What’s the smallest thing you’ve ever seen? Everything in our world has an exact size and many different scales we can easily imagine. To understand the world at nanoscale we can compare a football with planet Earth or a marble with Einstein’s head.
We all understand that the distance transforms what we see. We can see a dot in the sky during all our lives, but only when we get closer to it we can be sure of it being a planet. The same dot in a map can be a whole city, but from an airplane’s window each dot down there is a person, a house or a plane. A 100 nanometre dot on the tip of a finger, on the other hand, is simply invisible to our eyes.
“NANO T” is the record of our approach to the world of the infinitely small. In Marionet’s research path on the possible interactions between art, science and technology, we can say it’s nanotechnology analyzed by the imagination. What if the tiniest thing we can see is still too large for us?
Discussion and Ideas Alexandre Lemos, Filipe Eusébio, Joana Cardoso, Lígia Anjos, Lucília Raimundo, Mário Gutiérrez Cru, Mário Montenegro, Nádia Nogueira, Pedro Augusto (aka Ghuna X)
Direction Alexandre Lemos
Cast Filipe Eusébio, Lucília Raimundo, Nádia Nogueira
Wardrobe Joana Cardoso
Original soundtrack Pedro Augusto (aka Ghuna X)
Video Mario Gutiérrez Cru
Lighting Design and Technical Direction Celestino Gomes
Image Joana Cardoso and Nicolai Sarbib
Illustration Mister Mourão
Stage Photography Francisca Moreira
Video Registry Rodrigo Lacerda
Hair Design Ilídio Design
Executive Production Lígia Santos
With the Support of
Governo de Portugal – Direção-Geral das Artes
Câmara Municipal de Coimbra
Teatro Académico de Gil Vicente
Universidade de Coimbra
Semana Cultural da Universidade de Coimbra
Fundação Bissaya Barreto
Ilídio Design
MAFIA – Federação Cultural de Coimbra
TEUC
Antena 2
Bloco de Esquerda
Dolce Vita Coimbra
Público
PCP
RTP2
RUC
UCV – Televisão Web da Universidade de Coimbra
- Productions
- Nano T (tour)
- Pre-show conversation "Nano T"
- News
- Conversation about NANO T - "Imagination is the engine of knowledge"
- CD launch with the soundtrack of "2 Cyborgs in an Empty Room" by Pedro Augusto (aka "Ghuna X") and "finissage" "NANO T"
- Note from the "NANO T" director
- Rehearsals for our next production "NANO T" have already begun at Casa das Artes.
- Photographic registry of NANO T rehearsals before the premiere
- Nanotechnology: the future is coming!