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Posts Tagged ‘Bartolomeu Diaz’
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, […]
Cabo de Tormentoso
Dias Beach, Cape of Good Hope, South AfricaDecember 12, 2011, 7-8 am. Directed by May Joseph. In 1488, Bartolomeu Dias rounded the Cape of Good Hope, leading the way for Vasco Da Gama ten years later to find a sea route to Asia. Dias initially called the Southern tip of Africa where the Atlantic and […]