A. Isa Araújo

"Corpo líquido e plástico" (liquid and plastic body) it’s an umbrella title for a sequence of works on the climate crisis and its influence in the circular relationship of the body, itself nature, with nature. It explores how several people, myself included, read the climate crisis and relate to it both in terms of their own somatic reactions, as well as by questioning destructive economic and political systems that cause increasing global unsustainability and binaries such as body/mind, nature/culture and human/other-than-human.

Festival Jardins Abertos, Estufa Fria, Lisbon, PT 2022

with sound artist Cláudio Sousa.

The live performance takes place in Estufa Fria (Cold Greenhouse) whose grounds used to house a basalt extraction quarry. This historical background of extractivism, the colonial legacy of collecting and exhibiting 'exotic' plants, juxtaposed with the current role of the greenhouse as a 'green refuge' in Lisbon's city center, alongside its wooden lath roofing that blurs the boundaries between inside and outside, provide a complex context to further explore the climate crisis-related issues that have been developed in past cycles of the project. Namely, to examine power relations and hierarchies between human beings and non-humans, questioning the dominant anthropocentric paradigm that separates humans from the rest of nature and delving into the dynamics of nature-as-other, otherness and the intricate interplay on the perceptual boundaries between interior and exterior.

The performance weaves together live music creation, videos used in previous Corpo líquido e plástico cycles and new ones produced on site, in an audiovisual dialogue produced and manipulated in real-time during a live stream. The audience is invited to engage in this accumulation of layers by connecting on mobile devices to the live stream while walking through the Estufa Fria and choosing how to interact with the audiovisual media, the performers and the space. Participants can choose to carry the device while walking through the Estufa Fria, placing it amidst the greenery, on the rocks by the water streams, within the basalt caves surrounded by stalagmites, or simply laying it on the ground. The options for engagement are suggested but intentionally left open.

#EnActBxl Sunday, 27 June, SeeU, Brussels

KÖRPER Performance Art Festival, Centro de Artes, C.R., PT

• Finalist, SWIFF Film Festival, USA, 2023

• LISBIFF • Lisboa Indie Film Festival, Lisbon, PT, 2023

• Best ECO Work, Sea of Art International Film Festival, Stavanger, NO, 2023

• Imajitari - Dance Film Festival, Jakarta, ID, 2022

• OurFestival8 Multidisciplinary Fest., Athens, GR, 2022

• Duemila30 Sustainability Film Festival, Milan, IT, 2022

• Desassossego short film festival, Porto, PT, 2022

• Marmostra short film festival, Tocha, PT, 2021

Creation, Direction and Interpretation: A. Isa Araújo

Sound and Artistic collaboration: Cláudio Sousa

Participants (movement testimonies): Beatriz Ioty, Carina Carvalho, Carlos Alves, Catarina Leandro, Débora Marcussi, Isadora Goulart, Rita Bastos

Participants (audio testimonies): A. Correia, A. Sousa, B.I., D.M., M. Correia, T. Luzio, S. Conceição, R. Correia

Video art | 2020 | 10 minutes

Still frames from video art piece.

Aproximação e Afastamento: criação no meio natural, Pedro Vaz, Centro Mutável, Montemor-o-Novo, PT

Centro Mutável II, collective exhibition, Galeria Faculdade Belas Artes, PT, 2024

Centro Mutável, collective exhibition, Galeria Municipal Montemor-o-Novo, PT, 2023

The fascination with the sounds that arise from the movements of the dancers in dance shows - the steps, the falls, the friction on the floor - shaped by the acoustic character of the room, the stage, the objects, was what gave shape to the project. It searches the possibility of creating a dance about architecture, through a choreography that makes us listen to the space, through the interaction of the performers with it. This is the metaphor of the project: a dance whose object is space.

Duration: 2h
• Creative Laboratory, Master in Arts and Sound Technologies, ESMAE, Porto, Portugal, 2020;