HUMANUM FATUM Performance

THE "USELESSNESS" CREATORS

In the XIX century 4 inventors, worried to convince the people of their machines utilities, discovered the solidarity advantages and the risks of a society based on the technical progress.

Will they know how to handle with the mechanism implications and find a alternative to this new problem, that suppose to be a solution? Beyond revealing the human ingenious need to create solutions to nonexistent problems, “Humanum Fatum” wishes to honor all the creative imagination carriers, even those that nothing invented, but their persistent attempts, dedication and stubbornness, became an inspiration source for many others…

SYNOPSIS

“A journey through memories of a land, that finds its identity with the arrival of the steam machine…

A place here the men once, pulled habits and traditions, pressed their body and trod the blood that the earth offered them. Now the time is marked by the crush of the productivity mechanisms in series, headed for an unknown future… Consign the Machine to Men or Diminish Men to the Machine?”

CREDITS

Production: PIA Projectos de Intervenção Artística, CRL

Author, Artistic Direction and Plastic Conception: Pedro Leal

Stating and Actors Direction: Sylvain Pecker

Production Direction and Audiovisual: Helena Oliveira

Scenography: Pedro Leal, Ricardo Mondim

Costumes: Maria João Domingues, Olinda Cordas, Filomena Godinho

Light Technician: João Nunes

Sound Design: Álvaro Presumido

Creation and Interpretation: Helena Oliveira, Pedro Leal, Ricardo Mondim, Sylvain Peker