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From the 8th of September to the 24th of November, Manifesta 15 Barcelona Metropolitana presented a comprehensive programme featuring installations, archives and performances by the participants of the edition.
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Olho da Rua [Out Loud]
- TypeInstallation
- ParticipantJonathas de Andrade
- VenueVapor Buxeda Vell
![Olho da Rua [Out Loud], 2022 © Jonathas de Andrade. Photo © Manifesta 15 Barcelona Metropolitana : Cecília Coca.jpg](/media/m15-bucket.ams3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/xlarge_Olho_da_Rua_Out_Loud_2022_Jonathas_de_Andrade_Photo_Manifesta_15_Barcelona_Metropolitana_Cecilia_Coca_14952e25a2.jpg)
Olho da Rua [Out Loud], 2022 © Jonathas de Andrade. Photo © Manifesta 15 Barcelona Metropolitana /Cecília Coca
Brazil was one of the countries worst affected by Covid-19. The country had one of the highest death tolls in the world and a staggering number of Brazilians found themselves in extremely vulnerable situations. It was precisely at this moment that the Brazilian artist Jonathas de Andrade felt a call to serve those facing hardship and amplify their agency and autonomy. With the support of social workers and non-governmental organisations, he brought 100 non-professional, unhoused actors and actresses together for an unconventional performance. De Andrade did not want to write a script, as he felt this was not his story to tell, so he adopted the Brazilian theatre practitioner Augusto Boal’s methodology of the Theatre of the Oppressed, whereby actors play themselves in scenes that shift between fiction and reality. The artist prompted the cast to imagine a day in which their food and shelter is secured, there is no police to harass them and a party is set to take place on the street. The result is a celebratory manifestation in Recife’s public square – an explosion of life, energy, resistance and love, and a testimony to Brazil’s rich multiculturalism and structural inequalities.
2022
HD video, colour, sound, 25’00”
Courtesy of the artist, Galleria Continua and Nara Roesler Gallery
Commissioned and produced by Fondazione In Between Art Film
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