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FF>>DOSSIER - feitoamãos/F.A.Q.
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After nearly three months away, we are back with Associação Cultural Videobrasil’s FF>>Dossier. Over the last few months we have put all our effort into developing new interfaces for the Associação’s website, as well as into making Videobrasil Online available for research, and promoting the 15th edition of the Videobrasil International Electronic Art Festival, all of which delayed the 13th edition of FF>>Dossier. Our new interface enables easier navigation, access to information and to past editions. In this issue we will focus on the work of the feitoamãos/F.A.Q. collective. A spin off of the “feitoamãos” project, the group started out by fostering and supporting group efforts in audiovisual production,
and later began developing presentations featuring live video and audio manipulation
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feitoamãos/F.A.Q. is composed of André Amparo, André Melo, Claudio Santos, Lucas Bambozzi, Marcelo Braga, Ronaldo Gino, Rodrigo Minelli, and Vítor Garcia, who often invite other artists to work with them. Since 2001, the group’s presentations have been establishing tense, productive dialogues between sound, image, and audience participation. From their debut to their most recent presentation, their work is characterized by formal experimentation with image and with possibilities of occupying-exploring space, as well as by seeking reference in concepts from various fields, in order to widen their pieces’ typical polysemia. The strength of this group lies in the fluidity of the images they exhibit in several screens or projection supports, approaching contemporary phenomena from many different angles. This aspect can be easily identified in many of their pieces, such as Monstruário ilustrado [Illustrated Monstruary] (2002), presented at Itaú Cultural, São Paulo, as part of the Interatividades [Interactivities] event. In this presentation, the group worked along with Chico de Paula, one of its founders and a frequent collaborator, plus other twenty artists, in order to recreate a contemporary version of middle-age bestiaries–allegorical compilations of fable or real animals–in a space that invites audience to immersion, joining projections, set design, and music together.
Other pieces, such as É (in)possível estar em 2 lugares ao mesmo tempo [It Is (In)possible to Be in 2 Places at the Same Time] (2003), use the space and landscapes concepts of geographer Milton Santos’ theories as a reference. This project included two systems for the audience to interact with the images created by the group. One such system was developed by José Cabral, Fábio Araújo, and Rodrigo Marcandier, and the other was created by Lucas Bambozzi and Chico de Paula. These interactive processes enabled audience immersion, promoting a city reconstruction of sorts, in a show of urban scenes that subverted basic notions of space and landscape.
At the 15th Videobrasil International Electronic Art Festival, the collective presented “Carro-Bomba”, a performance featuring live image and audio manipulation that deals with the “widespread feeling of an imminent attack”. Noise, smoke, images of an exploding vehicle, and sounds comprise this work by F.A.Q..
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