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
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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A night with Mike, by Michael Smith | 12nd Festival
This performance by Michael Smith is a tragicomic, humorous depiction of the character Mike, a sort of alter ego of the artist; a common man who "believes everything and understands nothing"
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