« Angel Square VI »
( AAPA – since 2006, Provisional Headquarters )- exhibition and dramatisation
- in collaboration with Carla Cruz
- Mala Voadora, Oporto, 2015
The History of the Association of Angel’s Square Friends (AAPA), of the Angel (the sculpture) and its fall, and of the Square was interpreted by the actor António Júlio, Oporto, November 7 2015.
AAPA’s archival documentation materials were exhibited, as an installation, at the Oporto headquarters of the theatre company Mala Voadora. These materials, profuse and varied, including the two commemorative plaques, a replica of the angel’s s head, a cassette player with a recording of Von Calhau’s concert, the leaflets of AAPA s first guided tours to the site where the sculpture once was, the postcards sold on those guided tours, videos, photographs, etc. These items, staged as props in a theatre set, were the significant space of the public reading staged in collaboration with António Júlio. Thus was the History of Angel’s Square / Lisbon Square and the Association that advocates that site (since 2006), staged through the texts and objects produced by the Association in the last 10 years.
"(...) (The actor moves towards the cassette player and presses play, saying) - The Lisbon square no longer is ... the square belongs to BragaParques! (shortly after the actor stops the music, leaving the player in pause mode) - But there is an epilogue to this story, days after the picnic the first commemorative plaque is located in a clandestine dump in Gaia, an element of the local police contacts the AAPA through facebook (the actor goes to the cabinet and holds a newspaper cut) - reading (...)"
(Fragment of the play)
