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LABIA is the creation of a universe that allows for the extrapolation and transcendence of individual and bodily materiality, deconstructing the colonizing and binary language, proposing discourses of the tongue through its gesture, and expanding its multiple possibilities in an endless artistic and life process.

A project of a processual and transmutative nature, a meeting point for multidisciplinary artists who navigate between worlds without confining themselves to rooted forms of operation. In this space, they engage in the re-signification of their (re)(ex)istences, constructing and deconstructing multiple objects in every space and time they occupy. In LABIA, new spaces open up for unimaginable futures of existential expansion in the here and now.

Public Program

22 March, 19h30
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Credits

Conception and artistic direction
Jo Castro

Light design, sound design, texts, set and performance
Jo Castro, Lui L’Abbate and Rezmorah

Participation during the investigation
João Leonardo

Bio materials and sculptures
ROD

Video
Francisca Manuel

Financial management
Sekoia Artes Performativas

Research and artistic creation grants
Programa Reclamar Tempo - Câmara Municipal do Porto, Teatro Académico Gil Vicente, Teatro de Ferro, OSSO Associação Cultural, Asta – Teatro e Outras Artes, Câmara Municipal de Setúbal, Teatro da Voz and Arte Total

Research residences
CAMPUSpcs, Teatro Académico Gil Vicente and Teatro de Ferro

Support for research, creation and artistic residencies
Trust Collective, Devir Capa, A Gráfica, Câmara Municipal de Setúbal, A Casa do Comum, O lugar do Meio, Teatro Municipal da Guarda, Teatro Municipal do Porto

Co-production in residence
O Espaço do Tempo

Co-production
DDD – Festival Dias Da Dança

Thanks to
Melissa Rodrigues and Pietro Romani

© Jo Castro

Jo Castro (1988, Porto) Queer artist that develops projects between dance, performance, sound and voice, having presented some of their works in Portugal, France, Belgium, Germany and Brasil. With an autobiographical creative universe, beyond themes such as death, memory, and spectrality, gender issues permeate their personal and artistic experience in the search for a body that operates in states of transition – on the threshold of the boundaries of the human, without gender.

Jo Castro (PT)

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