ANTONIN ARTAUD'S
THE THEATRE AND THE PLAGUE
Contributing Artists:
Florence de Mèredieu (France), Nabil Chahhed (Tunisia), Trausti Ólafsson (Iceland), Jorge Ndlozy (Mozambique), Wolfgang Pannek (Germany), Reha Bliss (Russia), Candelaria Silvestro (Argentina), Nourit Masson-Sékiné (France), Théophile Choquet (France), Or Kittikong (Thailand), Jürgen Müller-Popken (Switzerland), Insa Popken (Germany), Shane Pike (Australia), Maura Baiocchi (Brazil)
Florence de Mèredieu
France
Florence de Mèredieu
Philosopher by training, she is a writer and specialist in Antonin Artaud, as well as in modern and contemporary art. Professor, taught philosophy of art and aesthetics at the University of Paris-1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. She published works on children's drawings, Van Gogh, André Masson, Duchamp, Picasso, Gutai, new technologies, from a material and immaterial history of modern and contemporary art (Bordas, 1994 / Larousse, 2004; 2017) that lays the foundations for a new art history. She dedicated nine books to different life stages and productions by Antonin Artaud. In 1984: first book on the poet's drawings,
Antonin Artaud, Portraits et gis-gris, Blusson;1984-2007-2019, une biografia C’était Antonin Artaud, Fayard, 2006 ; Eis Antonin Artaud, Perspectiva, Sao Paulo, 2011; Et : BACON, ARTAUD, ViINCI. Une blessure magnifique, Blusson, 2019. She is also a photographer, author of experimental films (Video Blues, 1981; Video Pulsations, 1982, etc.) and co-author (with Nil Yalter) of a 3D video and image installation (Television, la lune , 1992-1993).
Tunísia
Nabil Chahhed
Actor and comedian.
Professor of theater studies at the National Ministry of Education.
Iceland
Trausti Ólafsson
Author of "Ibsen's Theater of Ritualistic Visions: An Interdisciplinary Study of Ten Plays" - in Stage and Screen Studies, V. 12. (Peter Lang AG, International Academic Publisher, Bern / Switzerland)
Mozambique
Jorge Ndlozy
Mozambican dancer trained in traditional and contemporary dance. He plays timbila, a traditional Mozambican instrument declared by the UN to be an oral and immaterial heritage of humanity, and several drums.
Under the direction of Maura Baiocchi, he worked in Xiphamanine - the place of the eternal origin of the mphma tree during the Matola-Brasil cultural exchange. Currently, as a guest of Taanteatro Companhia, he participates in 1001 Plateaus, a show that is part of the Taanteatro 25 Anos project, contemplated by the Municipal Program for the Promotion of Dance for the City of São Paulo.
In 2018 he stars in the solo Mensagem de Moçambique presented at Funarte SP and CRDSP.
Germany
Wolfgang Pannek
German. Resides in Brazil since 1992. Director, playwright, actor and producer. Co-director of Taanteatro Companhia. MA in Philosophy, Literatur and Psychology. PhD student in philosophy at the Academy of Fine Arts Leipzig. Author and director of shows such as 1001 Platôs (2017), cARTAUDgrafia trilogy (2015), Máquina Hamlet Fisted (2010), among others. Organizer of international projects such as Antonin Artaud's The Theatre and The Plague (2020), Ocupação Deleuze (2017), Ocupação Artaud (2016), Hans Thies Lehmann Brasil Tour (2010), Matola-Brasil Cultural Exchange (2005), Artaud 100 Anos ( 1996), Mostra 95 Butoh e Teatro Pesquisa (1995). He did choreography and acted in Os Sertões do Teatro Oficina (2002 to 2004). He acted in the FBO series of HBO Brasil. Along with Maura Baiocchi he is co-author of several books, including Taanteatro: Teatro Coreográfico de Tensões (Azougue, RJ, 2007), Taanteatro: Rito de Passagem (Transcultura, SP, 2011), Taanteatro: MAE -Mandala de Energia Corporal (Transcultura , SP, 2013), Taanteatro: Forças & Formas (Transcultura, SP, 2018).
Argentina
Candelaria Silvestro
Argentine painter, she has carried out individual and collective samples since 1998 and participates in painting and engraving salons. She works independently in his studio in Falda del Carmen, Córdoba / Argentina. Her work is based on painting with mixed techniques such as collage, embroidery, use of pigments and different materials with a sense of experimentation always taken to the pictorial.
The main individual exhibitions are Funarte São Paulo 2001, CCBB 2001, Galería Espacio Centro 2004, Paláis de Glace 2007, individual Caraffa 2009.
Collaborator of Taanteatro Companhia since 2000.
France
Nourit Masson-Sékiné
Multidisciplinary artist, painter, photographer, she holds numerous exhibitions, installations and costumes in galleries, museums, alternative spaces, in France and on the international stage.
