Lourenço Soares

with Living with a Couple & Jerry the Cat

live performance, two-channel video installation; 2022; Leonor Arnaut (voice), João Carreiro (guitar), João Pereira (drums), Jerry the Cat (percussion); Lourenço Soares (video)

After an invitation by Living with a Couple, and during an artistic residency in Portugal, we developed a narrative framed by sonic chapters and speculative geologies that looked at the relationship between dinosaur representation and politics. The work reflects on how political ideologies have influenced the history of paleoart especially in legitimizing neoliberal imaginaries in narratives of power, the free market, obsolescence, and extinction.

The work was first presented at Teatro do Bairro Alto in Lisbon.

Photo credits: Maria Bicker

Performance at TBA Lisboa
Performance at TBA Lisboa
Performance at TBA Lisboa