nobrega – Izolyatsia Residency 2012

My voice is somehow a little bit greek

olya — Wed, 07 Nov 2012 11:58:20 +0000

For many years, Brazilian artist Luisa Nobrega, the participant of the RESIDENCY 2012, has studied the problem of the human voice, the gulf between the voice and the word, the language and its interpretation.

Her performance at IZOLYATSIA was started almost immediately after her arrival and lasted 41 days, 984 hours, 59,040 minutes and 3,542,400 seconds. Luisa gave a “vow of silence” and used for communications only electronic voice synthesizer – a device that removes emotions from each phrase, creates huge and oppressive pauses between phrases, forces you to rethink what you has said before you will hear anything back.

At first it was strange and interesting. Then uncomfortable. Then usual insomuch that when Louisa’s real voice sounded it was strange and unexpected to hear it and feel every word filled with pleasure and smiles, uncertainty and doubts, her hope and her joy:

“I feel that my voice is somehow a little bit greek I feel that somehow is crossing my necks like this. But I’m just starting, I’m here and I’m looking at you… Everyone is looking at me. It’s like… I made this whole situation up and now I decided to do, to start speaking again…nd enjoy it”, – Luisa Nobrega

makeevka, somewhere

salmanov — Mon, 06 Aug 2012 17:08:38 +0000

I don’t sell, I don’t buy

salmanov — Fri, 03 Aug 2012 14:25:51 +0000

“I don’t sell, I don’t buy” performance by Alexey Salmanov, photos by Luísa Nóbrega.

LUÍSA NÓBREGA

admin — Sat, 21 Jul 2012 08:42:07 +0000

Still from Conference or How to Avoid a Deluge, 2011
photo: Elizabeth Leal

Majored as actress in Teatro Escola Célia Helena (Célia Helena’s Theatre School) and graduated in philosophy at the University of São Paulo. She was also a student of the performing arts graduation course at Unicamp (state university in Campinas – SP) and of the acting course of EAD (Dramatic Arts School), University of São Paulo. Her interest in the notion of spectacle, still a dominating theme in the theatre world, as well as an urge to explore the limits of and intersections between languages led her to contemporary dance and finally to performance art. As a performance artist, she participated in such events as Periferias, multidisciplinary festival in Huesca, Spain; Dimanche Rouge, Paris, France; Spa das Artes, Recife, Brazil; Performa Paço, São Paulo, Brazil; V.E.R., Terra Una, Brazil; Trampolim, Vitoria, Brazil; several editions of the Apartments Festivals, São Carlos and Campinas, Brazil.

In April 2008, she took part in the Expedição Francisco project, supported by Funarte and Petrobrás. As an actress, recently she worked in collaboration with Teatro da Vertigem company, taking part in plays such as Kastelo, directed by Eliana Monteiro, and the scenic intervention Mauismo, directed by Eliana Monteiro and Guilherme Bonfanti. She is a member of Coletivo Catapulta, a collective of performers, actors and contemporary dancers. In January 2008 she participated in a course at GITIS, university of theatre and performing arts in Moscow, Russia. With her vocal experiments, she collaborated with a collective of contemporary electronic musicians, Al Revés (www.alreves.org), with whom in 2006 she recorded the album menagerie. She is also a writer and in 2010 published her first book, As Aventuras de Ana Clara. Lives and works in São Paulo, Brazil.

https://www.luisanobrega.com

Still from Conference or How to Avoid a Deluge, 2011
photo: Elizabeth Leal

Still from Undertow Eyes, 2012
photo: Vitor Butkus

Still from Haughtiness and penitence or the red shoes, 2010
photo: Bruno Makla.

Ventriloquist or Perhaps Everything Has Already Been Said, 2012
photo: Viviane Bezerra.