Stage rabbit
Stage Rabbit is a practice to accumulate and disseminate gestures of and at; encounters – human, hybrid, and multi-species, belonging and disconnection – in cultures, cities, ideologies, and diasporas, sex and sexual expression – its orientations and constructed spatialities, and networks – in philosophy, education, and exhibition design. Initiated in 2018 by Kumar, the project is facing new grounds, conditions, and organisational culture since 2024. Behind the scenes of Stage Rabbit is a six-year friendship that runs this transnational space based on what interests them and what they can do for each other.
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Suruchi is an independent arts manager and cultural producer over 13 years of experience in digital content, communications, and arts & culture.
Her work as a constellation:
Arts + social change + education | fundraising at Slam Out Loud
Arts + research | project management and research at Art X Company
Arts + cultural producing | independent producer with movement artists and dancers
Arts + programming + curation + production | senior programming manager at G5A Foundation for Contemporary Culture
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Kumar engages in systems that examine and order the world – from form to entanglements –through performance. Her research and practice intersect corporeal literacies, neuroscience, somatics, political philosophy, movement and visual arts with disciplinary rigour of training and architectural structures, seeking to produce tensions for non-modes of learning and perception. Over the years, she has produced work ranging from research, writing, editorials, performances, mixed media installations, paintings and media art, publications, and community-centred projects across Mumbai, Bangalore, London, Fort Kochi, Greece, Goa, Utrecht, and Lisbon.
To construct experiences for new ways of perception, she regularly undergoes intensives that demand repetition such as bodywork, diving, academia, physical theatre, medicine and more that allow her to explore the research on herself. All of which feed her examination of how bodies and the hideousness of movement produce meaning, counter-normative spaces, relations, cultures, and knowledge.
Artists
Nâ–²Nâ–¼ | fundraiser
Your favorite villain.
Nâ–²Nâ–¼ (pronounced: Nany) is a multidisciplinary Brazilian artist who uses her musicality to create provocative and relentless narratives in her 20 years of career.
A master of the violin, specialized in jazz and music from hell, her stage presence is both cathartic and abyssal, unfolding from the musical ancestry of Northeastern Brazil, her homeland. She processes the effervescence of frevo, the poignancy of maracatu, and the transcendence of the Orixá chants from the Ketu and Nagô nations to propose answers in the form of sound to questions like "When did I realize I was Black?" or "How did I learn to fight for my body?". Her compositions use improvisation as a guiding thread to nurture peculiar and unforgettable scenes, leaving the audience simmering in darkness. Indispensable presence in the immigrant artistic scene in Europe, Nâ–²Nâ–¼ has shared her many types of art in stages in Lisbon, Porto, Caldas da Rainha, Hamburg, Paris and all the northeast of Brasil
Pronouns: She/Her/Your Majesty
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Katya Ev | website
Katya Ev’s performative practice explores institutional critique, issues of power and control, and the potential for individual agency within dominant power structures in relation to specific political situations or events. Ev lives in Brussels, and recently completed the postgraduate residency at HISK, Ghent, after graduating from Beaux-Arts de Paris and completing an MA in Political Science at Lomonossof University, Moscow. Her work has been exhibited at i.a. National Museum of Contemporary Art – EMST, Athens (2022), Netwerk Aalst (2021), MHKA (Antwerp, 2020), Palais de Tokyo (Paris, 2018), the 6th Thessaloniki Biennal (2017, parallel programme), Winzavod Art Center (Moscow, 2015, 6th Moscow Biennial special project) among others.
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artist-member of Jubilee (Be), PAF (performing arts forum, Fr), Level Five
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Lola/ SoundPreta
Lola, born in Curitiba, Brazil and currently lives in Lisbon and works as a producer, curator, researcher and DJ. With a Master's degree in Art Studies with an emphasis on Curatorship at the University of Fine Arts in Porto, her first degree was in Journalism from the Positivo University in Curitiba.
In her career as a producer/curator, she has organised events both in her hometown and in Portugal. Even though her curatorial focus is on music, she always takes into account current urban movements related to fashion and the visual arts. During her time in Portugal, she was part of the team at Artworks, where she worked with curatorship and project management as an Assistant Artistic Coordinator, and was involved in the first installation of artist Grada Kilomba's Barco in Lisbon. She produced three editions of a multidisciplinary fair in Porto called SONORA, an event dedicated to artistic pluralities and womanhood, i.e. women artists from diverse artistic areas such as performance, music and visual arts to take part in this event. She has also worked in Brazil and created an immersive visual installation for UNA at the invitation of DDD on April 25, 2024.
As a DJ, his sound research began in 2016 in Brazil, where his main musical influences come from. Since then, the project called SoundPreta has crossed many borders until it reaches dance floors, stages, parties and performances in cities such as Porto, Lisbon, Berlin, Paris and Ponta Delgada. In her sound research, she has focused on Trap, Grime and Drill beats, but also on variants of Brazilian Funk and electronic sounds such as Miami Bass and Footwork. As a producer, SoundPreta signs Making Love, an R&B, neo-soul, Lo-fi Trap party, and QUENGA, a Quyr, BIPOC, Urbana party; in the sense that it privileges these people, these bodies and these encounters and the urban is linked to the street, the party, the night is about following street trends.
Soundpreta is also a response to the lack of representation of black DJs and producers on the Portuguese scene
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