18/11, ter, 20:00h, 60 ‘ | Biblioteca Mário de Andrade
Puppet Hospital is a performative conference that explores the performativity of identity through lived experiences of disability and posthumanist perspectives. Created by Thomas Brennan (Sweden), Gustavo Sol (Brazil), and Miguel Noya (Venezuela), the piece transforms the traditional conference format into a hybrid territory of speech, body, and technology.
Inspired by the tensions between identity, loss, and reconstruction, the performance reflects on collective resilience in a world marked by war and rebuilding. The dramaturgy is structured around the “Threads of Control,” a visual and symbolic metaphor that connects the performer to his prosthesis and to the audience.
A multimedia interface based on artificial intelligence, developed by Gustavo Sol, captures the muscular activations of Brennan’s residual leg and translates them into electronic soundscapes composed by Miguel Noya. Through bodily connections, sounds, and images, three movements emerge — Connection, Tension and Release, and Reconfiguration — intertwining body and machine as gestures of reconstruction and resistance.
Production Credits
Puppet Hospital – São Paulo
Thomas Brennan – Direction, Design, Performance
Miguel Noya – Electronic Music Composer
Gustavo Sol – Performer and Digital Dramaturg
Support Team
Paula Fernanda Monte Santo, Lara Buffa, Tori Moraes, Pedro Ayarroio
Acknowledgments
Prof. Dr. Silvia Laurentiz, Dr. Clarissa Ribeiro, Grupo Realidades
Puppet Hospital – Sweden
Thomas Brennan – Direction, Design, Performance
Miguel Noya – Electronic Music Composer
Gustavo Sol – Performer and Digital Dramaturg
Christoph Abé – Drum and Bass Composer
Robert Hyman – Opera Singer / Voice Professor
Madeleine Karlsson – Choreographer, Performer
Emilia Brown – Soprano
Elisabeth Leyser – Soprano
