WHILE MOVING FORWARD ON TIME
Documentary 2013
This film documentary aim to research on how performance art festivals and programs, in specific communities worldwide, are bringing attention to their local issues and what are the strategies applied to communicate and debate with the international community.
Film by: Márcio Carvalho
Filmed by: Márcio Carvalho and Francesca Romana Ciardi
Edit by: Márcio Carvalho
Márcio Carvalho was born in 1981 in Lagos, Portugal. He is a visual artist and an independent art curator and lives and works in Berlin.
He holds a master degree in performing arts at HZT/UDK Berlin and a master degree in Visual Arts at ESAD in Portugal. He works with installation, photography, video and performance participating in exhibitions and festivals all over Europe, Africa and North America.
He is the founder and curator, together with Dr. Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung and Savvy Contemporary, of the performance art program CO-LAB editions, in Berlin, he is the founder and art director of the artist residence program Hotel25 in Berlin and he initiated "The Powers of Art", the first international TV Show dedicated to showcasing a crossing between performing arts and paranormal activity.
"Memory is not an instrument for exploring the past but its theater" Walter Benjamin
Memory can only be experienced in the present time. Each time we remember we add new data influenced by the present surroundings, its context and landscape. In this sense memory is not a static reservoir of information but an active site in which memories are being crafted while we move forward on time. How to distinguish our own memories from memories we have appropriated from other people? What are the systems by which we embody other people memories and how do we recognize ourselves on them?
Carvalho's practice for the last 3 years have been focused on memory and its influences upon collective groups and individual people. Perception and human behavior, network sciences, appropriation and fiction are some concepts and forms used by the artist to research on autobiographical, collective and cultural memory, and its impact into social, cultural, political and economic contemporary life.
performance:
M5 Differencial - performance art festival - Turmstraße, Berlin, Germany, 2010
Creating a map of actions between several public spaces in Turmstraße, the artist behaved a quotidian that was an exagerated replica of the street daily life. Spaces such as the Church, the Markthalle, street roofs, the 'Galerie Nord' and other spaces in Turmstraße were stages for different actions. One miracle in the church, a moment in heaven and many other actions created a reflex of the rhythm and the behaviours of the street in a format of a dream.
Extension Extra, Berlin, 2012
Here after there #2 presented the space where autobiographical memories and appropriated memories are in relation creating “Impossible Chronologies”. From Angola, to Portugal, Berlin, Cameroon and back to Berlin, several contexts and landscapes were brought together speculating about tradition, continuity and obligation, though a memory lens.
