ONYX

Installation - Performance - Oneiric-Political Occupation of Space

ONYX is an oneiric ritual of vacuum and presence, the pause before chaos and chaos itself in the annulment of borders and the construction of metaphors between intervention and dream, loaded with silence, noise, non-linear information, weight and a fluctuation of time. We bring the street, the poetry of punchlines, bodies loaded into limbos of mantras and machines. Memory here is future and we move in spirals calling out to ancestors and future beings. Voices come from those who gave birth to us and we talk between worlds, about future memories of past times that have yet to be lived. The monsters that only exist in our heads come to tell us that the only certainty is absolute uncertainty — Piny

ONYX is divided into two parts:

Sound video installation (2 hours)

Sound design and live performance: Carincur & Leo Soulflow 

Vídeo and light design: João Pedro Fonseca 

Scenography: Piny

Performance (1 hour)

Creation: Piny 

Movement co-creation: André Cabral 

Performers: André Cabral, Piny

Sound design & live act: Leo Soulflow & Carincur

Light design: João Pedro Fonseca 

Interviews: Carla Sousa (Piny’s mom) and Marta Cabral (André Cabral’s mom)

Text: André Cabral, Helena Palmer, Piny

Coproduction: Festival DDD, Teatro Municipal do Porto; Teatro do Bairro Alto; Festival Materiais Diversos; Teatro Aveirense - Câmara Municipal de Aveiro; Rota Clandestina

Residencies: Teatro do Bairro Alto - Lisboa; Estúdios Victor Cordon - Lisboa; Grand Studio Bruxelles; O Espaço do Tempo - Montemor-o-Novo; Alkantara - Lisboa