3 to 12 jun 2024
creative residency
Performing Arts Centre of the Algarve CAPa
labia
Jo Castro
Portugal
concept & artistic direction Jo Castro
ligh design, performance and landscape sound Jo Castro, Lui L’Abbate e Rezmorah
process participation João Leonardo
costumes and scenic sculptures ROD
video-instalation and process audiovisual record Francisca Manuel
research grants Programa Reclamar Tempo_ CAMPUSpcs, Teatro Académico Gil Vicente e Teatro de Ferro
research residencies CAMPUSpcs, Teatro Académico Gil Vicente e Teatro de Ferro
support for artistic creation and residencies Trust Collective, Devir Capa, A Gráfica, Câmara Municipal de Setúbal, Rua das Gaivotas 6, O lugar do Meio, Teatro Municipal da Guarda, Teatro Municipal do Porto
creative grants OSSO Associação Cultural, Asta – Teatro e Outras Artes e Câmara Municipal de Setúbal
residency and co-production O Espaço do Tempo
LABIA is an autobiographical research project of a permanent procedural nature, which never settles but rather transforms at every moment and space it occupies.
Stemming from non-binary identity as an act of destabilizing one’s own identity, this project is a meeting of multi and transdisciplinary artists who navigate between worlds without confining themselves to rooted forms of operation, in a coexistence and resignification of thei (re)(ex)istences.
Aligned with an intersectional transfeminist thought, LABIA proposes the urgency of becoming – collectivities while preserving subjectivities and a dehierarchized relationship among them. A universe that enables transcending individual and corporeal materiality, undoing the colonizing and binary language, proposing discourses of language from its gesture, expanding its multiple possibilities, in an endless artistic and life process.
Finally, other meanings are created and spaces are opened for encountering an aesthetic of crossing towards imaginable futures of existential expansion here and now.