“QUANTUM TRAVELLERS” is the name of the performative activation, assemble and strategy for dissemination of Sara Gebran’s new ‘Choreographic Publication’ QUANTUM SOCIETY, inviting 2-6 local artists to read, discuss and remediate any aspect of this publication into a performance. In each city, the artists receives and read this book previous to their encounter. Josefa Pereira, Duda Affonso, Nuno Marques and Sara Gebran, will meet for 2 days in Lisbon to activate and perform this work, translating from the 2D space of the pages to the stage at Rua Das Gaivotas 6. After the performance, it follows the presentation of the book, Q&A and to purchase the book.

“QUANTUM TRAVELLERS” has been performed in 8 cities: Berlin, Brussels, Stockholm, Oslo, Bergen, Caracas, Copenhagen and Århus, and a total of 24 artists has participated.

Duda Affonso, is a Portuguese-Brazilian conceptual artist who operates in a transdisciplinary manner. Her research articulates bodies, structures, movement, images and mind in a conceptual way through a speculative retro-futurist perspective, exploring various platforms such as cinema, photography, installation, performance and text. She is currently developing a research on the intersection between imaginary studies and cinema studies as an FCT scholarship holder for her PhD in Comparative Modernities: Literature, Arts and Cultures at the University of Minho, Braga. She holds a master’s degree in Contemporary Artistic Practices from FBAUP and a degree in Cinema from IESB, with a specialization in Digital Photography from NYFA.

Sara Gebran: Choreographer, dancer, professor in choreography, writer and urban planner. Based in Copenhagen. Her works are situated within performance art, exploring media such as video, text, sound, and architecture, mediated by the dancing body. Her publications are subversive platforms for self-governance and self-instituting one’s own knowledge, independently from the validation by art institutions and academy curations, in the belief that citizens need to search for other systems of civil support, especially in this time when institutions and the state are unable to respond to the need of its people. Her writings are speculative, using multiple categories to get rid of  the constrain of any categorisation. Like all her artistic works, they are all center around the study of how power works and ways for self and collective-empowerment.

Josefa Pereira
Choreographer and performer Josefa Pereira lives between bridges and partnerships in São Paulo and Amsterdam, where she completed her master’s degree in DAS Choreography – AHK in 2021, and Portugal, where she currently lives. Her most recent artistic practice is defined by an orbiting field in which non-linear curiosities approach each other attracted by interests such as monstrosity, the fantastic and fabulation. From the questions “what is done”, “with what is done”, and “how is it done”, comes a strong recourse to plasticity so that the gesture emerges as that which sustains an event.