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Holland Festival: Spellotics

Flavio Orzari (BR)
Sun 23 Jun ’24 13:30
This art installation invites us to jointly look for magical solutions to socio-political challenges through the imagination.
Sun 23 Jun ’24
13:30
  • Sun 23 Jun ’24
    13:30
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Brazilian artist Flavio Orzari’s Spellotics has people come together to discuss political dilemmas. Orzari invites the audience to suggest magical transformations for political oppressions with him, not in a dry debate, but by telling stories and through practices for the imagination.

In groups of no more than three, visitors are invited into the installation to take part in a short meditation and writing ceremony. This ritual sees the imagination activated in order to generate energy, like with a magical spell. The installation is part of ongoing research in which Orzari raises questions about the socio-political scars that exist in society throughout the world.


All material created with the participants will be part of a collection that storyteller Orzari can draw on for future tales.

  • Duration: 20 min.
  • Language: English & Dutch
  • This DIY programme is free of charge.
  • You can choose a time slot and join if enough spots are available. 
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About the maker 

Flavio Rodrigo Orzari Ferreira, 41 years old is a gay, Brazilian artist who lives in Brussels. His work as a performer, theatremaker and psychopedagogue focuses on storytelling. He holds a master's degree from Brussels' École de Recherche Graphique in speculative narration, a group of fictional storytelling techniques that can be used to unfold new worlds awakening a taste for what's possible (not only) , and in videography. His form of storytelling finds its place within dramaturgy and visual art.

He has been a performer, director and light designer in plays as Accusation against an Actress (2014-2017), and Nightfalls (2010-2011). His latest works as a performer and dramaturg were the solo The Ghost Scar (2019-2022) and the short movie Fantasma Pédé (2022). In recent years, he published articles in magazines devoted to art, education and artistic research. Since 2004, he has been working as a pedagogue and art professor.

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