GrETUA is today “hit” by the intensity of “Crash”

Today, at 9 pm, GrETUA – Experimental Theatre Group of the University of Aveiro will project for the first time on the space's new screen a restored copy of “Crash” (1996), by David Cronenberg, one of the most controversial films of the 90s, in which desire, accidents and technology collide without asking permission.

This will also be the first session in which researchers from the University of Aveiro are invited to talk to the public “following the Dynamic projection that we want to maintain in the future, expanding these sessions to moments of knowledge sharing and critical thinking, taking advantage of our proximity to the university and the natural intersection between art and research”, says GrETUA. The talk will be attended by Joana Carvalho, a professor in the Department of Education and Psychology at UA, a clinical and health psychologist, sexologist and president of the Portuguese Society of Clinical Sexology. She is a researcher at the William James Center for Research, where she studies human sexual functioning, including that which deviates from the norm.

Joining us is Tânia Ribeiro, a professor in the Department of Communication and Art at UA, a researcher in digital games and empathetic playable characters. She combines art, technology and digital culture with one hand and feeds colonies of abandoned cats with the other.

«Body as political space»

Regarding the Anatomy of Transgression cycle, which will be the second session, GrETUA argues that “there are films that refuse the linearity of narratives, the modesty of the norm, the restraint of gender and the limits of pleasure” and the Anatomy of Transgression cycle “is a film cycle that investigates the body as a political, fictional, intimate and undisciplined space”. It began with a session of Portuguese “queer” short films, followed by a head-on clash with “Crash” (1996), by David Cronenberg, “a classic of drive, of the body-machine, of pleasure between steel and flesh” and will end with the poetic and sensual delirium of “The Dark Side of the Heart” (1992), where love and death dance in a spiral beyond the limits of reality.

In the foyer, before and after the sessions, a video art piece keeps the audience company: “The Kiss” (2020), by Miguel De. In a kind of subversion of the morality of the obscene and explicit sex, Miguel De builds his film from fragments of hardcore pornographic cinema, choosing only the shots of kisses. «The work winks at The Kiss (1896), by William Heise — one of the first commercial films in the history of cinema, scandalous at the time for showing an explicit kiss».

Today's session has tickets at 2 euros for students and 3 euros for everyone else.

Today, at 9 pm, GrETUA – Experimental Theatre Group of the University of Aveiro will project for the first time on the space's new screen a restored copy of “Crash” (1996), by David Cronenberg, one of the most controversial films of the 90s, in which desire, accidents and technology collide without asking permission.

This will also be the first session in which researchers from the University of Aveiro are invited to talk to the public “following the Dynamic projection that we want to maintain in the future, expanding these sessions to moments of knowledge sharing and critical thinking, taking advantage of our proximity to the university and the natural intersection between art and research”, says GrETUA. The talk will be attended by Joana Carvalho, a professor in the Department of Education and Psychology at UA, a clinical and health psychologist, sexologist and president of the Portuguese Society of Clinical Sexology. She is a researcher at the William James Center for Research, where she studies human sexual functioning, including that which deviates from the norm.

Joining us is Tânia Ribeiro, a professor in the Department of Communication and Art at UA, a researcher in digital games and empathetic playable characters. She combines art, technology and digital culture with one hand and feeds colonies of abandoned cats with the other.

«Body as political space»

Regarding the Anatomy of Transgression cycle, which will be the second session, GrETUA argues that “there are films that refuse the linearity of narratives, the modesty of the norm, the restraint of gender and the limits of pleasure” and the Anatomy of Transgression cycle “is a film cycle that investigates the body as a political, fictional, intimate and undisciplined space”. It began with a session of Portuguese “queer” short films, followed by a head-on clash with “Crash” (1996), by David Cronenberg, “a classic of drive, of the body-machine, of pleasure between steel and flesh” and will end with the poetic and sensual delirium of “The Dark Side of the Heart” (1992), where love and death dance in a spiral beyond the limits of reality.

In the foyer, before and after the sessions, a video art piece keeps the audience company: “The Kiss” (2020), by Miguel De. In a kind of subversion of the morality of the obscene and explicit sex, Miguel De builds his film from fragments of hardcore pornographic cinema, choosing only the shots of kisses. «The work winks at The Kiss (1896), by William Heise — one of the first commercial films in the history of cinema, scandalous at the time for showing an explicit kiss».

Today's session has tickets at 2 euros for students and 3 euros for everyone else.

Today, at 9 pm, GrETUA – Experimental Theatre Group of the University of Aveiro will project for the first time on the space's new screen a restored copy of “Crash” (1996), by David Cronenberg, one of the most controversial films of the 90s, in which desire, accidents and technology collide without asking permission.

This will also be the first session in which researchers from the University of Aveiro are invited to talk to the public “following the Dynamic projection that we want to maintain in the future, expanding these sessions to moments of knowledge sharing and critical thinking, taking advantage of our proximity to the university and the natural intersection between art and research”, says GrETUA. The talk will be attended by Joana Carvalho, a professor in the Department of Education and Psychology at UA, a clinical and health psychologist, sexologist and president of the Portuguese Society of Clinical Sexology. She is a researcher at the William James Center for Research, where she studies human sexual functioning, including that which deviates from the norm.

Joining us is Tânia Ribeiro, a professor in the Department of Communication and Art at UA, a researcher in digital games and empathetic playable characters. She combines art, technology and digital culture with one hand and feeds colonies of abandoned cats with the other.

«Body as political space»

Regarding the Anatomy of Transgression cycle, which will be the second session, GrETUA argues that “there are films that refuse the linearity of narratives, the modesty of the norm, the restraint of gender and the limits of pleasure” and the Anatomy of Transgression cycle “is a film cycle that investigates the body as a political, fictional, intimate and undisciplined space”. It began with a session of Portuguese “queer” short films, followed by a head-on clash with “Crash” (1996), by David Cronenberg, “a classic of drive, of the body-machine, of pleasure between steel and flesh” and will end with the poetic and sensual delirium of “The Dark Side of the Heart” (1992), where love and death dance in a spiral beyond the limits of reality.

In the foyer, before and after the sessions, a video art piece keeps the audience company: “The Kiss” (2020), by Miguel De. In a kind of subversion of the morality of the obscene and explicit sex, Miguel De builds his film from fragments of hardcore pornographic cinema, choosing only the shots of kisses. «The work winks at The Kiss (1896), by William Heise — one of the first commercial films in the history of cinema, scandalous at the time for showing an explicit kiss».

Today's session has tickets at 2 euros for students and 3 euros for everyone else.