Márcio-André de Sousa Haz

• Name — Márcio-André de Sousa Haz • Born — 2 March 1978 • Birthplace — Rio de Janeiro, Brazil • Birth Name — Márcio-André de Sousa • Other Names — Márcio-André; M-A; Sousa Haz • Occupation — Writer, film director, performer, sound poet, theorist • Website — www.marcioandre.com

Márcio-André de Sousa Haz graduated in Literature and has a master's degree in Poetics from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. In 2008, he received a scholarship-prize from the Brazilian National Library Foundation and, in 2009, was poet-in-residence in Monsanto, Portugal. He taught an advanced training course in creative writing and sound poetry at University of Coimbra and literary theory at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. In 2007, he appeared in newspaper headlines for his suicide performance in the ghost town of Chernobyl. In his lecture-of-one-man (that he called "Conference Poetic-Radioactive of Pripyat"), Marcio-Andre remained six hours reading his poems between the ruins of the ghost-town Pripyat (Chernobyl), in the so-called Zone of Exclusion, under the deliberate risk of contamination by cesium 137 and strontium 90. After the event, he received the nickname "poeta radioativo" (radioactive poet). This performance resulted in the book Ensaios Radioativos, where he describes the experience of contamination.

Multimedia artist, Marcio-Andre has stood out with his research in the area of sound poetry. He held solo performances in several cities in the world, including Paris, London, Lima, Rotterdam, Buenos Aires, Lisbon and São Paulo. Between 2004 and 2007, led the group Arranjos para assobio (Arrangements for whistle) of poetic textures and experimental realities, linked with a sound research project at UFRJ, under academic advising by the philosopher Manuel Antonio de Castro. In 2009, he presented a performance with the American poet Bruce Andrews. In 2009, he has toured to Europe with his work Indivisible: polyphonic-poem for voices, violin, electronic processing, bells and whistles In his performances, Marcio-Andre uses the computer to processing, live, harmonics sounds and percussive sounds taken from the violin and voice. From this processing, from the creation of electronic textures and from loop recordings, it overlaps sound layers and folds to create a uniform mass of texts and sounds. In his plays are noted influences from noisy music, minimalist music and Eastern music, especially by the use of Tibetan chants and modes of Noh theater. He uses, yet, abstract projections, videodances and video loops projected onto the stage and incorporates various other props in presentations.

• Cidade Reposta (Short) Brazil, 2010 • Artaud en Compostela (Short) Spain, 2013 • The First Time I Saw Francis Taylor He Was in Slow Motion (Short) Hungary, 2016 • The concept of Irony (El concepto de ironía, Short) Spain/Hungary, 2017 • Man in the Crowd (Based on Edgar Allan Poe short story) Hungary, 2018 • Cosy for Two at Kuleshov St. (Short) Hungary, 2018