SerformanceP 2025 | Noel Molloy at Performance Art Exhibition, São Paulo, Brazil

Event Details

SerformanceP 2025 – International Performance Art Exhibition in São Paulo. with performance BURNING 15 AUG · PAÇO MUNICIPAL
Attention, performers and allies of living art: we begin the publications of the selected works of the 9th PerformanceP – International Art Performance Show in São Paulo!

Cards from participating artists will begin to appear on our networks and also in the gallery of NFTs from the show (link in bio).

We open with the work of @noelmolloy61, Ireland, who present us a memorial performance about an episode from 1921: the Roscommon community fire, carried out in retaliation by local security forces. The action, arbitrary and violent, echoes what so often happens in Brazilian favelas and suburbs to this day — where entire communities pay for isolated acts.

If at the arrival of the Europeans in 1500, they came from the Middle Ages and we came from the polished stone, today they say we are in the 19th century while the Global North already breathes the 21st century. We continue to burn communities — literally or symbolically.

The Christmas play is similar to commemorating the massacre of Candelaria or Vicar General, after 100 years without incident… it happens that every year we have “fires” in communities; but the numbers indicate improvement, thank God.

Celebrating this event, as the work suggests, is also a gesture of consciousness: what was done to prevent it from repeating there? What’s missing so we can do the same here?

The direction of the show and curation are done by @ismaeltrabuco, artist and master’s in performance and education, idealizer of PerformanceP since 2015, in partnership with @isaactrabuco, corporate and academic, communication specialist, communities and territories. Together, we lead this edition listening to the streets, the sidelines and the most urgent and emerging subjects.