Dominik Barbier e Cathy Vogan | 8th Festival

The impossibility to express a love story between two people through telecommunications. Such is the theme of Dominik Barbier and Cathy Vogan’s autobiographic video installation

testimonies

Video Opera for Paik, by Steina Vasulka and Stephen Vitiello | 11th Festival

A visual and musical tribute to Nam June Paik, paid by Stenia Vasulka and Stephen Vitiello in 1996, based on the master’s works

performances

Santa Clara Poltergeist, by Fausto Fawcett | 9th Festival

Fausto Fawcett’s irreverence spawned one of the pioneering performances of the Festival, presented in 1992 and featuring a polyphony of music, bodies, and images.

performances

Poscatidevenum, by Eder Santos | 10th Festival

Video, music and performance come together in a large multimedia installation designed by Eder Santos, Paulo Santos and the group Uakti, presented in 1992

performances

Poesia é risco, by Augusto de Campo, Cid Campos and Walter Silveira | 11th Festival

Created in 1996, the "verbivocovisual event", as described by the authors, mixed poetry, electronic music, singing, and video footage

performances

Passagem de Mariana, by Eder Santos, Paulo Santos and grupo Uakti | 11th Festival

Music, image, and Indian themes come together to represent the deadly sins in this work by Eder Santos and Paulo Santos, in 1996

performances

O Gabinete de Chico, by Chelpa Ferro | 12nd Festival

This performance, presented in 1998, combines electronic image projections edited on the fly and a musical performance involving conventional instruments and noisy objects, like an orange squeezer and door bells

performances

No Sleep and a dead Bird, by Stephen Vitiello | 10th Festival

In Stephen Vitiello’s 1994 performance, live footage is combined with spoken texts and a soundtrack based on guitar loops and bird calls

performances

Bestiário masculino feminino, by Waly Salomão | 12nd Festival

In 1998, the audience is invited to enter the venue wearing animal masks, as Waly Salomão recites poems to the sound of electronic music, black women dancing, and hens clucking

performances

Bardo, by Marcondes Dourado | 11th Festival

In this performance presented in 1996, Marcondes Dourado combines dancing, video and theater, inspired by Antonin Artaud’s texts about the experience of seclusion in psychiatric facilities

performances