Desvio
Desvio is a nomadic street theater performance in which the audience takes a guided walk around the city during which they are told that a murder will take place--though in fact it never does. The work plays a disorienting game that blurs reality and illusion, with the concrete city center as its backdrop. It builds the fictional performative narrative with interactions between real architecture and pedestrians. The violent theme of the performance creates an uncomfortable and dreamlike atmosphere, where a violent death is always being announced but never actually happens. The performance premiered in October 2016 and was a nominee for the Funarte Myriam Muniz Theatre Award. The performance also received support from Petrobras. 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