Water Closet: A Project of Hygiene for the Future

Water Closet: A Project of Hygiene for the Future
Gaivotas Em Terra

Catarina Campos Costa, Francesco Napoli, André Loubet & André Pollux

Water Closet: A Project of Hygiene for the Future

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Thursday-Saturday •

Duration: 60min
Age-range: 18

Booking: 5€

This project brings together a study of the Author Rights, (it’s code and judicial form) and a speculative speech about what right can one have over his body and intellect.

Water Closet is the name of the place created in the “Hygiene Project for the Future” in the year 2019. The decision to sanitize the world was taken and today everyone is a bathroom. We are in Water Closet, a city in the future.

The narrative is simple: A B C
A e B are in an love relationship. A feels that B is stealing its identity. B realizes it’s not authentic so it hires C to change it, transform it, to create its new identity, an authentic one. C is something like a plastic surgeon that changes bodies and personalities. After the surgery, C falls in love with its “work of art” – B’s body and personality – and claims its Author Rights over its existence. What happens to B? How can it live without the right of its own existence? While running away from a copy, it is also robbed, because C also wants a piece!
This artistic object is the result of the input of all the participants on the project.
CO-CREATION Catarina Campos Costa, Francesco Napoli, André Loubet
SUPPORT TO CREATION Bernardo Almeida
SOUND Miguel Dias
VIDEO André Pollux
SUPPORT Fundação GDA
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Rua das Gaivotas 6, Polo das Gaivotas, Hermann Novus Indústria Têxtil, Bernardo Chatillon, Isabel Sarsfield Rodrigues, António Marques Moura, João Mota
THANKS TO ALL THE INTERVIEWED BERLINERS Lucas, Manuel, Elizabeth, Andrew, Hanna, Marcus, Otto, Emiliano, Alejandro, Sander, Uwe, Dodzi, Stephanie and Arnaud
Recreating, reproducing and copying, the word “Originality” is replaced by the word “Autenticity”. We invert the rule to talk about it. We’re in Water Closet, a future city.
 
Copy, transform, combine.
And because we’ll be talking about quotes, here is one of our favourites.
We quote Julian Rosefeldt, that places Cate Blanchett quotingJim Jarmusch who quotes Jean Luc Godard who quotes … “Nothing is original. Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination. Devour old films, new films, music, books, paintings, photographs, poems, dreams, random conversations, architecture, bridges, street signs, trees, clouds, bodies of water, light and shadows. Select only things to steal from that speak directly to your soul. If you do this, your work (and theft) will be authentic. Authenticity is invaluable; originality is nonexistent. And don’t bother concealing your thievery—celebrate it if you feel like it. In any case, always remember what Jean Luc Godard said: “It’s not where you take things from—it’s where you take them to.”

Born in Porto, 1990. Atended Academia Contemporânea do Espectáculo (2009). Finished the first year at Faculdade de Letras do Porto in the a Philosophy degree.(2012) Graduated from Escola Superior de Teatro e Cinema em Teatro – Ramo de Actores (2017). Worked with some theatre companies such as Teatro do Bolhão, Cornucópia e Artistas Unidos. Has been an intern at Teatro Nacional Dona Maria II for the past year.

Designer and visual performer specialised in musical stages. He has operated visuals for artists such as Fafá de Belém, DJs like Sven Väth and festivals like NOS Alive, Neopop, Time Warp and Awakenings. He also teaches VJ and creates video-mapping projects for galleries and cultural events, such as Bienal de Arquitectura and Virada Cultural de São Paulo, in addition to brands such as Absolut, Nokia and Puma.

Born in Porto, 1990. Studied theatre in Academia Contemporânea do Espectáculo, then moved to Paris in 2009 to pursue her studies in École Jacques Lecoq and École Philippe Gaulier. In 2011 returned to Portugal and graduated from Escola Superior de Teatro e Cinema, Lisbon (2014). In theatre she has worked with Bernad Sobel, Joaquim Benite, Jorge Silva Melo, Luís Miguel Cintra, Madalena Victorino, Ricardo Neves-Neves, João Mota and she participated in the 2017’s edition of École des Maitre with the Berligum colective Transquinquennal. In TV she participated in “Coração d’ Ouro” (SIC) and “Palácio do Vidago” (RTP). Despite her work as an actress she has also directed a shortdocumentary in India named: “I have never seen the sky”; and performed at Boom Festival 2016 with “Heyoka”. She has worked as a tennis coach in the Academia de Champs between 2014 and 2016 and she has been working as an English teacher online since 2017.

(Salerno, Italy, 1984)

After graduating at School of Dramatic Arts “Paolo Grassi” – Milano, he continued his studies with Marcela Serli, Claudio Morganti, Michele Di Stefano, Deflorian / Tagliarini and Paola Lattanzi. As performer he takes part in events such as: Torinodanza, Biennale Danza, Short Theater, Vetrina XL Giovane Danza d’Autore, Drosera Festival, Danae Festival, XXVI ed. Ecole des Maîtres. In fashion her collaborated with: Borderline project by Virginia von zu Furstenberg / Dancecross for fashion art and design / Seipersei by Antonio Marras – Galleria Minini, Brescia. He works with the balance between body expression and speech theater, looking for an identity within the big container of contemporary performance and at the same time trying to contravene the rules, looking for a personal dramaturgy that combines his passions, studies and interests from architecture to cinema to contemporary art. From the last experiences with videomaker Chiara Caterina in 2015 the Collettivo Bon Voyage was born. (Sparks, selected at 69th edition of Cannes Festival – Short Corner). He often collaborates with the performer and choreographer Francesco Marilungo (Milano) and the OHT companies – Office for a Human Theater (Rovereto, Trento) and Dispensa Barzotti (Parma).