Diego Bragà
Geografia do Amor
From the (i)material heritage of Ricardo Braga
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Thursday-Saturday •
Duration: 60min
Age-range: +16
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© Rui Palma
SOUND LANDSCAPE, MUSIC & PERFORMANCE Rui Lima & Sérgio Martins
SCENOGRAPHY & PAINTING Martim
SCENOGRAPHY ASSISTANT Andrea Paz
LIGHT DESIGN Filipe Pureza
MUSICAL PRODUCTION OF EP GEOGRAFIA DO AMOR Chico Neves| Estúdio304
SUPPORT Fundação GDA and Self-Mistake
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS AND PARTNERSHIPS Altafonte Brasil; British Council|Creative Scotland; Clau Figueiredo; Circolando; Espaço Alkantara; Faculdade de Belas-Artes da Universidade de Lisboa; Festival END; Fundação GDA; João Cristovão Leitão; Maíra Flores & Luciano Scherer; Queer Film Festival; Rough Mix Festival;Rua das Gaivotas 6; Self Mistake; Selo Estúdio304; Silly Season; Sônia Pinto; Sundance Institute; Temps d’Images Lisboa & The New York Times.
The ‘Geography of Love’ honors Queer Ancestry.
This show explores the heritage of Ricardo Wagner Braga, my uncle – who was chasing me around the house, dressed as a witch – as a possibility of creating an updated, festive and erotic cartography of the world. The inheritance is a box with personal archives collected in the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s. The geographical collection includes seventeen Brazilian states (Amazonas, Pará, Pernambuco, Sergipe, Paraiba, Ceará, Bahia, Mato Grosso, Federal District, Goiás, Espírito Santo, Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paulo, Minas Gerais, Santa Catarina, Paraná, and Rio Grande do Sul); and fourteen countries (Angola, Chile, United States of America, Peru, Panama, Portugal, Canada, Italy, Spain, Netherlands, England, Israel, Iraq and Switzerland).
This collection, among the objects, contains: two hundred and fifty-four city postcards, written and stamped, exchanged with about one hundred and sixty women and men (80% men, 90% Brazilians); two hundred and fifty postcards from cities with no stamp and signature; identity documents; love letters; longing letters; personal photographs; photographs of ‘male mermaids’; diary sheets; a drawing of “Miss Universe”; postcards sent by me; Christmas’ cards; ‘saints of death’; among others.
This melodrama proposes to be a utopian gesture to update Ricardo’s archives and heritage, deceased as a result of AIDS, in the year two thousand and eleven. This gesture was made with Love and offerings: material; immaterials; aesthetic; iconographic; mythological; poetic; spiritual; magical and intuitive.
I called this gesture “Geography of Love.” An atlas – cathartic, liberating and magical, like the fairy tales – that celebrates our dead and queer ancestors.
DIEGO BRAGÀ
Diego Bragà is a child of the 90’s and since that time has identified with the non-binary gender, he was born in Belo Horizonte and lives in Lisbon. He started his studies as a teenager. Education: Graduation in “Social Communication” – monograph about the body in Lygia Clark’s work; Dance (ballet/modern/jazz/contemporary) at Primeiro Ato Centro de Dança; Acting at UFMG; “Creating Theatre and Performance” at London International School of Performing Arts; Among the creative grants he has received we can highlight the Sundance Film Festival; Royal Shakespeare Company; British Council/ Creative Scotland; Goethe Institut; Belas Artes ULisboa and Self Mistake Grant. As a creator in the arts he has received the awards CenaMinas, CenaMúsica, CulturaCopa, and Artista Revelação Encontro. In Brazil and together with the painter Martim Dinis he founded the award winning platform MADAME TEATRO.
The professional shows he created are BATA-ME (2014); Em Louvor à Vergonha (2014); Salomé (2017); Among his co-creations are Cleópatra (2017), Passada – Choque de Monstrxs (2019) and Festa de 15 Anos (2020).
In 2022 he released the EP “Geografia do Amor” produced by the iconic Chico Neves (Chico has produced records by Elis Regina, O Rappa, Milton Nascimento, Los Hermanos and Gilberto Gil).
His creations have been in the: Temps d’Images Festival, National Theatre of Scotland, Almagro Festival, SESC, FUNARTE, CCBB, Queer Film Festival, Edinburgh Festival, Rough Mix and Sundance Film Festival.
He has worked with Albano Jerónimo, Jêróme Bel, Julie Beauvais, Horace Lundd, Susan Worsfold, Tiago Rodrigues, Mickael de Oliveira, Grupo Galpão and Anna Dora Dorno.
He studied with Meg Stuart, Thomas Ostermeier, Amy Russell, and Marina Abramovic.