This is a performative work that is enunciated in parts. Which configures itself, a priori, divided and in flight. Trying to tell a story of a community that has adapted to molecular changes in its drinking water, it also tries to conceive its network of knowledge, its past and inevitably its future. Not tied to the story that drives it, however, the project wanders between workshop formats, readings, choreographies, books, and debates.

In this second moment, Odete invites Luan Okun and Puta da Silva to imagine the folklore and rituals of this fictional place.

LUAN OKUN

PUTA DA SILVA

“Puta da Silva” is more than just a name, it is the status of an immigrant Afrotravesti multi-artist. Puta da Silva began her career in Brazil as a teacher, actress and theatre director. She has a degree in Theatre from the Federal University of Uberlândia and a Master in Theatre and Community from the Lisbon School of Theatre and Cinema. She directed the show “Benedites”, by the company Ocupa Teatro, which circulated through festivals in several states in Brazil during 2016, 2017 and early 2018. But it was by moving to Lisbon in 2016, and living the challenges of being an immigrant, that Puta da Silva found in sex work the possibility to emancipate and autonomise herself. According to the singer, prostitution was her individual protective equipment as the city swallowed her up. Puta da Silva decided to share her experiences at night with society in general, using music and the arts to create various political works, centred on the daily issues of transvestite, immigrant, racialised and sex workers. Her creative research is linked to stories, memories and experiences that are corporealized in elucubrative narratives.