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Poltergeist

1st Part (15 minutes)
In the first part, this work takes the form of a conference, where different manifestations of the Poltergeist phenomenon are presented through photographic documentation of mediums during materialization/incorporation sessions since the beginning of the 20th century, television reports, or examples of variations on the subject in works of fiction, such as the film “POLTERGEIST”, written by Steven Spielberg and directed by Tobe Hope, in 1982.

2nd Part (15 minutes)
In the second part, the performer physically scratches the surface of a whiteboard using hands, fingers, nails, arms and face, all amplified with microphones. The whiteboard becomes a border, a place of transition, creating a visual and sound framework to accommodate auditory hallucinations. This rudimentary technology becomes a mechanism for amplifying phantasmagoria, implicating processes of falsification, suggestion or fiction that evoke the manifestation of supernatural planes of existence and the role of the body as an intermediary producer and vehicle of the imaginary.

2013, Joclécio Azevedo, Poltergeist, Mosteiro de São Bento da Vitória. Photo: Susana Neves/TNSJ.

Joclécio Azevedo

Joclécio Azevedo (Brazil, 1969) has lived in Porto since 1990. His artistic practice revolves around choreography, curatorial work, performance and pedagogy, in search of different principles of collaboration. His work attempts to articulate the different roles that writing can assume in artistic practice, whether as a performative gesture, as a way of appropriating reality, as a visual material or instrument for activating and recording performance. He was Artistic director of the Core of Choreographic Experimentation between 2006 and 2011, member of the plenary board of the GDA (Cooperative for the Management of Artists' Rights) since 2008 and of the Board of Trustees of the GDA Foundation since 2010. Resident artist of Circular Associação Cultural from 2012 and coordinator of the association's educational program from 2018, he is currently pursuing a Ph.D in Contemporary Art at Colégio das Artes (University of Coimbra). (www.nenhum.org)