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The artists and filmmakers, who represented Brazil at the 58th Venice Biennale, collaborated

on this film, produced for Manifesta 13. The film is set in two locations: a 17th century

country estate in southern Ireland and a 19th century bourgeois villa in the center of Marseille.

These residences are now museums that welcome tourist groups, who carefully follow the

stories of the guides. The shots show the interiors and the attentive gazes of the visitors, who

reveal themselves to be performers ready to fill the rooms with music and dance. The language

is a hybrid between documentary and fiction, in which the boundary between performance and

video is thin and blurred. Among the architectures of the sumptuous villas, performances become

a writing instrument of the past, the music and songs temporarily occupy the space, thus

opening up to the imagination. The notes of the bagpipes, the violin and the Latin dance Seannósci

refer to the Irish tradition. These sounds then leave room for the notes of a mizwid, some

percussion and Berber qraqeb (castanets) accompanied by songs in Arabic. The film is a tribute

to the work of Bob Quinn, the Irish director who in the 1980s produced Atlantean, a quadrilogy

in which he investigates the role of North African cultures in the formation of Irish culture.

Bárbara Wagner & Benjamin de Burca

Wagner (Brasilia, 1980) & de Burca (Munich, 1975) have been working as a duo since 2011. In 2019 they represented Brazil at the Venice Biennale. Recent solo exhibitions include: Museo Jumex, Mexico City (2019); Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (2019). Their works have been exhibited in institutions and international festivals, including: Manifesta 13 (2020); Berlinale; Locarno; Bienal de São Paulo (2016); Skulptur Projekte MuĚnster (2017).

Selected Filmography
2019 Swinguerra 2018 Rise 2017 Terremoto Santo; Bye Bye Deutschland! Eine Lebensmelodie 2016 TEstás vendo coisas