Temps d'Images

ZDB - 8 Marvila
26 - 27 Jun 19h30
85min
16+
premiere in Lisbon

Rita Barbosa

BERTIE

BERTIE is a virtual reality (VR) experience for the stage, in which one group of people meet within an immersive video game conceived specifically for this project. Thrown into the apocalyptic scenario of a multiplayer online game about to end, the player-performers use VR goggles and avatars to explore a tecno-melancholic terrain, replete with piles of digital trash and abandoned characters, and deal with questions of legacy, what it means to be an orphan and of waste.

BERTIE interconnects theatres, cities and distant audiences, creating a hybrid experience, simultaneously presential and digital, which can occur in three different cities, three separate spaces within the same city or three rooms within a single building. The show explores themes such as techno-anxiety, new forms of empathy, and gaming communities, prioritizing sustainability and
environmental conservation by reinventing models of circulation and promoting a remote working flux which reduces dislocation and the transportation of stage elements. We propose a new ethics for digital socializing: we do not reject technology but we reclaim the political space within these environments that are dominated by Big Tech.

 

Rita Barbosa

Rita Barbosa (1979, Porto) is a director and visual artist, with a degree in Digital Arts from the Sound and Image course at UCP (2002). Her work is mainly developed in the moving image, crossing film, performance and the visual arts, deconstructing processes and thinking of art as an esthetic game. She directed 2ª Pessoa (2022), an internationally awarded film, Amigos Imaginários (2019), Jogo de Enganos (2021) and À Noite Fazem-se Amigos (2016).

 

Artistic Direction
Rita Barbosa
Co-Creation
Maria Inês Marques, Rita Barbosa and Rui Lima
Original concept
Jorge Quintela, Rui Lima and Rita Barbosa
Script
João Abreu, Maria Inês Marques e Rita Barbosa
Writing contribution
Maria Leite
Translation
Luís Moreira
Performers
João Abreu, Maria Leite e Catarina Campos Costa
Voice Off
Annie Kleinhesselink e Camila Kleinhes- selink Agante
Music and sound design
Rui Lima e Sérgio Martins
Lighting designer
Cárin Geada
Screenography
Kerr Holden
Stage and costumes support
Pedro Azevedo
VR Coordenation and technical direction
Fábio da Silva Fernandes
VR Development and streaming
Rita Maia e Rodrigo Torres
3D Modeling and animation
André Silva e César Castro
Video, lighting and sound tech team
Francisco Campos e Renato Marinho
Technical support
Mariana Leite Soares, Rafael Maia, Bernardo Bourbon and Rúben Gonçalves
Subtitles
hein?!
Production
Nuno Eusébio e Maria Inês Marques
Social networking management and consulting
support
Raquel Cunha
Project Management
Pé de Cabra, Lda and el-Hey, Lda
Financial Administration
António Selas
Financial Sponsorship
República Portuguesa | Direção-Geral das Artes, Criatório 2022, Fundo Cultural SPA-AGECOP e Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian
Co-production
Teatro Municipal do Porto e Circuito – Serviço Educativo Braga Media Arts
Co-production residency
O Espaço do Tempo
Co-production of Artistic Residency Program
22/23
CAMPUS Paulo Cunha e Silva
Sponsorship
Malavoadora, Palmilha Dentada, Casa Brava e el-Hey
Acknowledgements
António Selas, Rui Horta, Mauro Herrmínio, Marco da Silva Ferreira, José Capela, Filipe Agante, Sara Barbosa, Emília Lima, Jorge Lima, Buckley

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