mala voadora

A stamp collection was the starting point. Its iconography is both theme and visual protagonist of the show. The stamps – magnified and projected on a screen – start off by being an object of philatelic and historical analysis and later become agents of novelistic wanderings, including a recreation of the Portuguese arrival in Japan. The international nature of the stamps and the colonial background inherent to some of them refer to inter-cultural or trans-cultural thematics. The show is operated live by three people sitting around a table: one handles the stamps under the scope of a video camera; another one does the narration; another one operates sound machinery.

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director Jorge Andrade . text Miguel Rocha . sound Sérgio Delgado . with Anabela Almeida, Jorge Andrade e Sérgio Delgado . co-prodution Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian - Programa Gulbenkian Criatividade e Criação Artística . presentations Lisboa, Braga, Covilhã, Porto, Mindelo (Cabo Verde), Montemor-o-Novo, Famalicão, Fundão

23-24 August 2005 . Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian (Lisboa)

15 November 2005 . Fundação de Serralves (Porto)

26 November 2005 . Festival Y (Covilhã)

7 December 2005 . Espaço Negócio (Lisboa)

27-28 January 2006 . Casa das Artes de Famalicão

March 2006 . O Espaço do Tempo (Montemor-o-Novo)

14 October 2006 . Festival Y (Fundão)

7 October 2011 . Museu Nogueira da Silva (Braga)

29 July 2012 . Festival Citemor (Coimbra)

17 April 2013 . Teatro Municipal de Bragança

8 November 2013 . Teatro Maria Matos (Lisboa)

4 February 2014 . Cineteatro de Vila Nova de Cerveira

26 February 2014 . Centro Cultural do Mindelo (Cabo Verde)

27-28 September 2014 . mala voadora, no âmbito do Festival Circular (Porto)

10 September 2015 . mala voadora (Porto)