Based on a week in creation residency set to explore the resonances of their worlds, Caty Olive and Odete present the result of this first meeting and collaborative project. The organic electronic meanderings, the dissolving borders in Odete’s music, the poetry and trans-performativity in her work, meet the breathing in Caty’s lighting systems and ever mutating light bodies.

An elemental empathy between the work of these two artists runs in the transformative aspects of their creative approaches, one that goes against rigidity and essentialist currents, one that can be found within the particular strain of ecology of bodies and energies that transpires from their work. It inhabits realms where matter and spirit do not delve in dualistic existence but rather in transient permutations of intimate entanglement and fusion, territories bearing prismatic visions, fostering the abilities of light and sound/music to transform, transgress and transfigure monolithic perspectives. 

Furthermore, Odete and Olive choose to evoke the character of the castrati and to explore their vocal and aesthetic universe. They propose imagining that these castrati could be a form of fiction in a place whose contours remain fluid, whose dimensions vacillate, which transforms. A space that absorbs the bodies that inhabit it. A place where history might give way to fantasy and speculation, where the baroque dimension of a body is within it, remaining fugitive to the demands for extra clarity in present times.

Created and performed by:

Odete and Caty Olive

Dramaturgical support:

Cru Encarnação

Musical composition support:

Herlander

Co-production:

Fundação de Serralves

BoCA – Biennial of Contemporary Arts

La Ménagerie de Verre, Paris

Support:

This show is presented with the support of the Institut Français and the MaisFRANÇA project, a season conceived by the Institut Français du Portugal with the support of patrons Claude & Sofia Marion Foundation, JC Decaux, BNP Paribas, Mexto and Credibom.