The collaboration with French artist and writer Nourit Masson-Sékiné dates back to the late 1980s, when she and Maura Baiocchi cooperated in performances and installations in Tokyo / Japan. Since then, it has been, at the invitation of Taanteatro Companhia, repeatedly to Brazil.
Dance specialist Butoh, she is the author of the historic international reference album on Japanese avant-garde dance "Butoh: Shades of Darkness" (with Jean Viala ed. Shufunotomo 1988 and 2000) and the work on the dialectic of life / death "The courage of live to die ", published by Relié (2000) and released in the pocket by Albin Michel (2002).
France
Théophile Choquet
Actor based in Paris. Graduated from the Conservatories of Metz and Strasbourg, he had additional training in Italy, Spain, Germany, Belgium and Brazil, where he participated twice in the TTOR (Taanteatro Oficina Residência) . He holds a master's degree in theater studies at the University of Paris III Sorbonne nouvelle. At the invitation of several institutions, he presents poetry recitals and contemporary theater solos.
In 2018, he completed an artistic process started in 2014 around the celebrations of the Centenary of the Great War. He was also dedicated to sharing the work of the poet Antonin Artaud (1896-1948). During the month of September, a major tour of South America led him to present shows and conferences about his work in Brazil, Argentina and Chile.
He is a member of the Association Rodez Antonin Artaud.
Thailand
Or Kittikong
Assistant Professor of Performing Arts at
Music and Performing Arts Affiliation Department, Faculty of Fine Arts and
Applied Arts, Khon Kaen University, Khon Kaen, Thailand.
PhD in Philosophy in Performing Arts, Western Australian Academy of Performing; Master in Drama Education and Creative Arts in Education, from the University of Exeter, UK; Bachelor of Fine Arts (Theater Arts), Moscow State University, Lomonosov.
Switzerland
Jürgen Müller-Popken
Actor, trained in classical pantomime at EG Böttger (Bern-CH), in Physical Theater with Jacques Lecoq (Paris-F), in Comedy at Teatro-Studio di Roma with Roy Bosier (Rom-I) and in Alain's improvisation method Knapp with Jean-Martin Moncereau.
He performed in several productions and short films of his own and his group, always researching idiosyncratic forms of expression.
Since 1978, he has written scripts for his own plays: 1978 "Milchstrasse", 1985 "no bread grows on the roofs", 1993 "open door" etc. He co-wrote for several theater productions (including Theater Monsun Hamburg / Lift Theater Köln / Moks Theater Bremen / freiraum theaterensemble bremen / Ervi & Alvi, Musik Clowns / among others).
Throughout his career, he directed more than 50 pieces, many with international tours. His direction is shaped by his own artistic training in the "Physical Theater". His productions follow his own strong visual language and a synthesis of various forms of expression.
Germany
Insa Popken
Graduated in Applied Theater Studies in Giessen, Contemporary Art in Nottingham, she received practical training at the Desmond Jones School for Mimicry and Physical Theater in London.
Since 1997, conception and representation in several own productions in the area of Physical Theater. More recently, at the TILLY & PRONZ mask theater, with the play "SweetHome", which toured Germany, Hungary and Switzerland (until 2006).
Since 1999, she writes scripts and plays. As part of the work at the Bremen City Theater, she creates texts for scenic readings (models invented and reworked) and radio plays.
Australia
Shane Tsing-Pike
Sino-Australian writer / director residing in Brisbane, Australia. He holds a PhD (Performing Arts - Direction) from the Australian Academy of Performing Arts (WAAPA) and is Artistic Director at Wax Lyrical Productions. He directed national and international productions, produced several of his creative works and was also hired for major projects as a writer / playwright (Ten Percent Terror, Brisbane Powerhouse). As an associate professor of theater at Queensland University of Technology, Shane has also taught as an academic at the University of Queensland and has several academic publications - in the field of research conducted by performing arts practice - to his name.
Brazil
Maura Baiochhi
Director, choreographer, performer, actress. Creator of the taanteatro approach (choreographic theater of tensions). Founding Director of Taanteatro Companhia. Master in communication and semiotics at PUC São Paulo (2006). Author of Taanteatro Caderno 1 (Transcultura, São Paulo, 1997) and the books Butoh Dança Veredas D'Alma (Palas Athena, São Paulo, 1995), Taanteatro: teatro coreográfico de tensões (Azougue, Rio de Janeiro, 2007), Taanteatro: Rito de passagem (Transcultura, São Paulo, 2011), Taanteatro: MAE Mandala de Energia Corporal (Transcultura, São Paulo, 2013), Taanteatro: [Des] Construção e Esquizopresença (Transcultura, São Paulo, 2016), Taanteatro: Forças & Formas (Transcultura, São Paulo, 2018) and Choreographic Theater of Tensions: Forces & Forms (Transultura, São Paulo, 2020).