apap production studio Berlin: Time to Meet - Raquel André “Collection of Artists“
Open Studio
by
Raquel André
"Time to Meet" is a series of open rehearsals and discussions, a meeting place for exchange and feedback on artistic processes, this time with Raquel André.
Collection of Artists is the third movement of the Collection of People. Is it possible to access an artist through learning a moment of his/her creation? Can one access their story? Raquel uses her own body as an archive, learning and keeping the arts of others so she can tell their stories. She creates a collection that deals with each artist, their different practices, disciplines, conceptual perspectives and work tools. In the collection, one also finds personal desires, thoughts and ways of being and their relationship with their artistic practices and biographies. By collecting artists, Raquel navigates frontiers of reality and fiction, fantasy and possibility, daily life and artistic life, seeking to collect the ephemeral, and transform it into something concrete and palpable, through an artistic and poetic medium. In 2018 and 2019, Raquel André collects artists in partnership with various institutions in various cities around the world: Bergen, Salzburg, Faro, Warsaw, Cincinnati, New York, Loulé, Berlin, Orléans, Porto, Montemor-o-Novo and Lisbon. Premiere 2019
Creation: António Pedro Lopes, Bernardo de Almeida and Raquel André Executive Production: Missanga Photo: Tiago de Jesus Brás Coproduction: Teatro Nacional D.Maria II, Festival Verão Azul - casaBranca / Teatro das Figuras / Cine-Teatro Louletano, BIT Teatergarasjen, O Espaço do Tempo, Cincinnati Contemporary Arts Center, Cialou / Mysl, Tanzfabrik, FITEI Support: SZENE, CDN Orléans Financial Support: Direcção Geral das Artes - Ministério da Cultura, Governo de Portugal
Raquel André
Raquel André was born in Caneças (Odivelas - Portugal) in 1986. She started her artistic path as long as she remembers. One day she took a box full of handwritten letters, a correspondence from a family in the 70’s, 80’s and 90’s, and from then she made her first performance in 2009. Since then she started having an interest in collecting. Specially in the idea of how to collect in the Performing Arts, about which she wrote a master thesis at University Federal of Rio de Janeiro (2016) mentored by researcher and performer Eleonora Fabião with a scholarship by Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon. She studied in the Theater and Cinema School of Lisbon, and then worked with several portuguese artists from different artistic languages, she made television, and showed her own performance work in Portugal, Spain, Poland, Cuba, Argentina and Brazil. She’s currently an APAP artist under the support of Teatro Nacional D. Maria II (Lisbon-PT). She lives in the Rio-Lisbon bridge.
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