Pieces
Bruno Humberto
Location:
Project Arts Centre, Dublin
Space:
Cube
Form:
Live Art Performance
Duration:
50 mins
Date:
Saturday May 10th
Start time:
6pm
Ticket price:
€16 / €14
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Age: 15+
A human being enters the stage and disappears several times. He falls in various ways, gets up, sings the indecipherable, walks down a corridor, opens the last door, to fall back on himself. In this play we witness several endings and beginnings at the same time. Some people are sitting in the audience and hear a voice while watching the execution.
Pieces is a multidisciplinary work that focuses on the various infinites present in the part, a performance composed of several choreographic compositions, inquires about the poetic potential which exists in the brief description of a work or in its evocation. Inspired by the short film and cinema masterpiece “The Perfect Human” (1967) by Jørgen Leth, based on the legacy of Bas Jan Ader’s falls, from an original script composed of concrete movements and instructions, read and performed live.
About the Artist
Bruno Humberto studied and taught in the Masters of Performance Making, at Goldsmiths College, London. Author and director of The Camus Incident (site-specific performance finalist of the Oxford Samuel Beckett Theater Trust Award), the solo Holding Nothing, the urban landscape performance Land, the interactive piece The Death of the Audience, Carbo, Pieces, The Human Hand – an history of creation and violence, among others. Collaborated with the choreographers Charlotte Spencer, Tara D’Arquian, Yael Karavan, with the artists Graeme Miller, Gustavo Ciríaco, Allard van Hoorn, among others. In 2008, with Borja Sagasti, he founded the theater and performance company Gazpacho Unlimited, producing a series of plays in UK and Europe, with a focus on dramaturgy and audience interaction, which included 2 Divide (2009) (nominated for the best performer award at Dublin Fringe Festival).
Collaborated with the writer Rui de Almeida Paiva, with whom he made the immersive theater play The Kidnapping (2018), A Vila (2019), The Interruption (Pause for intermissions) (2020), Piece for Intervals (2021), among others. He is co-editor of the contemporary art magazine Wrong Wrong and works as a curator in different projects and institutions. The exhibition Acts of Disappearance, awarded by the Parallel award was presented, among others, in the 2019 edition of Photo London.
Credits
Text, Choreography, Music and Performance: Bruno Humberto
Photography: Miguel Ângelo Santarém
Residence support: Thirdbase, Museu da Marioneta
Supported by: Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation