Programmes
Fogo Fátuo
Fogo Fátuo
Fogo Fátuo (will-o'-the-wisp) is a day dedicated to art in motion. Bringing together artists and collectives from diverse geographies, it intertwines folk traditions with contemporary expressions. Taking place across different locations in and around Galeria Municipal do Porto, Fogo Fátuo offers a dynamic programme that ranges from intimate acoustic performances to immersive audiovisual experiences, showcasing the breadth and richness of performative and sound based artistic practices.
With:
Angélica Salvi, Chiara Bersani, Eddie Peake, Inês Condeço, Inès Cherifi, Pauliteiros de Miranda do Douro, PRICE, Wimme Saari.
Admission is free.
FOGO FÁTUO - 14h30
Pauliteiros de Miranda
The Pauliteiros da cidade de Miranda do Douro have been around for twenty years, dedicated to the preservation of the Portuguese Mirandese tradition through music and dance. Accompanied by the sounds of bagpipes, snare and bass drums, their movements are a warrior dance that symbolises local historical moments, involving the use of two sticks with which they perform a series of coordinated steps and movements. With typical costumes, contagious energy and a rich repertoire of ‘lhaços’ — the name given to their melodies, text and choreography — the Pauliteiros’ performances have taken the Terras de Miranda, in the north-east of Portugal, to stages all over Europe.
FOGO FÁTUO - 15h00
Eddie Peake - Organ Harvest
Eddie Peake is a London artist who works with performance, video, photography, painting, sculpture, sound and installation. Through exhibition projects, he addresses autobiographical and self-identity
themes, often emphasising the relationship between the audience and the artwork, the viewer and the viewed. He explores the implicit drama within relationships, reflecting on the impact of desire, sexuality, socio-political and cultural constructions, as well as psychological states such as depression.
Organ Harvest is a football match between two teams of five players with one referee. Competitive in nature, this game, like any other, fun and exciting, or banal and boring. Played conventionally, it is not “performed”. Two simple shifts render the game unusual: one is the context of the art gallery in which it takes place and the other is the fact that all the players are nude.
FOGO FÁTUO - 16h05
Chiara Bersani - Seeking Unicorns
Chiara Bersani is an Italian author, choreographer and performer working in the fields of performing arts, theatre and contemporary dance. Her research is based on the concept of the “Political Body” and the creation of practices aimed at testing the limits of attention and presence.
The performance Seeking Unicorns is a version of Gentle Unicorn, her artistic manifesto for non-theatrical venues. The site-specific soundscape stimulates all our senses. It enhances our ability to hear and our vision becomes sharper, discovering places that need to be inhabited. The Unicorn embodies the concept of the Political Body, pivotal in Bersani’s research, according to which the body no longer testimonies to the history lived by someone but to a political entity made so by the meeting/clash with society.
FOGO FÁTUO - 5:05pm
Wimme Saari
Wimme Saari is known as one of the world’s foremost ambassadors of Joik, the unique vocal tradition and form of musical expression practiced amongst the indigenous Sami people of the Arctic. Wimme Saari’s joiks are about nature and its elements, animals, places, and concepts. But he does not actually
joik about something. When he joiks a wolf, he does not describe the wolf with words. He digs deep into the inner spirit of the wolf and becomes the wolf. Either solo, or in collaboration — where the Finnish artist combines this vocal practice with contemporary improvisation, techno and ambient soundscapes —, his performances are mesmerising sound journeys that are both reflective and inspiring.
FOGO FÁTUO - 5:25pm
Angélica Salvi
The Spanish harpist Angélica Salvi, based in Porto since 2011, is dedicated to improvisation, contemporary and electroacoustic music, exploring techniques for preparing and amplifying the harp in search of new timbres and sounds. Salvi invites us to dive into her emotional and spiritual references, using them as a guide for a dream. Starting from the acrobatics of breathing (inhaling, exhaling) and the dynamics of the tides, the artist explores the universe of repetition in a cosmic and structured invocation of trance in a magnetic and syncopated movement. In this inner, dreamlike and intimate journey, the audience is led along winding and tropical paths, in a potentially shamanic experience, through ambiguous and multifaceted sounds.
FOGO FÁTUO - 6:05pm
PRICE - I Try My Tongue (sequences)
PRICE lives between Brazil and Europe and has presented work in museums, theatres, site-specific spaces and clubs. Scent plays an increasingly present role in his practice, triggering an exploration within the politics of spaces, both social and private, delving into the conflicting dynamics that exist within these socially normative categories. His projects cross media and time, encompassing performance, sonic intervention, installation and sculpture.
In I Try My Tongue (sequences), PRICE measures reality with musical melodies, sonic plasticity and vocal experimentation, shifting the focus away from lyrics. It’s an homage to those who didn’t grow up speaking English, but were nonetheless flooded with the language. It’s like a child who repeats phonetically what he doesn’t understand, trying to master the vocabulary of a hegemony invaded by riddles he never chose.
The performance will be accompanied by the Italian musician and composer Renato Grieco on Viola di Gamba.
FOGO FÁTUO - 7:05pm
Eddie Peake - The Pervert
Eddie Peake is a London artist who works with performance, video, photography, painting, sculpture, sound and installation. Through exhibition projects, he addresses autobiographical and self-identity themes, often emphasising the relationship between the audience and the artwork, the viewer and the viewed. He explores the implicit drama within relationships, reflecting on the impact of desire, sexuality, socio-political and cultural constructions, as well as psychological states such as depression.
The Pervert is a performance built on choreographic patterns of dance and sound, inviting self-reflection on states such as depression, psychosis, obsession and desire. The piece is performed by a group of gold-painted nude dancers and a narrator playing the character “Eddie Peake”, and structured as a non-linear narrative, orchestrated orchestrated from a soundscape live mixed by Eddie Peake.
FOGO FÁTUO - 7:50pm
Inês Condeço
Inês Condeço is a pianist and composer. Over the last year she has been performing as a solo artist, exploring her own sounds and atmospheres in the world of electronic, experimental and ambiente music. At the beginning of 2024 she released her first album, Lacuna. Using voice and synthesizers, the Portuguese artist explores contrasting atmospheres that alternate between the ethereal and the obscure. From noise, to loops, to more angelic melodies, we travel through psychedelic and delicate environments, in an incessant search for the symbiosis between voice, body and the electronic world.
FOGO FÁTUO - 8:20pm
Inès Cherifi - Something I Can Touch
Inès Cherifi is an artist and producer. Her music oscillates between symphonic sounds and incisive, radical kicks, navigating between experimental music, electronica, noise and hyperpop.
In Say Something I Can Touch, the french artist unfolds dialogues between an electric violin, voices and synths, where the boundaries between each element seem to blur. The sounds of the violin and the voices take on a mutanting quality, as if they were resonating in a parallel world. Fragile, trembling, and unstable textures expand into orchestral dimensions, creating an immersive environment.