Entering AT HOME is only possible because someone opens the door for us. And it is not just one door, but several, on several floors. There are also several hands that welcome me to this new possibility of inhabiting this space, in many different ways. Hands and arms that welcomed me in the past and with which I have shared many moments to this day.

_**ABRIR A PORTA**_
video installation by Daniel Matos

Bar, Estúdios Victor Córdon
*Free entrance

Events

large_Abrir a Porta - Daniel Matos.JPG

medium_Abrir a Porta - Daniel Matos.JPG

small_Abrir a Porta - Daniel Matos.JPG

thumbnail_Abrir a Porta - Daniel Matos.JPG

Abrir a Porta - Daniel Matos.JPG

A entrada EM CASA só é possível porque nos abrem a porta. E não é apenas uma porta, são várias, de vários andares. Também são várias as mãos que me recebem nesta nova possibilidade de habitar este espaço, das mais variadas maneiras. Mãos e braços que me receberam outrora e com os quais partilhei vários momentos até aos dias de hoje.

_**ABRIR A PORTA**_
uma instalação de vídeo de Daniel Matos

Bar, Estúdios Victor Córdon
*Entrada livre

Abrir a Porta — Daniel Matos

At Home is a program designed for creators working in the field of dance, inviting them into the EVC to develop their work over the course of a season. Having welcomed Miguel Moreira, João dos Santos Martins, Jonas & Lander, Marlene Monteiro Freitas, Teresa Silva, Victor Hugo Pontes, and Sofia Dias & Vítor Roriz, we now invite Daniel Matos, who will be sharing with us a series of initiatives that characterize his unique career.

_Busting down the door, opening the windows, rummaging through drawers, scrubbing linoleum with your hands, licking banisters, falling backwards down the stairs, getting stuck in the lift, singing in the lift while you're stuck, taking hot showers in winter and cold showers in summer, shouting at the draughts and staring endlessly at the river._

_They welcome me HOME this year, and being at home, for me, means being alone - very alone - and accompanied - as accompanied as possible._

_I have always enjoyed being home alone, being able to play different music in each room, walking with the lights off and feeling my way through the corridors at night, finding comfort in the silence like a cosy blanket and, above all, having the space and time to think about what I do or try to do. That is why, throughout this year, I have been dedicating myself to two authorial projects that branch out into different ways of thinking and making possible dances: **A Luminosa Violência da Perfeição**, a large-scale stage creation that seeks to understand how to contemplate an absolute pause in the middle of a hurricane driven by horses and mares, and **PESO PESO PEITO**, an authorial publication in collaboration with artist João Catarino, which starts from the play Pedra, a Mágoa (The Stone, the Sorrow) and explores in book form the family relationships of the performers who were part of the processes of creating and presenting the show, delving into photographic and written landscapes of each person's intimacy, compiled in a physical archive collection._

_But being AT HOME also means welcoming people into your home and making it a space for sharing and socialising, for dinners filled with thoughts and ideas that don't fit inside living rooms. That is why I invite some of the artists I admire to share proposals and practices in this AT HOME, clearing the space, pushing the furniture against the wall and joining hands so that we can all feel butterflies in our stomachs together: from jams to music listening, from conversations around the table to a film session that can be a pyjama party, if we so desire._

_All this while always opening the door to anyone who wants to come in, take a peek, stay and leave. All this so that the occupation is as real as we are, who do not exist, if we want to.
Being a body at home in a house that is the body._

_It's so good to be AT HOME._

Daniel Matos


Abrir a Porta — Daniel Matos

Artistic collaboration, video and post-production

With