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Biography
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Born in Rio de Janeiro in 1978
Writer, sound and visual artist.
Author of four books of poetry and essays, he has collaborated with newspapers
including O
Globo, Jornal do Brasil, O Estado de Minas and with
numerous brazilian and international magazines, having
his works translated into eight languages. He also has poems published
in the
anthologies
Poetas do Mundo,
O que é poesia?, Todo começo é
involuntário - a poesia brasileira no início do Sec. 21, Poétes
Brèsiliens d´aujourd´hui, 24 letras
por segundo, among
others. His work,
both literary and performative, is studied in several
countries like USA, Finland, Portugal and Iran.
He has taught advanced courses in creative writing and
sound poetry at the University of Coimbra and the
Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. As a translator,
he published texts of Gherasim Luca, Gilles Yvain, Serge
Pey, Mathieu Bénézet, Hagiwara Sakutaro and Forrest
Gander. In 2008, he received the National Library
Foundation Scholarship, for the book of essays Pética
das Casas (Poetics of Houses) and in 2009, was resident
poet in Monsanto, Portugal. He is also one editor with
Confraria do Vento (Brasil/ Portugal) and curator of
Cidade aTravessa, performative and literary event that
takes place in Lisbon, Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo.
An experimental poet, with works in the area of sound
and visual poetry, installation and performance, M-A has performed in
the United Kingdom, France, Portugal, Ukraine,
Spain, Argentina,
Peru and several cities in Brazil, sharing the stage with
poets such as Bruce Andrews, Stephen Rodefer, Miro
Villar, Arjen Duinker, Martín Gubbins and Jonathan Morley.
He read in the festivals Silêncio, Balada Literária,
Encontros de Interrogação, International Meeting of
Poets in Coimbra, Fórum das Letras, Marché de la Poésie,
and other.
His most recent performances are
Suspensión (Spain, 2011),
Sound Poetry (Portugal, 2011), Multitubetextura (Portugal,
Brazil
and Peru, 2010), Indivisible: Poem-polyphony for voices, violin,
electronic processing, bells and whistles (United Kingdom,
Ukraine, France,
2009), Polyphonic work for word, violin and subway (2009), presented in a subway
station in Rio de Janeiro, Along with Maria Bethania, Edu Lobo and Zeca
Baleiro, he read poems in the documentary and video
installation Há muitas noites na noite, by Silvio
Tendler. Thanks to this Radioactive-Poetic Conference (2007) in the ghost town
of Chernobyl, in Ukraine, he became "the first radioactive
poet in the world."
Márcio-André lives in Lisbon.
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