Márcio-André: Suspension
| 2012. Feb. 24. | 19:00 |
With Suspension, Márcio-André creates sounds live, using an electric violin suspended in space by elastic cords, microphones and other objects hung from the ceiling. Suspension, designed originally for the Eugenio Granell Museum in Spain, offers spatial streamlined relationship of the audience with poetry, approaching the art installation. The audience, inserted within the performance space, with his own body, gives different shapes to the sound produced. As each viewer is in a different relationship with the many speakers around the room, each person sees his own spectacle.
Márcio-André, writer, sound and visual artist was born in Rio de Janeiro in 1978.
Author of four books of poetry and essays, he has collaborated with newspapers including O Globo, Jornal do Brasil, O Estado de Minas and with numerous brazilian and international magazines, having his works translated into eight languages. He also has poems published in the anthologies. His work, both literary and performative, is studied in several countries like USA, Finland, Portugal and Iran.
He has taught advanced courses in creative writing and sound poetry at the University of Coimbra and the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. As a translator, he published texts of Gherasim Luca, Gilles Yvain, Serge Pey, Mathieu Bénézet, Hagiwara Sakutaro and Forrest Gander. In 2008, he received the National Library Foundation Scholarship, for the book of essays Pética das Casas (Poetics of Houses) and in 2009, was resident poet in Monsanto, Portugal. He is also one editor with Confraria do Vento (Brasil/ Portugal) and curator of Cidade aTravessa, performative and literary event that takes place in Lisbon, Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo.
