Fogo Fátuo
Fogo Fátuo (will-o'-the-wisp) is a day dedicated to art in motion, across different locations in and around Galeria Municipal do Porto. It showcases a wide range of positions: from intimate acoustic performances to immersive audiovisual projects, showcasing artistic practices centred around sound, combined in a day unfolding at different times and intensities.
Bringing together artists and collectives from various geographies, it seeks to intertwine folk languages with contemporary expressions, including soundscapes linked to clubbing culture as well as psychedelic and transcendental sound explorations.
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This project is supported by the Performing Arts Fund NL.
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Les Chanteurs d’Oiseaux, Crystal Palace Gardens – 16h30
Fito Conesa, Desvendar o ornamento – Crystal Palace Gardens – 16h50
Pedro Lima x Martim Sousa Tavares x Banda Sinfónica Portuguesa, DANCE SUITE – GMP Terrace – 17h30
Yarema Malashchuk & Roman Khimei, Dedicated to the Youth of the World II – GMP (interior) – 18h15
Michele Rizzo, HIGHER xtn. – GMP – 18h35
Caique Tizzi, Hortifruti Raio-que-o-Parta – GMP Terrace – 19h05
XEXA – Concha Acústica – 20h15
A lake by the mõõn, Templos ~ Orcas ~ Mimos – Acoustic Shell – 20h50
Deena Abdelwahed, Jbal Rrsas Live – Acoustic Shell – 21h45
Nídia – Acoustic Shell – 22h55
Free admission.
Free admission.
This project is supported by the Performing Arts Fund NL.
Partnership:
FOGO FÁTUO - 16h30
Les Chanteurs D’oiseaux
Jean Boucault and Johnny Rasse are two nature lovers with a passion for birds and their poetry. Mimicking the birds chirping became a reflex, a game, a passion. They then sought to make their gift more musical, turning it into an art form and becoming true bird singers.
Their talent has led them to take part in various radio and television programmes, including the Victoires de la Musique Classique, the Molières ceremony, La Nuit de la Voix and the Folle Journée de Nantes in 2016. They now perform all over the world, giving concerts in the universal language of birds.
FOGO FÁTUO - 16h50
Fito Conesa - Unravelling the ornament
Fito Conesa proposes a hymn to the anarchy of things, to the hardships of navigating and composing in the absence of structure in regulated times. Inspired by Alfred Jerry's famous play Ubu Roi, the Spanish artist brings together the string ensemble of Casa da Música (Vitor Vieira on violin, Trevor Mctait on viola and Filipe Quaresma on cello) which, through glissandos, syncopations and broken melodies, will search for possible sonic agreements among the sounds that inhabit the Gardens of Palácio de Cristal.
Fito Conesa's multifaceted work encompasses installation, video and the exploration of sound to reflect on the intersections between origin, history, culture and the contemporary world.
FOGO FÁTUO - 17h30
Pedro Lima x Martim Sousa Tavares x Banda Sinfónica Portuguesa - DANCE SUITE
DANCE SUITE is an orchestral work that transforms the stage into a DJ cabin. Through a continuous set, nearly 40 musicians will travel symphonically through the main genres of current dance music: from Germanic dark clubbing to light house, which has been brightening up the dance floors since the 90s.
Pedro Lima, the creator and composer of the piece, has developed several award-winning projects in Portugal and abroad. His work collapses stylistic barriers, reflecting the current moment, and combining independent and collaborative proposals. In this piece, Lima collaborates with Martim Sousa Tavares, conductor, artistic director and mediator, who has worked with several national and international orchestras. His musical creations stand out particularly in theatre and opera, and his mediation work spans across television, radio and publishing, among others. The Banda Sinfónica Portuguesa (Portuguese Symphonic Band), based in Porto, made its debut in 2005 and has a vast track record of performing works by a wide range of creators. It regularly performs at the Guilhermina Suggia Hall, at the invitation of the Casa da Música Foundation.
FOGO FÁTUO - 18h15
Yarema Malashchuk & Roman Khimei - Dedicated to the Youth of the World II
Cxema is Ukraine's biggest techno rave, organised at Dovzhenko Film Studios in Kyiv. Between exaltation and alienation, the camera moves through the dancing crowd, reporting on the intimate experience of each participant. For the young people moving to the rhythm of Stanislav Tolkachev's music, this collective ritual of abstraction is an opportunity to escape the difficulties of everyday life. However, the romantic dimension is cancelled out by the return to the city in the morning, where the young protagonists don't seem prepared to face external reality. Roman Khimei and Yarema Malashchuk have been collaborating on the border between the visual arts and cinema since 2013. Through their films and video installations, they explore the image of the crowd as a distinct character in history and culture, which they use to talk about rights and freedoms, communities and hope.
