CHANGE TO THE PROGRAMME

The performance Spillovers, scheduled for 31 October, 1 and 2 November, will be replaced due to the early and unexpected departure of one of the show’s artists. Teresa Ves Liberta, a vital part of the community fabricated in Spillovers and of our lives, passed away on 3 October. In order to respect the team’s grief and in the impossibility of performing the piece in her absence, a complementary programme will be presented with other material and developments from this project.

PROGRAMME

On 31 October, 1 and 2 November, the short fiction film Spillovers, choreographed by Ritó Natálio and Aline Belfort, will be screened. The film, winner of the Casa Comum Prize at Queer Porto 2024, invites us to enter the universe of this invented world, and will be shown in a double session with another short film that brings together other filmic moments that incorporated the original performance.
The first day of the programme will see the launch of the bilingual publication Spillovers, which brings together the original text of the performance and other textualities and iconographies of this creation
The book is designed by Maura Grimaldi and drawn by Odete, and will be read collectively.

31 October
Spillovers book launch and talk with the public
Screening of the short film Spillovers and the original film interventions in the performance

1 and 2 November
Viewing of the short film Spillovers and the original film interventions in the performance
Collective reading of the book Spillovers

The creation of Spillovers stems from Lesbian peoples: material for a dictionary. Written in 1976 by Monique Wittig and Sande Zeig, it is a dictionary for lovers that seeks to draw the outlines of an emotional, sensorial and political lexicon. Ritó Natálio builds a fabrication of this iconic work of lesbian feminism, which takes the form of a multivoiced conference where a transfeminist glossary is experimented in a dialogue with the memory of the book. Spillovers are lovers, or perhaps transient states of identity; they summon the body, eroticism and somatic experience in order to deal with eco-violence and, eventually, to produce water. This film-performance, which premiered and was co-produced in Portugal by Batalha Centro de Cinema in 2023, was developed collectively and cumulatively, with collaborations from various “spillovers”, as well as an entire network of iconographies and textualities that spill over from the worldviews of this made-up community.