Collection of Lovers
What is intimacy?
Collection of Lovers is Raquel André´s seminal research on collection in performing arts. Just as in 2016 when it had its prèmiere as now, curiosity on intimacy and its manifestations between two persons drove Raquel artistic choices. Raquel meets with unknown people in unknown apartments and together they take at least a photo that proves an intimacy.
What does an image keep? Can intimacy be listed, described or dissected? If a lover is the one who loves, what’s love then? Is intimacy only a female enterprise? Which kind of collection of lovers could emerge if performed by a male body?
Until 2020, Raquel collected 278 lovers, between Lisbon, Ponta Delgada, Rio de Janeiro, Loulé, Minde, Paredes de Coura, Sever do Vouga, Ovar, Manaus, Barreiro, Bergen, Stavanger, Oslo, Warsaw, Cincinnati, Portland, Guimarães, Viana do Castelo, Covilhã, Santiago do Chile, Buenos Aires, Angra do Heroísmo, Genebra, Dro, Dublin, Montpellier, Lima, Cusco, Porto and Setúbal. People of all nationalities, genders, ages, social and political backgrounds.
Secrets, revelations, provocations and many questions that offer us a powerful portrait of how our societies experience intimacy.
This work is part of the project Collection of People: Collection of Lovers, Collection of Collectors, Collection of Artists and Collection of Spectators.
This Collection is presented in a show, a book, exhibitions, conferences, teleteather; it reveals itself as infinite in its many unfoldings
Premier
September 2015 - Teatro Nacional D.Maria II (Lisboa - PT)
PRESENTATION IN FRENCH
PRESENTATION IN SPANISH
COLLECTION OF LOVERS by Raquel André
Created by António Pedro Lopes, Bernardo de Almeida e Raquel André
Music noiserv
Lighting designer Rui Monteiro
Lighting designer on tour Eduardo Abdala, Carin Geada e Carolina Caramelo
Sound Design João Neves
Production Missanga
Co-Production TNDMII (PT), TEMPO Festival das Artes (BR)
Financial Support DGartes - Governo de Portugal
Financial Tour Support Fundação GDA, DGartes - Governo de Portugal, Instituto Camões, FLAD, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian
Support 2017-20 apap-Performing Europe 2020 - a project co-founded by Creative Europe Programme of the European Union
Dates
27/2/2022 Coleção de Amantes, Centro Cultural Vila Flor - Guimarães - Portugal
26/10/2021 Coleção de Amantes, FITU - Montevideo - Urugay
6/3/2021 Collection of Lovers (streaming), Setúbal - Portugal
16/10/2020 Coleção de Amantes, Live Streaming - Cultura em Expansão - Porto - Portugal
25/4/2020 Coleção de Amantes, Live Streaming - TNDMII Facebook
9/2/2020 Coleção de Amantes, Temporada Alta - Cuscu - Perú
6-7/2/2020 Coleção de Amantes, Temporada Alta - Lima - Perú
12-13/12/2019 Collection D'Amants, Théâtre des 13 vents - Montpellier - França
1/11/2019 Coleção de Amantes, Festival Verão Azul - Lagos - Portugal
10-12/10/2019 Collection of Lovers, Dublin Theater Festival - Dublin - Irland
7 - 9/5/2019 Collection des Amants PREMIERE em Francês, Comédie de Genève - Suíça
29/3/2019 Coleção de Amantes, Angra do Heroísmo - Açores - Portugal
1-2/2/2019 Collection of Lovers, FIBA - Buenos Aires - Argentina
27/1/2019 / Collection of Lovers, Matucana100 - Santiago do Chile - Chile
29/11/2018 Coleção de Amantes, Festival Y - Teatro das Beiras - Covilhã - Portugal
11/11/2018 Coleção de Amantes, Centro Dramático Viana do Castelo - Portugal
27/10/2018 Coleção de Amantes, Arte em Rede - Moita - Baixa da Banheira - Portugal
5/10/2018 Coleção de Amantes (Conferência), Colóquio da Intimidade - Universidade do Minho - Guimarães - Portugal
13-15/9/2018 Collection of Lovers, PICA - Portland - USA
6-7/9/2018 Collection of Lovers, Contemporary Arts Center - Cincinnati - Ohio - USA
21/7/2018 Collection of Lovers, Cialou/Mysl - Warsaw - Poland
15-16/3/2018 Collection of Lovers, Blackbox - Oslo - Norway
9–10/3/2018 Collection of Lovers, Findlay-Sandsmark - Stavanger - Norway
3/3/2018 Collection of Lovers, BIT Teatergarasjen - Bergen - Norway
16-22/11/2017 Coleção de Amantes, Teatro Nacional D. Maria II - Lisboa - Portugal
20 - 21/8/2017 Coleção de Amantes (Conferência), Grupo Garimpo - Manaus - Amazonas - Brasil
24/6/2017 Coleção de Amantes, Centro de Arte de Ovar - Portugal
10/6/2017 Collection of Lovers, PT17 - Blackbox ET - Montemor-O-Novo - Portugal
22/4/2017 Coleção de Amantes, Centro das Artes do Espetáculo de Sever do Vouga - Portugal
16/9/2016 Coleção de Amantes, Festival Materiais Diversos - Minde - Portugal
24/7/2016 Coleção de Amantes, Festival Walk&Talk’16 - Ponta Delgada - Açores - Portugal
10/6/2016 Coleção de Amantes, Cine Teatro Louletano - Loulé - Portugal
20-21/4/2016 Coleção de Amantes, Teatro Sérgio Porto - Rio de Janeiro - Brasil
9-11/4/2016 Coleção de Amantes, Galpão Gamboa - Rio de Janeiro - Brasil
3/4/2016 Coleção de Amantes (Conferência), Face to Face - Rio de Janeiro - Brasil
14–15/10/2015 Coleção de Amantes, TEMPO Festival das Artes - Rio de Janeiro - Brasil
11–20/9/2015 Coleção de Amantes PREMIER, Teatro Nacional D. Maria II - Lisboa - Portugal