FOGO FÁTUO - 18h35
Michele Rizzo - HIGHER xtn.
Artist and choreographer Michele Rizzo brings together five dancers in a hypnotic performance whose minimal gestures merge into a unified flow. By emphasising nightclubs as spaces of communion and catharsis, Rizzo associates collective movement in social spaces with rituals of quasi-religious worship. By enhancing a kind of spiritual transcendence through dance, the artist incites the transformative power of techno music, whose repetitive rhythms temporarily blur the limits of the body's perception. The Italian multidisciplinary artist has been crossing media such as dance, performance or sculpture. In recent years, his work has been dedicated to the aesthetic translation of aspects of clubbing and rave culture.
FOGO FÁTUO - 19h05
Caique Tizzi - Hortifruti Raio-que-o-Parta
Hortifruti Raio-que-o-Parta is an edible installation that takes its title from a decorative style of mosaic that came into use in the 1950s in the North of Brazil. The roads that connect the South to the North of the country were poor, and the tiles transported would break along the way, leading to the creation of this unique tiling style. These shapes are reminiscent of fruit and vegetables considered unsuitable for supermarkets despite being perfectly fresh. The installation uses misshapen produced discarded by commerce, in a collaboration with Fruta Feita (Ugly Fruit), an initiative which aims at reducing vegetable waste. The fruits and vegetables are then integrated into ice sculptures; flavours and textures will create a multi-sensorial gustatory experience.
Caique Tizzi is an artist and chef who has been collaborating with museums, galleries and cultural events around the world to prepare gastronomic experiences and installations. The choice of ingredients, cooking methods and historical research are the starting points for creating multi-sensory narratives.
FOGO FÁTUO - 20h15
Xexa
XEXA's practice reflects the exploration of sound through a hybrid of traditional African rhythms with synthesisers, sound design and voice. A sonic aesthetic that promotes new networks of affiliation, cooperation and solidarity, through an experience that transcends the mere act of listening — "Walk into, instead of listening to, an ambience". XEXA is a Portuguese multidisciplinary afrofuturist artist of São Toméan descent. Her debut album “Vibrações de Prata” was released by Príncipe Discos in 2023.
FOGO FÁTUO - 20h50
A lake by the mõõn - Templos ~ Orcas ~ Mimos
The bagpipe from the northeastern Portugal region, traditionally made from the hide of goats, often uses the entire carcass of the animal to craft the bags. In the Portuguese folklore, there is a clear absence of references to these beings, whom the pipers carry under their arms, both in the lyrics and in the musical elements. In Templos ~ Orcas ~ Mimos, A lake by the mõõn seeks to embrace and reconnect with the animal, through a customised synthetic bagpipe, electronic music and field recordings. A ritual about our relationship with neighbouring organisms and their significance.
In search of liberation from the insidious binaries of fatalism and technosalvation, A lake by the mõõn creates ritualistic environments where raw and ultra-processed field recordings conspire with electronics and DIY wind instruments.
FOGO FÁTUO - 21h45
Deena Abdelwahed - Jbal Rrsas Live
Deena Abdelwahed reimagines what Arab club music can be through styles such as techno, bass and experimental music. Exploring the different layers that Eastern dance music can offer, the Tunisian DJ presented the album Jbal Rrsas live for the first time in 2023 at Rewire, Sonar, Mutek Montréal and Guess Who. Abdelwahed has been recovering the elements that make up the diversity of Arabic music, crossing electronic, avant-garde and experimental sounds. This presentation will feature multi-instrumentist Khalil Hentati.
FOGO FÁTUO - 22h55
Nídia
Nídia has played a decisive role, both as an individual artist but also within the artistic community, by bringing a progressive aesthetic and ethics to contemporary alternative dance and kuduro culture in particular. The Afro-Portuguese DJ and electronic producer is part of the record label and artistic collective Príncipe Discos and proposes to rethink the colonial domination through dance and musical experimentation. Her work has toured different stages and cultural spaces around the world, counting on a vast number of collaborations and discographies.