Carincur and João Pedro Fonseca, artists and researchers from ZABRA – Post-Human Art Research Center, present HIDRORAVE, a community art activation designed for the architectural installation created by architect Manuel Bouzas in Fontainhas, as part of the FORMA DA VIZINHANÇA architecture and art festival, included in the program of Braga’s White Night.
The performance is based on a process of capture and amplification: performative bodies in direct contact with three hydraulic devices present in the Atlas Fountain (or Fountain of the World): the fountain, the line, and the tank. From this contact, vibratory matter, breathing, and pulsation emerge: a rave constructed with presence, body, and, above all, with water not only as a natural element but as an agent of transformation.
The fountain is inhabited by the mythological figure of Atlas. In this contemporary ritual, this mythical body is reactivated: it no longer carries only the globe, but a planet saturated with ecological, social, urban, and bodily tensions. Its weight is liquid. Here, water occupies the center, as a political and sensory vector, a means of transformation, contagion, and survival. HIDRORAVE is neither celebration nor escape: it is a borderline state. A body in transition, in osmosis with the environment. As it sweats, the body dissolves; it becomes porous, collective, unstable.
The performance is the result of a collaborative process with participants from a previous workshop led by the artists, in which performative practices, live sound, and light will be explored as means of sensory and artistic expression.