The Materiais Diversos Festival promotes the meeting of different audiences and imaginaries around the arts (dance, theatre, music and performance) with thought, questioning actuality and fostering cultural participation as a condition for citizenship. Born in Minde, in 2009, it spread to Alcanena and Cartaxo (in 2013) and became one of the most representative projects for programming outside the large centres in Portugal, attempting to think and act from the places it originates. It had been occurring annually until 2017 and became a biannual event starting with its 10th edition in 2019.
From the 5th to the 15th of October 2023, the Festival Materiais Diversos will be in Alcanena and Minde with a program of dance, theater and music shows, installations and conversations. Slowing down and making people, places and processes visible are the mottos of the 12th edition of the festival.
María Jerez, with the collaboration of Quim Pujol, invites us to work with the imperative of an invented verb: “Indíralo”. The definition of this verb would be “not to do something individually” and designates a practice in which actions are decidedly not done alone. In this practice, the collective body is inescapable and actions, realisations, compositions and states must always be defined as they occur in community, understanding community both as human and non-human.
During one week we will work on the choreography of a multiple and divergent brain that does not move in a single direction but rather along many simultaneous lines without reaching collective agreements. This choreography implies engaging with what we do not know and is not yet determined. It is a state of collective uncertainty.
We know we are together in “this”, but “this” is never defined, it is an enigma that we hold between us all, humans and non-humans. How can we engage with this suspension of sense and meaning? “Indíralo” is the celebration of this engagement, this coming together in the enigma.
WORKPLAN
Wednesday 5th of July
10h-11h Welcoming the human participants
11h-13h Indíralo: rehearsing a suprahuman assemblage. Special guest: Centro Ciência Viva de Alviela – Carsoscópio
13h-14h Lunch break
14h-15h Group visit to the collective subconscious (communal napping)
15h-17h Divergent discussion: “what are you tired of doing alone?”
17h- 17h30 Summary beyond consensus
Thursday 6th of July
10h -13h Indíralo: rehearsing a suprahuman assemblage. Special guest: the cave
13h-14h Lunch break
14h – 15h Group visit to the collective subconscious (communal napping)
15h – 17h Divergent sculpture
17h – 17h30 Summary beyond consensus
Friday 7th of July
10h-13h Indíralo: rehearsing a suprahuman assemblage. Special guest: the river
13h-14h Lunch break
14h-15h Group visit to the collective subconscious (communal napping)
15h-17h Divergent writing
17h- 17h30 Summary beyond consensus
Saturday 8th of July
10h-13h Indíralo: ensaiando uma montagem supra-humana. Convidado especial: a floresta / Indíralo: rehearsing a suprahuman assemblage. Special guest: the forest
13h-14h Almoço / Lunch break
14h-15h Visita em grupo ao subconsciente coletivo (cochilo comunitário) / Group visit to the collective subconscious (communal napping)
15h às 17h Coreografia Divergente / Divergent choreography
17h- 17h30 Resumo além do consenso / Summary beyond consensus
Sunday 9th of July
10h-13h Indíralo: rehearsing a suprahuman assemblage. Special guest: the spirits
13h-14h Lunch break
14h-15h Group visit to the collective subconscious (communal napping)
15h-17h30 Divergent assembly (session open to the public)
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