Carga Viva

Carga Viva is a street theater performance based on the texts "On the Sufferings of the World" (1851) by Arthur Schopenhauer and "Rhinoceros" (1959) by Eugène Ionesco. The work adds to ERRO Grupo's research into the power of public space to generate interactive performative games in which reality and fiction converge for the audience. In Carga Viva, passersby become witnesses to the treatment given to those who deviate from social norms. The motto of the performance is to question problems related to labor, alienation, and madness in a hyper-industrialized era, where bodies are quantified and/or segregated. The performance debuted in Florianópolis in 2002 and the version presented in the video took place in Natal in 2004, during a national tour promoted by the project Palco Giratório, and supported by SESC. Hemispheric Institute

ERRO Grupo is a multidisciplinary performance group founded in 2001 in Florianópolis, Brazil. Focusing on experimentation with urban space, the group develops performances, street theater, and urban interventions exploring concepts such as invisibility, displacement, participation, and occupation, inserting art into daily life as a political praxis. ERRO Grupo has received numerous awards such as the Santa Catarina Theater Prize (2017) - awarded by the Cultural Foundation of the state of Santa Catarina, and the Myriam Muniz Theater Prize (2014) by FUNARTE (Brazilian National Art Foundation). They have published the books POÉTICA do ERRO: Dramaturgias (2014), POÉTICA do ERRO: Registros (2014), and Persistência (2016). Their artworks and workshops have circulated in more than 60 cities in Brazil, the Americas, and Europe Hemispheric Institute