Catarina Miranda

Collection of video-portraits of artists, depicted as oracles, in dialogue with a suspended sculpture of a double-headed whale.
The initiative to portrait different artists, who are filmed moments after being subjected to states of immersion, through physical and sound activation, potentiates the idea of accessing the “black boxes” of these visionary bodies, promoting the activation of the parasympathetic nervous system and the appearance of subconscious speeches.
In an attempt to reclaim the flesh and hypnagogic individual hallucinations, each body is depicted a soothsayer (the one who tells the truth), returning the manifestation of their gestures on camera.
POROMECHANICS is a project created in dialogue with the dance piece CABRAQIMERA, presented on april, under the scope of DDD – Festival Dias da Dança.  


Catarina Miranda has been developing and presenting creative projects mainly for the stage, working with languages that intercept dance, voice, scenography and light, approaching the body as a vehicle for hypnagogic transformation and awareness of the present. In her career stand out pieces such as Dream is the Dreamer, Boca Muralha,Mazezam and Reiposto Reimorto, presented between Palais de Tokyo/Paris, Fundação de Serralves, Theâtre de Liège, DDD – Festival Dias da Dança, Materiais Diversos, Pays de Danses. She finished her master’s degree EXERCE at ICI-CCN (Montpellier/Fr) and her degree in Visual Arts from FBAUP; she studied NOH Theatre at Kyoto Art Center, Japan. The piece Cabraqimera and the installation Poromechanics are her most recent projects.