"Paulo Nazareth based in the town of Melo in Brazil, carries the fire of Latin American Performance Art. A radical new generation performance artist, Paulo is the new generation Brazilian performance artist, working and redefining a style first mastered by Danniel Saraiva.. His body of work is an ironic commentary on schizophrenia of lower middle class existence in Brazil. Using a calculated impromptu approach, Paulo uses re- contextualised gestures as his principle medium."
Rahul Bhattacharya
Important Public Notice / Important Noticia / Mahatvapoorna Soochna Janata Ke Liye
Paolo's practice has always been situated in the public sphere, outside the confines and constraints of a gallery or institution. During the 6-week residency, he walked everywhere taking in the sights sounds and reality of life in Urban Delhi. Through the 6 weeks Paolo did a series of performances that were intended to be spontaneous and located specifically in the public domain. He chose to perform at Nehru Place, as the hub of pirated software and other goods, was the ideal site for a performance that aimed at subversion, albeit on a small scale of the European Market monopoly.
Dressed in a trampish coat, Paulo carried two placards with him one stating "Anyone who guesses my profession will get hundred rupees" and the other stating "anyone who guesses which country I am from will get one rupees". Accompanied by Hemant, Manoj and Aastha, he went and sat in a crowed courtyard and instantly started drawing a crowd. Paulo was giving them an alien spectacle and typically they did not want to miss it. Many tried guessing the answers to the questions raised but only one succeeded (enough to earn one rupee). After a point the police came in to disperse the crowd, putting an end to the evenings burst of activity.
Pure Water for Secular Men / Agua Potauel Para Homeng Profands / Saada Paani Dharmnipreksh Admiyon Ke Liye
The open day evening began with Paulo enacting his performance "Pure Water for Secular Men / Agua Potauel Para Homeng Profands / Saada Paani Dharmnipreksh Admiyon Ke Liye" the performance involved Paulo walking down the narrow lanes of Khirkee with a wooden water container tied to his chest and armed with some glasses he walked around distributing clean drinking water free to people. As usual Paulo evoked a strange sight, and baffled his audience with his play of contexts.
For Paulo visiting Delhi and India was a rare experience, he had never been outside Brazil before, and he could sense that this cultural exposure would have a significant impact on how he viewed intervention. In his work for the open day, Paulo wanted to create a room for himself, constructing a utopia where he would live and work. Right at the onset Paulo was clear about the specificities, he wanted to construct his "utopia" with. In an attempt to communicate his own lived ambiance, Paulo desired to construct his space with some lime paint, a hammock, a radio and certain items of daily use. Within that space Paulo wanted to build in a narrative sealing up the rooms window with ply board, Paulo wanted to structure his performance around using a rudimentary cutting tool...and through the evening of the open day breaking the ply sealing open.