The young actor and stage director André e. Theodosius presents a stage reading of Gioconda and Si-Ya-U, by the prominent Turkish poet Nazim Hikmet.
SMALL AUDITORIUM - EDUARDO PRADO COELHO ROOM
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"In the same year (1924) the young revolutionary Emi Siao is deported from Paris, the famous Giaconda disappears from the Louvre Museum. According to the Nazim Hikmet’s manifest-poem, it has left to China to meet its "almond eyed” lover. It is true: Gioconda sets free from the passivity of the museum culture and demonstrates to be a passionate troublemaker. To spoil the suspense of this poem – which in about thirty pages confronts us with the dialectics poetry vs. politics, fantasy vs. revolutionary fervour, fiction vs. autobiography, after all a poem permanently questioning the true capacity of art regarding social transformation – I will reveal the end: RELAXEM: the smile of Giaconda is kept. Is not the smile of someone who satisfies, but a smile of someone setting out happy. SHIVER: Gioconda’s hands become different. They are no longer ink stained hands, but blood stained hands."
ANDRÉ E.TEODÓSIO
Translation and reading by ANDRÉ E. TEODÓSIO
© KASIMIR MALEVICH