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Posts Tagged ‘Sofia Varino’
Sea Dike
May 10th, 2014 | Amsterdam Island Cities are performative environments. Living in one as the sea rises is an unsettling dialogue with the sea. Amsterdam’s historic management of the Amstel river and the North Sea is an imaginative instance of how island cities and a water bound urbanism can evolve. In Sea Dike, Harmattan collaborated with […]
Far Rockaway
September 14, 2013 at 2pm, Rockaway Park, Beach 116. Hurricane Sandy destroyed much of New York’s coastline. Many communities continue to reel from the after shock of the unprecedented storm surge. Harmattan’s performance Far Rockaway is a communal reclamation of a neighborhood vulnerable to the sea. Images Courtesy of Joshua Kristal. All rights reserved.
Mar Português
Lisbon | Terreiro do Paço | Sunday May 6th, 2012 at Sunrise Directed by May Joseph Performed by Sofia Varino & Diana Bastos Niepce Mar Português is a performance of Vasco Da Gama’s feverish dreams, as he lay dying in Cochin, India, longing for Lisbon. Created as a hallucination on the Tagus River, this is […]
Chronocorpus
Digital Performance Chronocorpus emerged out of the personal histories of Sofia Varino, a Lisbon based performance artist, and May Joseph, whose cultural moorings include, Doha, Dar-es-salaam, Cochin, and the former Batavia, now modern Djakarta. Their intertwining shared histories of Portuguese and Dutch maritime pasts and their attendant colonial encounters in Asia, Africa and the Americas, […]