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Marara Kelly Art Show: You’ve been coming to my parties, I’ve been appearing in your dreams
Have you ever travelled on a hammock?
It’s thanks to this ancestral object that Mayara Yamada takes us into a journey through time and space. The Marara Kelly Art Show is a series of performances building a self-mythology. The artist is looking to meet Marara Kelly, her own partying and pleasure entity.
Center stage, the hammock on which enters Marara. Transformed into a mean of transportation, it travels through time and blurs borders. A scenographic object, from which stories and new worlds can emerge.
Mayara Yamada uses the hammock as a symbol of Indigenous resistance. To get on the subject of colonisation, the hammock is historically and politically contextualized. This performance is a moving piece, sailing in an ocean of subjectivities and enchantment. Faith in partying, the magic of celebrating and the ability to travel without borders.
With loud music and strobo
Duration: ca. 90 Min.
Biography
Born in Belém do Pará, in the Brazilian Amazon, Mayara Yamada is an artist, performer and DJ living in Switzerland.
Her research is mainly focused on performance art, but also engages with other media such as photography, audiovisuals, theater and music. The main themes at the core of her work deal with subjects such as autobiography and the study of the body, landscape and memory, with an emphasis on the investigation of cultural codes and symbols of the Brazilian Amazon. As an artist in transit since 2010, Mayara investigates how to displace elements of her original culture into other contexts using tools of translation and transposition in a practice she defines as trans-situ. With a lively research interest in the history of performance and the many ways in which this language can be used to develop her work, she is interested in questioning notions of recording, archiving, reenactment, presence, theatricality and performativity. Writing is also an important element in her creations, appearing in various formats such as dramaturgy, autofiction, storytelling, poetry, autobiographical narrative, stand-up comedy, letter, manifesto and so on. Currently, with the Marara Kelly Art Show series and its deployments, she crosses her stage-performative practice with her sound practice as a DJ, through a research that crosses the world of pop and kitsch, the figure of the pop star and the sacred and profane elements in celebratory events in Brazil: always questioning the identity, landscape and contexts in which music is produced and diffused, particularly in the world of partying and the different nightlife between the continents where she acts.
Credits
concept, artistic direction, dramaturgy, staging and acting: Mayara Yamada
guest actor: Frederico Araujo
theoretical, dramaturgical and directorial collaboration: Caio Riscado
artistic collaboration, assistant and stagehand: Luca Frati
outside eye: Julie Marmet
lighting design and technical coordination: Jean Sottas
set design: Mayara Yamada and Jean Sottas in collaboration with Caio Riscado and Luca Frati
music: Ágatha Barbosa - Cigarra
video: Ali-Eddine Abdelkhalek and Mayara Yamada
video editing and mapping: Ali-Eddine Abdelkhalek
sound engineer and video manager: Fabien Vigna
voice narration: Sofia Borges
video and stills: Adrianna Oliveira, Ali-Eddine Abdelkhalek, Alice Oechslin, Igor Teixeira Amaral, Mayara Yamada
costumes and props: Yumi Ikeda Ferretti
costume prologue: Juri Bizzotto
make-up: Sofia Borges
photographs: Julie Folly
graphic design: Lucas Mariano
executive production, administration: Julie Marmet, ARROI - production
production Vision Nocturne / Night Vision
Co-production: Arsenic - Centre d'Art Scénique Contemporain, La Bâtie - Festival de Genève, L'Abri - Genève, Kaserne Basel
Support: Pro Helvetia, Ernst Göhner Stiftung, Fondation Suisse des interprètes SIS, Basel Landschaft, Canton de Vaud - direction générale de la culture, Fondation Givel, Canton de Genève
Residencies: Kaserne Basel (2023), L'Abri - Genève (2023-2025), Maison Des arts du Grütli (2024), Porteous (2024), LABo Artes Performativas (2025), Maison Saint Gervais (2025)
Institutional partnerships: LABo Artes Performativas and BRECHA Criações
Acknowledgements: Andrea do Socorro, Adriana Salgado, Alessandra Mattana, Alice Oechslin, Anette Fadul, Aurea Calcavecchia, Carolina Calcavecchia, Fabio Jaramillo, Gaspard Perdrisat, Gaston Cheico, Gunnar Borges, Jonas Parson, Ícaro Gaya, Isam, Keiran Chapatte, Léa Katharina Meier, Lorenzo Benzoni, Luar Maria, Lucas Canavarro, Mara Gomez, Maria Dogahe and the Kaai theater team, Marianne Oechslin, Marion Stucky, Max Brands, Megan Orsi, Milena Pellegrini, Mira Barros, Myriam Ziehli, Nil Art, Patrick de Rham, Patrick Sampaio, Philippe Oechslin, Rapha Triginelli, Rares Donca, Roma Rio, Samia Oliveira, Sara Bastai, Tobias Brenk, Violaine Duc, Vittória Braun, Yann Longchamp, XÊPA