Programm
Sara Corvo e Telmo Branco
When do we become our own oppressor? When do we become the oppressor of others?
FLÓBÉR is an activist performance that addresses the symbiotic relation between family and nation-states in the proliferation of dictatorial and colonial practices. This interdisciplinary work combines autobiographical theater, contemporary dance, sound design and documentary film to explore the concepts of colonial love and internalized oppression.„Internalized oppression occurs when an oppressed group accepts the methods and incorporates the oppressive ideology of an oppressor group, contrary to its own interests.“ Pheterson, Gail (1986)
FLÓBÉR explores the perspectives of two white, queer nonbinary people, one Portuguese and one US American, formerly living in Portugal. This intercontinental dialogue allows the performers to reflect the nation’s instrumentalization of the family unit, within two different cultural confinements.
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Weitere Termine
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Funding
Residency support: Polo Cultural Gaivotas I Boavista and Estúdios Victor Córdon
Financial Support: República Portuguesa – Cultura / Direção-Geral das Artes and Comissão
Comemorativa 50 anos 25 de Abril; Fundação GDA; and DISTANZEN Solo – Dachverband
Tanz Deutschland und NEUSTARTKULTUR. -
Language
English and Portuguese, with English subtitles.
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Categories
Theater, Dance, Performance
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Content Note
This work includes the use of an unloaded airsoft gun with the safety lock on. Airsoft guns are used in sports games for simulations of police, military or purely recreational operations with pressure weapons that fire non-lethal plastic projectiles. We reinstate that the gun is not loaded, never directed at the public nor fired. Some brief parts of the text reference interpersonal and colonial violence, but never in detail.
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Credits
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Creation, Sound Design, Production and Performance
Telmo Branco -
Performance and co-dramaturgy
Ren Mauney -
Financial management
ORG.I.A - ORGANIZAÇÃO, INVESTIGAÇÃO E ARTES - ASSOCIAÇÃO -
Promotional Video
Vitor Hugo Costa / Metafilmes, Sergio Brilha and Telmo Branco -
Promotional Photography
Sara Corvo e Telmo Branco -
In collaboration with
Goethe-Institut Lisboa, Teatro Papa Léguas, Esmae - IPP, FIDANC - CDCE, Activist group Panteras Rosa, and Feminist Collective As DEsaFIantes. -
Interviewees
Sónia Latas, Odete Ortiz, Miguel Branco and Rui Brinquete. -
Acknowledgments
Filipa Matta, Julia Klein, Sergio Vitorino and Diana Santos
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