Parties and performances
Porto Femme is also marked by moments of fun and gathering. With performances and sounds of women, this year we have three performances, a concert, and two parties with Dj Set always with women in charge!
PERFORMANCES
“The ground is drowning so we are floating”
Date: April 12th at 18h00
Venue: Maus Hábitos - Inauguração da Exposição “Reflexos Plano A” |
'the ground is drowning so we are floating' (2023) is an audiovisual/ AV live-act performance that calls for the exploration of the literal and abstract concept of portals.
Between earth and sky, sea and clouds; it proposes the creation of a meditative space that invites the audience to float to reflecting portals, embracing the intersection between exterior and interior and the different perceptions that travel from them.
From the real to the imaginary, 'the ground is drowning so we are floating' explores reflection as visual perception and one's sonic awareness through active inner listening from outer space.
Biography
1996, Porto.
Her artistic practice focuses on the production of digital audiovisual works, unfolding between the fields of installation, performance and visual and sound art.
Her work focuses on different aesthetic concerns and possibilities, exploring issues that address the dichotomies and paradoxes of reality and the imaginary, the exact and the abstract. Another important element that resides in her works is their metaphysical character, from which she reflects on the distortion of the perception of objects and sensations between the real (tactile) and mental world. These characteristics highlight the diversity of a work that seeks to be immersive and plural, opening space for dialogues and human and natural interaction. Nature emerges as one of the main objects of study and empirical analysis, articulated with the thought and modus vivendi of the Anthropocene era. From these elements, her artistic creation seeks to promote and expand an ecological and environmental awareness, while exploring the symbiotic relationships between human beings, nature and technology at the same time.
LIVE
OVER-view
Date: April 14th at 18h00
Venue
Mira Performing Arts - Opening of "Reflections Side B" Exhibition
Artist: Dally Schwarz
An experiment resulting from an interest in the universe of selfies, cam-performances and new voyeurisms. After a season of floods of live streams, the performer investigated for about a year to share, in her network, images of studio moments considered off-scene. A proposal to open windows and multiply the image, while dancing and creating a live video edition. A performance to be seen by mobile phone and projected screens.
Biography
Dally is a multidisciplinary artist interested in the relationships between visual arts, dance and communication. She was born in Niterói in 1987. Director of the Platform and Association Zona Limítrofe conducts performances, laboratories in partnership with the artist Marcos Aganju since 2014. Works as a creator, performer and art educator since 2011. In Lisbon she was awarded by Inet-MD to create Pop-up!(2019), by Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation to create Ya,Walk!Talk! (2020), by DGartes and GDA to create CatPowa! (2022). She has been collaborating with c.e.m - centre in movement since 2018, where she evokes the body and movement practices entitled Encorpadas.
"I SEA LAND - despertar: Olho, Mão, Mar"
Date: April 14th at 18h00
Venue: Mira Performing Arts - Opening of "Reflections Side B" ExhibitionArtist: Manuela São Simão
Performance and installation synopsis:
Eye, Sea, Hand
In the palm of my Land
Lend me your see (?)
Biography
Manuela São Simão was born in São Paulo (Brazil) in 1980. She studied Fine Arts at the Faculty of Fine Arts of Porto and at the National Academy of Art in Sofia (Bulgaria). Brazilian and Portuguese multidisciplinary artist, she presents her work publicly since 2003, in different areas ranging from painting, drawing, collage, installation, performance, public art and collaborative projects of radio art/intermediate art. Her work intersects art and life in a process that is also a process of self-knowledge, and that has always reflected on the relationship between limit(s) and the infinite. She creates abstract form-beings that are also mental maps, dialogues between metaphors of the natural/artificial and poetry, expressing a "mix of emotions", perceptions, human relations, tensions, past and future memories, ancestry, that accompany experiences and moments of (her) life and her holistic and Hopeful proposal/viewpoint of the World.
On 21 and 22 April the nights end at the Torto bar with the Femmes parties.
On April 21st we have the presence of Dj Mary Jou. Between multimedia, design and bookings, Mary Jou brings part of her musical selection floating between electro, synth wave, experimental and ambient to Porto Femme 2023.
On April 22nd DJ Phephz will be in charge of the sound. Our DJ's main style is open format, among many brazilian, electronic, ethno beats, disco, soul&funk music, which guide the crowd through a creative, remixed and carefully curated musical journey.
DJ Mary Jou
Date: 21st April | 23h15-03h00
Venue: Bar Torto
Between multimedia, design and bookings, Mary Jou brings her music selection fluctuations of electro, synth wave, experimental, ambient and its variants for Porto Femme 2023.
DJ Phephz
Date: 22md April |23h15-03h00
Venue: Bar Torto
DJ Phephz is music. A 17 years long career branded by an original take on a wide range of styles, rhythms and beats depicts her work as well as her unique personality.
Originally from Bahia, Brazil, based in Portugal, this artist flows between Brazilian sounds, world music, ethno beats, disco, among organic and electronic elements, exploring real open format deejaying style that guides the crowd through a music journey where creativity is key.
