7 Abiku Solos for 11 Bacteria Falling Through is a performance installation that merges sounds, texts, images and movement in a multidisciplinary attempt to conjure the ghostly traces of the unborn.It is centered on the unique cosmology of the micro-biotic world that brings to foreground interspecies entanglements : ghosts, birds, bacterias…It mingles a personal story; forgotten and erased memories with a sensation encarved in the guts. In this speculative fabulation we bring to foreground the complexity of the colonial modernity ongoing process by dismantling hegemonic systems of knowledge through scientific language and digital technologies.
The fable unveils the mechanism of living while in a state of being sequestered from Life with all its colonial(ist) anti-biotic, anti-zootic impulses and implications, and creating dances with a broader engagement is , nevertheless, moving at the edge of an impossibility.
Concept, Choreography and articulator
Flavia Pinheiro
Producer
Tom Oliver Jacobson
Artistic collaborations
Tom Oliver Jacobson, Leandro Olivan, Rodrigo Batista
Text
Chakirou Salami (Baba Ketu) and Flavia Pinheiro
Costume
Marc Andrade
Wearable sculpture
Daphne Kartens
Performers
Tom Oliver, Mario Lopes and Rodrigo Batista
Software Programmers
Leandro Oliván, Jakob Povel, Willem Veemhoff and Emanuel Nijkerk
Music
Gabriel de Oliveira,Niels Luteijn, DJ Dolores.
Sound Design
Kris Mcdonald & Misha MacLaren
Light Design & Technology
Emanuel Nijkerk and Rembrandt Pieplenbosch
Light operator
Rembrand Pieplenbosch
Video design
Emanuel Nijkerk
Performers
Tom Oliver, Mario Lopes and Rodrigo Batista
Photographer
Thomas Lenden
Support
Erick Lint and ID LAB, Cross Academy Fund, AartJanszen Fonds, AHK Internationalisation Fund, Funcultura Brazil, La Caldera (Barcelona), C.E.M ( Lisboa)
Mentors and tutors
André Lepecki, Ana Lira, Pedro Manoel. Konstantina Georgelou and Jeroen Fabius.
Thanks to
Tom Oliver; my beloved one. Rodrigo Batista and Mario Lopes for the friendship. Adriana Gehres, Paula Montecinos, Mariana Senne, Ana Lira, Annick Kleizen, and Laura Cull for all your support. Thanks to Didier Djelehounde , Marcel Gbffa and Chakirou (Baba Ketu) for making it possible.