It’s a performance that encompasses multiple performances, as a set in a concert. Characters that unfold, especially in different places. A journey started in the 80s, where the desire to dance, even without leaving the same place (performance Il Faut Danser Portugal!, Georges Pompidou Center, 1984) resulted in songs. Since then, my performance, with a few exceptions, has been diluted mainly in the field of music and concerts. In this new Anyhere Else project, I create songs featuring various musicians, different songs in different collaborations that I present as a performance, joining the voice to the recorded music, and each song a performance situation. Thus, finally, the journey of songs returns, in this project, to the performance: a visual artist at direct speech featuring songs. The scenic space is autonomous by using video, music and the voice that sings more than it speaks, offers itself as a place of contemplation as if the performance cross-dressed as a spectacle as those who present themselves as such. With the live performance by Susana Chiocca in Where did she go? Solo performance of songs created featuring: Richard Strange, Victor Torpedo, Vitor Rua, Frederico Nunes, Anselmo Canha, Paulo Furtado, José Valente, Érika Machado, Silvestre Correia, Susana Chiocca, Luís Figueiredo, Ana Deus, Haarvöl, Pedro Tudela e Miguel Carvalhais

biografia

António Olaio, Lubango, Angola, 1963. Lives in Coimbra. Painter and performer. His performances in the early 1980s led him to music. He was part of Repórter Estrábico between 1986 and 1991, having edited Uno Dos. Since 1996, with the musician João Taborda (António Olaio & João Taborda), edited the CDs Loud Cloud, Sit on my Soul, Blaupunkt Blues. Simultaneously, he began a solo journey with the collaboration of musicians such as Richard Strange, Victor Torpedo, Vitor Rua, Frederico Nunes, Anselmo Canha, Paulo Furtado, José Valente, Érika Machado, Silvestre Correia, Susana Chiocca, Luís Figueiredo, Ana Deus, Haarvöl, Pedro Tudela and Miguel Carvalhais, having edited Anywhere Else. His songs are frequently featured in his videos and exhibitions. Professor in the Architecture course at the University of Coimbra. He completed his PhD in 2000, published in his book Ser um indivíduo chez Marcel Duchamp. Director of Colégio das Artes and researcher at the Center for Social Studies of the University of Coimbra.

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