Performing Exiles
Starting in the Brazilian state of Bahia, the multimedia performance explores the history of slavery and its repercussions in the here and now. From the transatlantic slave trade to the current politics of Jair Bolsonaro, hardly anything seems to have changed: there are those who own land, freedom and identity - and those whose existence has no value.
Image gallery
Zwei Performer:innen sind über einen Stuhl bzw. eine Bank gebeugt. Sie stützen sich auf diese und scheinen sie gegenläufig aus dem Bild schieben zu wollen. Im Hintergrund zeigt eine Videoprojektion Wasser, dass schnell über flache natürliche Kaskaden
Christiane Jatahy
Based on the novel "Torto Arado" by Itamar Vieira Junior, published by LeYa
(In Portuguese with English surtitles)
As part of the Performing Exiles festival
Additional information
“Depois do silêncio” (After the silence) is the final part of Christiane Jatahy’s “trilogy of horrors”. It examines the history of slavery and how it still affects us today – given that Brazil was one of the last American countries that abolished slavery in 1888. Jatahy explores the tension lines between fiction and reality, local issues and reverberations of global tendencies in an intimate account of an unresolved past that keeps repeating itself in Brazilian ex-president Bolsonaro‘s fascist politics and beyond. Widely considered as something from another era, Jatahy connects slavery to its huge impact on today’s geopolitical realities and unrooted personal lives that manifest in an ongoing quest for territory and identity – in the hope to clear a ground for the future. “Depois do silêncio” unfolds around the fiction of “Torto Arado” (2019), the internationally acclaimed debut novel by Itamar Vieira Junior, set in the mountainous backcountry of the state of Bahia, and links this unsettling fiction to “Cabra marcado para morrer”, a documentary by Eduardo Coutinho; and to the director’s own research, based on fieldwork and interviews in collaboration with Afro-Brazilian and Indigenous communities of Remanso and Iúna (Chapada Dimantina, Bahia/Brazil).
With
Gal Pereira, Juliana França, Caju Bezerra, Aduni Guedes (Live Performance); Lian Gaia and the participation of the residents of the communities of Remanso and Iúna – Chapada Dimantina/Bahia (Brazil) (Video)
Christiane Jatahy Creation and text
Thomas Walgrave Artistic collaboration, set and lighting design
Pedro Faerstein Photography and camera
Vitor Araujo, Aduni Guedes Original Music
Pedro Vituri Sound design and mixing
João Zula Sound (Video)
Mari Becker, Paulo Camacho Editing (Video)
Preta Marques Costumes
Gal Pereira, Juliana França, Lian Gaia, Tatiana Salem Levy Collaboration text
Ana Maria Gonçalves Interlocution
Julio Parente Video System
Dani Lima Body preparation
Caju Bezerra Direction assistance
Suelen Menezes Camera assistance
Diogo Magalhães Stage manager and sound operation
Leandro Barreto Lighting operation
Alan de Souza Video operation
Claudia Marques Production management (Rio de Janeiro)
Divino Garcia Production assistance (Rio de Janeiro)
Claudia Petagna Administration
Henrique Mariano Production coordination and tour manager
