RESEARCH & PROJECTSPo:era  create immersive experiences at the interface of performance, sound and audiovisual art. In their site-specific, site-responsive and site-participatory research, Lucas Lacerda (Brazil) and Daniel Weyand (Germany) deal with the material, imaginary and living qualities of a space, explore its histories and contemporaries or create encounters with its human and non-human inhabitants. Between Germany, Portugal and Brazil, their works include festivals, residency programmes, immersive audio and video walks, inclusive film projects, theatre productions in public spaces, and multimedia installations. 

In creative participation processes and workshops with local communities, they co-write and produce stories and lived experiences in dialogue with the territories, spaces or institutions where their art can be experienced. Equipped with a mobile live mixing desk and wireless headphones, Po:era's inter-media performances are embedded in a metamodern storytelling between reality and fiction. The central motif of their work is the sensual experience of our shared evolutionary roots and our ongoing, interwoven life paths towards an uncertain future.

Po:era tells stories of an animated and interdependent world: just as our eyes and ears seem to follow their own rules to ultimately create a holistic sensory experience, the dust (Portuguese: poeira) we stir up on one side of the Earth prepares the ground for life’s diversity on the other side of the planet.