BODIED SPACES #3

To exist, the city needs a set of structures that offer themselves, as a stage, for the theater of human activity. Architecture and Scenographic Production intends to generate critical possibilities to think the spatiality of the scenic space in its relations with the architectural practice.


João Mendes Ribeiro (Coimbra, 1960) graduated in architecture from the Faculty of Architecture, University of Porto. He taught at the same faculty from 1989 to 1991 and at the Porto Contemporary Show Academy (ACEP) from 2000 to 2001. Since 1991, he has taught planning at the University of Coimbra. He has a studio in Coimbra and has won various national and international awards and nominations.

Jorge Andrade (1973) took a course in actor training and has a degree in theatre studies – specialising in acting and stage directing – from the Theatre and Film School (ESTC). He has also taken a course in stage directing, administered by the theatre company Third Angel (Gulbenkian’s Creativity and Artistic Creation Programme) and took part in the Mugatxoan project (Serralves Foundation/ Arteleku). He founded Mala Voadora, with José Capela, with whom he shares the company’s artistic direction. Besides acting, he has also directed the company’s shows since 2004.

José Capela (1969) is an architect whose PhD thesis was titled “Operating conceptually in art”. He has been a lecturer at the University of Minho since 2000, where he currently teaches the architecture and theatre studies courses. He was one of the curators of the 2010 Lisbon Architecture Triennial. He began working in theatre at the TUP company. He founded Mala Voadora, with Jorge Andrade, with whom he shares the company’s artistic direction, and is responsible for stage design.


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BODIED SPACES 
Discursos cruzados entre corpo e espaço 
Coordenated by Gabriela Vaz-Pinheiro 

To seek to find new ways of discussing the body and the idea of living (habitus - Pierre Bourdieu), crossing discourses coming from the performing arts with voices generated in other areas, from architecture to philosophy. To address space as a body and the body spacialized, the visual field and the cultural field, in the sense that the notion of practice is crucial for the understanding of both.