PROCRASTINATION MARATHON
We say PROCRASTINATION like we say RESISTANCE.
Persistence in inattention to an unfinished task.
We say PROCRASTINATION as we say IMPROVISATION.
The gymnastics of an instinct conquered by time spent working.
We say SCHOOL like we say CHOICE.
Putting forward the hypothesis of a school of freedom.
SCHOOL of freedom of CHOICE?
Freedom to seek alternatives to productivity, exhaustion and the captivation of time for attention to work.
There is a process rich in the invention of the unknown in the act of procrastination, of making it last. Improvisers, artists, curious and students in the field of dance and performance are invited to attend the Marathon, a durational event of improvised performance and speech that may last up to ten hours, activating a set of relational premises we call the Procrastination Score.
In 2020, during the first confinement, a Reading Group was dedicated to thinking together from texts about slowing down, procrastinating, procrastinating, sabotaging, laziness, modes of production, and, of course, about the confinements and the pandemic. At the Procrastination Marathon (in other terms), also last year, we interviewed eight improvising artists. The interviews are available on TBA’s YouTube.
Sílvia Pinto Coelho with the complicity of Lília Mestre and Marta Moreira.
Photo Gallery
All the photos were taken by José Frade, Lília Mestre, Mariana Tengner Barros, Catarina Simão, and Nirvan Narvin.
Credits
A project by Sílvia Pinto Coelho,
Hosted by invited artists: Lília Mestre, Mark Tompkins, Vera Mantero, Jeroen Peeters, Mariana Tengner Barros and João Bento.
Accomplices: Andrea Brandão, Catarina Real, Isadora Dantas, Narvin Nirvan, Nicolle Vieira, Rodrigo Fonseca, Thaís de Melo.
Production: Marta Moreira, Produções Independentes.
TBA (Teatro do Bairro Alto): Anaísa Guerreiro, Patrícia Lages, Rita Tomás, Rafaela Gonçalves, Andreia Cunha, Miguel Reis, Isabel Clímaco, Inês Aragão, Francisco Alves, Manuel Clímaco.
Catering: A Sala, Daniela Siragusa.
Botanical Gardens MUHNC: Raquel Barata.
Video: João Meirinhos, support camera Rui Pilão.
Website: Carla Nave https://procrastinationschool.fcsh.unl.pt/
The text read aloud: "The Life of Plants" by Emanuel Coccia (2019)
Acknowledgements: Cristina Grande, Ana Rocha, Raquel Barata - MNHNC, Francisco Frazão, TBA e equipa, Carlos Oliveira, Ana Bigotte Vieira, João dos Santos Martins, Sofia Neuparth, Bárbara Lobato, c.e.m. - Cristina Vilhena, Ricardo A. Freitas, Alípio Padilha, Tânia M. Guerreiro, Marta Furtado, Natxo Checa, ICNOVA – Grupo de Performance e Cognição: António Figueiredo Marques, Rui Cádima, Paulo Filipe Monteiro, Isabel Barros – Balleteatro, Joana Providência – ACE Bolhão, José Laginha – CAPA, Cátia Mateus – O Rumo do Fumo, Mariana Amorim, Ana Carvalho, Alexandra Balona, Joclécio Azevedo, Elizabete Francisca, Christine De Smedt, Peter Michael Dietz, Márcia Lança, João Fiadeiro, Paula Caspão, Bojana Cvejic, Mário Afonso; Grupo de leitura Escola de Procrastinação: Luís Moreira, Ana Vilela Costa, Isabel Simões, António Alvarenga, Sezen Tonguz, Rogério Nuno Costa, Marta Mendes, Carlos Godinho, Bernardo Rodrigues, Wk Henrique Furtado, Wk Shannon Jackson, Anne Juren, Ingrid Cogne, Lisa Nelson, Julie Perrin, Joana Braga, Liliana Coutinho, Maria do Mar de Brito Lopes, Bruno Caracol, Luciana Fina, Bartholomew Ryan, Teresa Castro, Rui Filipe Antunes, Sinara Suzin, Alkantara.
Supported by: TBA, DGARTES, MUHNAC, ICNOVA, O Rumo do Fumo, c.e.m.