LYSIS 2.0 — Odete e Diana Policarpo
March 21 - April 2
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LYSIS 2.0 — Odete e Diana Policarpo
Lysis is a transdisciplinar project, crossing the fields of visual arts and performance, by the artists Diana Policarpo and Odete. It’s a proposal to historicise feminist science fiction in Portugal, and it’s relationship to the fields of bioethics, paleontology and so on, exploring the intersections of art, science, power structures and truth regimens.
Credits
Concept: Odete e Diana Policarpo
Performers: Herlander, Tita Maravilha e Jenny LaRue
Production: Xica Aires
About Odete
Odete is a multidisciplinary artist working between the fields of music, visual arts, writing, performance, and theatre, born in Porto in 1995. Her writings have previously appeared in Trains Magazine, Tranfeminist Zine, and others. Her work in music includes the edited EPs and albums THE CONSEQUENCES OF A BLOOD LANGUAGE (Genome 6.66 Mbp, 2021); Water Bender (New Scenario, 2020); For those who are bored paranoid (Self-release, 2019); Mooring (Rotten: Fresco, 2019); and Matrafona (Naivety, 2018). Her performances have been presented at Teatro São Luiz (Lisbon), CTM Festival (Berlin), BOCA Biennial of Contemporary Arts, MAAT Museum (Lisbon), Galeria Municipal do Porto (Porto), and Teatro Municipal Campo Alegre (Porto). In 2020 she won the ReXform Award for performing arts, from which resulted the project On Revelations and Muddy Becomings on which her first book is based.