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The workshop "Investigations on memory: a practice between visual and performing arts" seeks to share the creative process of Coletivo Avuá, based on proposals and revisitations of personal and collective memory through old photographs for the composition of artistic materials, including scenic and visuals. The starting point is to try various techniques that make participants work on the different layers of memory. In this sense, we start from the principle of living memory, cyclical regarding the past, present and future. It is understood that we can activate the reminiscences that inhabit corporeality and discourses based on triggers investigated throughout the workshop. How does the artistic field open up the possibility for us to revisit and reimagine those representations of the past? To what extent can we investigate a photograph to the point of understanding its complexities?
At the beginning, a theoretical and methodological scope is presented on the construction of image archives and their relationship with our personal, collective, subjective and unconscious memories. From this introduction, participants will bring an image to work on throughout the meetings and will begin to develop the textual field to provoke the first senses of remembrance of that moment portrayed. From this writing practice, the collage technique will be presented, in which participants will be able to work on a second layer of memory, revisiting and deconstructing that image archive. This investigation will be reverberated to the scene, where small scenic cells will be formed, bringing visual research to the body. This, as an artistic composition tool in itself, carries a unique collection, encouraging each participant to investigate their potential. Finally, the installation of the collages will be worked on, their relationship with body practices and the crossings that will arise from the occupation of this new space.
