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.
Nothingness, is a project about the end and beginning again, that fragile interval between the cycle which finished and a cycle that begins, the intermediary moment where destructive and creative energies which we carry within us converge. In Nothingness, Maria Eugenia Lopes dedicates herself to this latent, inert moment, where everything is finished and nothing is yet born. This in between where despair and illusion live. Metaphorically, she associates this final and beginning again moment with the notion of “nothing”, of transition of the non-existence to existence and of existence to annihilation. In “Nothingness” Maria Eugenia Lopes addresses the fear of the void, of what is horrifying in the idea of losing everything, of losing oneself, of the obsession for freezing that which is essentially in constant transformation.
Maria Eugenia Lopez is the invited guest of Grand Studio for the annual interchange with Materiais Diversos (MD).
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