▶ performance art ◀ rituals ▶ sound art ▶ humans ◀▶ poetry ◀◀ contemporary dance ▶ butoh ◀ nature ▶
email paganpoetscollective@gmail.com
Pagan Poets Collective is a group of performance, dance and sound artists. In our performance and video artwork we play with sounds, movement, time and body excavating into poetic existence, nature and dance as ritual. We are exploring authentic movement, butoh and soundscaping our performances with textures and space. In our performances we aim to reveal the collective thought, coming into the concept with our individual approaches and then merging into one mindfield.
Catarina Neves (PT), contemporary dance
Catarina is a contemporary dancer with a classical background. She aims to develop work in which dance and visual arts can meet, using one as the creation of the other. She’s always searching for inspiration in nature, believing it to be the purest form of art, unshaken. She sees people, words and sensations as the origin of the movement. Currently she’s working on her bachelors degree at Escola Superior de Dança, Lisbon.
António Liberato (PT), contemporary dance
António is a contemporary dance artist with classical dance and theatre background, also exploring dance from the point of view of a choreographer. He has a deep relationship with nature and is constantly relating to the nuances found in the natural world, which can be found both in his movement and his great interest in ecology. António is also working on his bachelors degree at Escola Superior de Dança in Lisbon.
Julius Jokela (FIN), visual art // performance
Julius is a visual artist working through the lens of ritualistic performance with their background in creative writing. To them existence is entropy, forces in perpetual motion attempting to imitate, reflect and define otherness. Their body is a tool to navigate boundaries in search of unity. Their work a research on disconnection; how to approach the unreachable.
Catarina Marcos (PT), performance art // theatre
Catarina is a performance artist with a background in theatre, contemporary and classical dance searching for autonomy and versatility in her artistic work. She’s constantly affected by her surroundings, whatever her subcontious wants to be affected by. In her work process she aims to archive the spontaneous search for truth, whatever it reveals itself to be, for then building a piece of art from it.
Toûa Eukaryote (FIN), visual art // sound // performance
Toûa is a visual artist playing with words, sounds and motion to curate performances and videos that portray explorations of what is human. Her inspiration is sprung from the body and triggered by movement leading to data of our core and the subconsciousness. The primal urge of hers is to create and set in motion that charged matter we call art to which one can join and reflect on.
Carlos Carvão (PT//UK), musician // sound engineer
Carlos is a sound designer, producer and musician drawn to textures and spaces that sound can create, excavating to altered states through the art of soundscaping. Currently in doing his music tech top-up at Southampton Solent University.