Pedro Antunes & Miguel Moldão

BIO | VISION

An auto-theatre performance based on ethnographic research carried out at the Mercado Oriental do Martim Moniz, Lisbon. Fragments from the life of a Chinese cook, Yen, a native of Fujian who works in the market, gave rise to the creation of this short ethno-fiction. In this piece, Yen's memories of Fujian are rearticulated in a way that seeks to penetrate the surface of our own 'ethnic' performances, reconsidering modes of cultural fluidity and global connection.

Pedro Antunes is a Ph.D. in Anthropology, with a thesis on the revitalization of ritual death cults. His investigation explores processes of cultural transmission and social regeneration mediated by ritual performance and cultural heritage, both recaptured as systems of ontological regrouping. Through the production of immersive and embodied ethnographies about vital relations between the living and the dead, he deepened the knowledge of transformative imagination processes and forms of social and cosmic economy in the cultural area of Beira Baixa.

Miguel Moldão is an architect and lo-fi musician specialized in the conception of environmental structures combining sonic and spatial spheres of presence. He is developing a series of 'temporary shelters' made of harp strings, patches of moss and hay in the city of Amadora. Currently, he is working on a collection of sound pieces as a tribute to the cabbages and their gardeners in Campo Grande.