Marionet enters 2012 with “MAZEZAM” and “SOUND CUT-UP”, two performances presented for the first time in Coimbra.

“MAZEZAM” is created by Catarina Miranda, an artist originally from Coimbra who develops most of her work in Berlin, at the Altes Finanzamt space, which hosted our production “Lab La Bla” last year. The performance is based on an analysis of intermediate states of perception as described in Bardo Thodhol’s work “Liberation Through Hearing During The Intermediate State”. The description of a path for the putrefying body, of its post-mortem displacement, in a repository space of transposition. The scenic space is worked as a repository of objects and states, where, through the inertia of moving bodies and uninterrupted rotation, organic matter, flesh and fluid, is transformed into time. Through the exhaustive repetition of a gesture and its refraction in space, each phenomenon remains in continuous evolution, through a process of rising and falling. The sound composition occupies the stage, resizing the cosmological space and approaching the timbral strategies of concrete music and Japanese Nô theatre.

On the same evening we can also watch the performance “SOUND CUT-UP” conducted by Jonathan Uliel Saldanha, who was already at the Bissaya Barreto Foundation’s Casa das Artes at the end of last summer with HHY & The Macumbas, also at Marionet’s invitation. “SOUND CUT-UP” is inspired by Brian Gyson’s dream machine, made famous by William S. Burroughs.