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Performance and digital work 
in Collaboration with Alice Nogueira


2020/2021

Project.Fail was born shortly before Covid-19, but grew within the environment of isolation, physical and mental health issues, and questions on the humanitarian crises that the pandemic brought.

This work was developed first an experimental digital project on Youtube, and later as a theater performance.

Project.Fail

Live performance

In day-to-day understanding, to fail is to have a lack of success, deficiency of desirable qualities or being in a state of “not functioning”. To fail would also stand for disappointing oneself or others, and not achieving someone’s goals.
To fail is therefore a consequence of a pre-existing right or wrong.

Project.Fail is a piece composed by two humans, one machine and multiple viewers.
Somewhere on borders between the virtual and analog worlds, the performers behave sometimes as humans and sometimes as avatars in a game of losing/gaining power and control.
By relating to each other as well as to the invisible machine, they propose a situation for questioning the ways humanity lives and the choices that brought us to our current crises and failures.

CREDITS:

Concept and Performance: Alice Nogueira and Ana Clara Montenegro
Dramaturgy: Alice Nogueira
Voice off: Sven Rausch
Camera and video-editing: Talisa Frenschkowski and Simon Lenzen
Light design: Carina Premer
Sound-recording: Jannis Wulle
Sound-editing: Felix Schwarzrock
Assistant director of filming: Rodrigo Andreolli
Photo: Talisa Frenschkowski

Premiere in 2021 in collaboration with StudioNaxos (Frankfurt)

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Digital work

Winner of the 34° STUTTGARTER FILMWINTER
Category Network Culture - Expanded Media Prize

A digital work created during the COVID-19 pandemic.
This is an expanded media project carried out on the interfaces between theatre, dance and video art.

It consists of a series of videos on Youtube, each of which is a scene from a fragmented dramaturgy that will be developed by the audience that watches it.

At the end of each video the viewer can choose, among some options, what she/he/they would like to see next. It is, therefore, an interactive work.

CREDITS:

Concept and Creation: Alice Nogueira and Ana Clara Montenegro
Off Voice: Sven Rausch