Ceramics & Contemporary Dance in a Shared Act of Creation

A fire has burned. A body has moved.
Now, the kiln opens — and the performance begins.

This unique artistic event brings together the worlds of contemporary art and contemporary dance in a shared moment of transformation, revelation, and ritual. As the ceramic oven opens to unveil a newly fired piece, performers respond in real time, translating heat, tension, and emergence into movement, presence, and space.

Pedra no Rim, a community-driven collective, gathers and reconstructs the overlooked pieces of our urban leftovers, those traces that lie beneath our feet or fade from memory. Their work is a tangible reclamation of place and history, knitting together the city’s forgotten narratives.

Alongside them, Oficina Zero, a contemporary dance project committed to occupying the city through the physical body, brings movement as a living force — a dialogue between flesh and concrete, presence and place.

Together, they invite you to witness a unique encounter where the built environment, collective memory, and the body’s movement converge — transforming public space into a canvas for artistic and communal reflection.

The audience is invited to witness this unfolding as a single, live artwork: matter meeting body, process becoming performance.

A Meeting of Practices

• The opening of the ceramic oven marks the symbolic and literal start of the performance

• A site-specific experimental contemporary performance unfolds in response to the energy of that moment

• Improvisation, form, heat, and vulnerability come together in a shared ritual of creation

Sustainability, Autonomy & Precarity

• What does it mean to be a freelance artist today? Between unstable income, inconsistent opportunities, multiple side jobs, and constant self-promotion, freelance artists often live in a loop of creative intensity and systemic burnout.

• This conversation opens up space to talk honestly about the economic, emotional, and logistical complexities of freelance life — while also looking at the freedoms, strategies, and alternative models that artists are inventing to survive and thrive.

Burnout in the Performing Arts

• Emotional, physical, and financial exhaustion — who’s talking about it?

• What support structures do we need to build?

Why Are We Making?
Artistic Necessity vs Artistic Market

• What drives creation today: urgency or visibility?

• How to sustain an artistic practice that resists commodification?

 
Care as Method

• How do we integrate emotional, physical, and relational care into creative processes?

• Can care be a tool of resistance?

• Creator vs Co creator vs Performer

• What is working as a co creator?

• What makes me an author of an artistic work?

• Director vs Co creator

• Alternative Economies of Art

• Surviving beyond funding systems and institutional expectations

• Models of collaboration, co-production, resource sharing

• My dreams, my needs, my wishes, my advices

• What do i miss in the community to keep growing or developing as an artist

• What can I do?

• How do I look for it?