Lamento do Ciborgue with Miguel Bonneville + Isadora Alves

Performing conference

Pousada de Juventude de Vila do Conde - Palacete Melo

24 Sept (Sat) | 16:00
M/16 | Free entry

The Cyborg’s Lament edition is a project in itself, complementary, however, to the performance The Importance of Being Alan Turing. This is an artist's book composed of original texts written during the creation process of the performance – an “emotional technology project”, in which a close look at the body and its encounter with electronic music was developed; corporeal experience + mathematical discipline = erotic potency.

Texts, editing, and revision: ~~Miguel~~ Bonneville | Reading: Isadora Alves | Graphic Design: ilhas studio | Illustrations: Tomás Queiroz (baseadas no plano para a hipótese de Riemann de Alan Turing) | Printing: ACD | Edition: 100 exemplares | Support: Fundo Cultural SPA | Production: Teatro do Silêncio

Circular's Acknowledgments: Fundação Casa da Música

www.miguelbonneville.com | teatrodosilencio.pt

~~Miguel~~ Bonneville (Porto, 1985) introduces us to autofictional works focused on the deconstruction and reconstruction of identity. Their work is transdisciplinary and is, therefore, presented in a variety of formats: performances, drawings, photographs, films, music or artist books.

Their work has been presented in art galleries, theaters and non-conventional venues in Portugal and abroad, namely the serial projects Family Project, Miguel Bonneville, and The Importance of Being.

In 2015 they won the Rede Ex Aequo Award for the performances Medo e Feminismos

(in collaboration with Maria Gil), and The Importance of Being Simone de Beauvoir.

They studied Drama at Academia Contemporânea do Espectáculo (2000-2003), having complemented their studies with the following courses: Visual Arts (Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, 2006), Autobiographies, Life Stories and Artist’s Lives (CIES- ISCTE, 2008), Archive – Organization and Maintenance (Citeforma, 2013), Cyborgs, Sex and Society (FCSH, 2016) and Philosophy and Art (Mute, 2017), among others. Bonneville was part of the artistic nucleus of contemporary dance production company Eira (2004-2006) and contemporary art gallery 3+1 Arte Contemporânea (2009-2013). They have participated in artistic residencies such as Sítio das Artes/Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation (Lisbon, 2007), Homesession (Barcelona, 2008), Mugatxoan/Serralves Foundation (Porto, 2010), Transeuropa2012 (Hildesheim, 2012), Arts Printing House (Vilnius, 2013), Arte y Desarrollo (Madrid, 2014) and La Box (Bourges, 2018), among others.

They sporadically teach authorial performance composition in different national and

international structures.

They are responsible, alongside Maria Gil, for the artistic direction of Teatro do Silêncio.

Isadora Alves has a degree in theater from Escola Superior de Teatro e Cinema. She also studied dance at Forum Dança and Sculpture at the University of São Paulo.

She works regularly as an performer, having collaborated with artists such as Maria Duarte, Bruno Humberto, Rui Paiva, Joana Braga, ~~Miguel~~ Bonneville, Elmano Sancho, António Pires, ADR, Diogo Baldaia, Jan Brokof, among others.

She created the performances “-V- (Primeiro Gesto)” (2019) and “Mas onde está a espada?” (2020/21).

Her first creations are site-specific compositions, where light has been the privileged material of study in permanent dialogue with time.

She has a scholarship from Centro Nacional de Cultura to write her next project.