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MXM (Mirella Brandi x Muep Etmo) und Gäste „A Good Story Badly Told“// Público Festival

The multimedia duo MXM has invited the choreographer Clébio Oliveira, the lyrical singer Katia Guedes and the performer and multi-artist Pedro Galiza to immerse themselves in the universe of Fantastic Realism together with the audience. The performance in the style of Expanded Cinema creates the scenario of a possible futuristic nature in which gender classifications lose their meaning and in which humans and animals mix. "A Good Story Badly Told" is a dive into the unconscious that alters perception and creates a dream-like reality inspired by evolutionary theories.

The collective MXM is one of the long-time companions of Acker Stadt Palast: After several productions, the house has become their Berlin base and artistic home. For the dance performance "A Good Story Badly Told," Acker Stadt Palast acts as co-producer. The performance celebrates its world premiere during the anniversary festival and brings together five Brazilian:ins based in Berlin and São Paulo.

Artists‘ Statement

Our starting point for this work is the experience with the tragic and the playful, the real and the virtual. From there, we reflect on the increasingly fragmented, divided and compartmentalized world that shatters into particles as the individual body attempts to structure itself while slowly and deeply imploding. In this project, we consider dance as an art form of the body and space, under the impact of biopolitical and selective processes, taking place in time and therefore in duration.

The piece is based on the understanding that the individual body can be a mirror of the body-space and the body-universe, where collective collaboration is the key to the construction of new perceptions.

Conception, artistic direction, light design & visuals Mirella Brandi Concept, music direction & sound design Muep Etmo Choreography Clébio Oliveira Music & performance Katia Guedes Interpreter Pedro Galiza Artificial intelligence Seth Production Manager Dora Leão

MXM consists of multimedia artist and lighting designer Mirelli Brandi and musician, composer and sound designer Muep Etmo. Since 2006, the Brazilian artist duo has been exploring the influence of light and sound on perception and narrative structure. To this end, MXM uses means of performing arts and of the "expanded cinemas" and transforms them into immersive narratives. In their works, they create environments in which the audience can immerse and is invited to experience changes in perception in order to develop new perspectives on what we understand as reality.