauta, Luis Santiago – saxofones, Felipe Roque – trompete, Edinaldo Santos – trombone, Yuri Prado – guitarra, Márcio Modesto – piano, Miguel Antar – contrabaixo elétrico, Rubens de Oliveira – bateria.
Presented at:
2014/ Open Air Performance Museum of Contemporary Art of São Paulo
2014/ Open Air Performance Streitfeld Projektraum Munich
2014/ Open Air Performance University of Porto, Porto
2014/ Open Air Performance SESC Sorocaba, São Paulo
2014/ Open Air Performance SESC Santos, São Paulo
2013/ November _ premiered/estreia 2013 SESC Santana, São Paulo
2013/ January _ Work in progress Villa Waldberta Munich
LINIT
A poetic vision on the feelings of a split-up. This video art was recorded and proced during a tour of more than 50 shows of the VRUM and VRUMVRUMZINHO performances by DMV22 Collective. This particular video was recorded during the last performance, after the group as suddenly decided to split up.
Concept, filming, editing, post-production: Victor Pardinho
Performers: Marina Massoli, Mario Lopes, William Freitas
Soundtrack: Thales Posella, Pedro Venetucci + Thiago Miazzo
Presented at:
2015/ Dance in Focus International Festival | Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
VRUM
While not actively participating in the live VRUM performance, I was part of several presentations of the performance as an assistance producer and also making several recordings and documenting the performance during touring times. VRUM is a performance on sound, color and movement in dialogue within the urban space for stages, open and public spaces. A musician, visual artist and dancer developed a multimedia piece based on the instant transformation they experience in São Paulo. The constant body appropriation of urbanity and the consequent physical re-adaptations are reflected in the immediate and spontaneous improvisation. The public is invited to dive into the sensation of the megacity, to escape from it in a suspension and, at the end of the piece, to take part in the experience. Urban aesthetics provoke a transient density of experience, a lot in just a little time. Transformation needs to be instantaneous to ensure survival.
Director and Production: Mario Lopes
Performers: Marina Massoli, Mario Lopes
Live painting: Achiles Luciano
Sound: Gabriel Spinosa
Assistant Production and Documenting: Victor Pardinho
Presented at:
2014/ Caixa Cultural Prize, season VRUM and VRUMVRUMZINHO in 4 capital cities of Brazil: Fortaleza, Recife, Rio de Janeiro e São Paulo.
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