À Margem, has as conception basis the fulfillment of the empty space, by the essential: the actor. The three actors work, each one, with an object/weapon (lantern, revolver and bottle) and are illuminated by only one rectangular focus of light. That results in an intimate performance and centered in the actions for a visceral contact with the public. The actor in question does violent physical actions.
AUTODRAMA is an urban interference through the use of four audio-cars (cars used in Brazil and some other countries to do commercial advertisement in the streets thru the installation of loud speakers into the automobile) that propagate dramatic texts, the cars dialogue between themselves and develop a series of movement in specific places of the city, extending the action to close-by streets also.
Carga Viva does not ignore the public, neither the space that it is developed. The spectacle is permeated by the ERRO research in valorize the effective communication between actors and audience, the appropriation of the urban space, including the spectator in the action, and searching for an even dialogue between all these elements.
ERRO wanted to do a big barbecue. The group prepared everything, litle meat sticks (that were exactly sirloin beef, onion, tomato and green peppers), beer, soda, pinga, lemon, wheat, bread, bricks, grill, charcoal, and put everything in two coolers in the cars to ride around the streets searching for someone to pay homage. However, the group did not want to do the big barbecue alone, wanted to pay homage to someone in his own home.
The body, as it supports Foucault, is a practical and direct place of social control, in his book History of the Sexuality, the philosopher underlines that by means of the organization and regulation of time, space and of the movements of our daily lives, our bodies are trained, molded and marked by the matrix of historical predominant forms of individuality, desire, masculinity and femininity, becoming docile bodies whose forces and energies are accustomed to the external control.
The intervention happens through the speakers of a “propaganda-car”, that wispers teachings about the art of maneuver. This car circulates the streets of a destined region of the city quoting, repeatedly, a text collage about maneuver of the book The Art of War by the philosopher and general of the Chinese army Sun Tzu.