O2 OXYGEN Performance

O₂it's a Performance on Stilts that through the languages of Physical Theater and Animated Forms, invites the public to reflect on how society could survive, where technology fades human relations and the access to oxygen becomes a luxury.

An intercultural public art project, that borns in early 2019 at Macao city, where records of alarming levels of pollutant particles are beginning to recur. An idyllic scenario, but for inappropriate reasons, for the creation of a work that arises with the purpose of sensitizing others to an ever greater need to find sustainable practices as a way to overcome the adverse environmental changes that have become today, transversal to all.

In contemporary times, Art presents the opportunity to inhabit artistic worlds, where creative and critical interrelations stimulate our senses, breaking concepts, hybridizing conceptions, articulating and crossing artifacts and processes, thus opening new possibilities.

SYNOPSIS

In a fragile and uncertain future, a world dwarfed by unbridled modernization emerges, suspended by the few memories that still echo in resilient bodies in the incessant search for the vital element that supports them to Life.

CREDITS

Author, Direction, Artistic and Plastic Direction: Pedro Leal

Production Direction and Audiovisuals: Helena Oliveira

Animated Forms and Plastic Conception: Pedro Leal

Sound Design, Technical Team and Construction Assistance: Álvaro Presumido

Performers: Ana Andrade, Helena Oliveira, Manuel Amarelo, Mafalda Cabral, Pedro Vicente, Tiago Augusto

Production: PIA Projectos de Intervenção Artística CRL

MACAO Collaborators: Trista Cheong / Long Fung Drama Club

Thanks to collaborations: Sara Araújo (Performer), Nuno Dores (Performer), Catarina Mota e Rui Rodrigues

Creation in MACAO with SUPPORT of: Macao Cultural Institute, Macao Foundation and Oriente Foundation

Creation with SUPPORT of: Fundação GDA

Institucional SUPPORT: Município de Palmela and Junta de Freguesia de Pinhal Novo