Geografia Inutil...

Geografia Inutil... is an urban intervention that begins with a band playing songs composed by ERRO Grupo themselves and the Romanian playwright Peca Stefan, along with other classics from Brazilian and American popular music. Throughout the performance, the actors start to develop peripheral scenes, creating new relational vectors with and between the audience. Character types appear, such as superheroes, a football player, samba dancers, beggars, and Roma. These scenes expose the superificiality of these types and what exists behind the so-called "cultural identity" of a country. The piece addresses issues such as globalized cultural constructions and their implications for language, geography, and politics. The performance is the result of the Brazil-Romania Project: Bucharest-Florianópolis, which consisted of an artistic exchange between ERRO Grupo and the Romanian playwright Peca Stefan, and other cultural exchanges between Brazil and Romania mediated by ERRO and Romanian culture professionals in 2014. According to ERRO, Geografia Inutil... indicates the points of intersection between the two countries and reveals the stereotypes found in art itself, questioning the way they are used to appeal to the markets of tourism and the culture industry: "Romania is sold as the country of gypsies and Dracula; the hidden and unexplored beauty of Europe. Brazil, as the land of football, samba, beaches, violence, and robbery, where even poor people are happy." 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