POROMECHANIC presents a series of video portraits of artists, who are filmed moments after being subjected to states of immersion. This project reflects about the constant and porous movement between imagery vision, body behavior and artistic creation. Seeking to define an axis between the occult interior and a skin contour, in this dynamic dichotomy the Body is seen as a cognitive entity, emitter—receiver of a multi-apparitional flux of visions. The initiative to portray choreographers, through film, after being induced to “dream-like” states, through physical and sound activation, potentiates the idea of accessing the “black boxes” of these visionary bodies, promoting the activation of the parasympathetic nervous system and the appearance of subconscious speeches.
The immersive sessions are inspired as a starting point, in multiple processes of becoming SHAMAN, where the initiatory events are widely reported through physical and mental travels and symbolic death, normally implying a descending movement, the dismemberment of the body and a final ascension. This is an ongoing project created by Catarina Miranda and produced by Materiais Diversos (Lisbon). For the first round of portraits we have chosen 7 choreographers who’s imagery dimensions are very present in their own works: Ana Isabel Castro, Ana Rita Teodoro, António Pedro Lopes, Cristina Planas Leitão, Marco da Silva Ferreira, Laura Kirshenbaum, Volmir Cordeiro.