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IN I EXTENSE SPACE

IN | EXTENSE SPACE explores the notion of choreographic space based on the conception of space as a dynamic relational concept, suggesting that choreographic space should be constructed in an intensive space, in a transitory spatiotemporal network of procedural and unstable and, inevitably, experiential forces, vectors and tensions .

With the discovery of mirror neurons in the cortex, we know that when a subject performs an action or when a subject sees an action being performed, these neurons fire.

When we observe someone moving, motor circuits in the brain are activated that do not result directly from our movements, but rather from a mental experience of those movements.

The work proposes that the performative space becomes a co-present experience and that one becomes aware that this experience exists in any experience of choreographic space, whether this experience of participants, performers or audience.

  • Catarina Almeida
    Director
  • Cristina Mendanha
    Writer
  • Cristina Mendanha
    Producer
  • Gabriela Barros
    Key Cast
  • Peter Michael Dietz
    Key Cast
  • Paulo Mesquita
    Music
  • Project Title (Original Language):
    IN I EXTENSE SPACE
  • Project Type:
    Experimental
  • Runtime:
    25 minutes 6 seconds
  • Country of Origin:
    Portugal
  • Country of Filming:
    Portugal
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
Director Biography - Catarina Almeida

She graduated in Fine Arts - Painting at FBAUP, Porto, in 2008. In 2011, she completed a Master's Degree in Visual Arts Teaching in the 3rd cycle of Basic Education and in Secondary Education at the University of Porto. In 2013, she received a Research Grant from FCT to pursue her PhD work, which ended in 2015. During this period, Catarina Almeida was dedicated to understanding the emergence and current state of the art of the recently recognized field of research in art , focusing on their disciplinary and academic condition. In 2015, she was a visiting researcher at KuVa - Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of the Arts Helsinki and at the Royal Academy of Art/KABK The Hague, where she conducted interviews with participants of the respective PhD programs (THATO and PhDs). In 2016, with André Alves, he started a bilingual editorial project (EN/PT) entitled "Artistic Research Does", with the aim of publishing original texts by authors who develop works on research in art. She is a member of i2ADS - Institute for Research in Art, Design and Society since 2011. She is a professor at FBAUP in the areas of Art Education and Research Methodology in Art, since 2015.

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