DES|OCUPAÇÃO. Arqui(vi)vo do Atelier Real em Serralves

Portuguese choreographer, performer and thinker João Fiadeiro (1965, Paris) is a seminal figure in the New Dance movement in Portugal and one of the most singular artists in the field of contemporary performative arts.

His activity gravitates around the practice, research and application of the Real Time Composition (RTC) tool, a system of composition and improvisation that has been systematized since 1995 and is now studied and developed by several artists and researchers.

He founded RE.AL Company and Studio (1990-2019), a training and laboratory art structure supported by a transdisciplinary, international programming which led to the formation of an important archive loaned by the artist to the Serralves Foundation in 2021. In the artist’s words, the research and programming at RE.AL moved between contemporary dance and disciplines such as cinema, theatre, music, the visual arts, poetry or publishing and always at the frontier between process and product, theory and practice, artistic experience and philosophical or scientific thought. Arqui(vi)vo is an exhibition consisting of an open studio in which the artist’s and the researcher’s body (of work) inhabits and breathes life into his archive in a movement that blurs the boundaries between ‘inside’ and ‘outside’, between ‘before’ and ‘after’.

An encompassing view of João Fiadeiro’s multifaceted trajectory, Arqui(vi)vo brings together film and photography, publications, essays and work notes that will allow the public to contextualize and revisit for the first time the programming of one of the most iconic spaces in the Portuguese performative scene as well as the artistic production of this author, a reference in Performance and Contemporary
Dance.