Octávio
Camargo is a composer and theatre director, and has been teaching Aesthetics
and Harmony at the University of Arts in Parana (EMBAP), Brazil, since
1992. His work explores a diversity of fields, from music composition,
theatrical presentations, and impromptu actions, such as “Pé
com Cabeca” (performance 1995), “Ao redor da mesa” (theatre
play 1999), “Oraculo do momento” (installation 2000), “Os
Lusíadas” (performance 2000). Since December 2002 he has
directed performances of dramatic enunciation of the Epic poetry of Homer
(Ilíada de
Homero). Camargo is associate editor of Surface Tension Supplements
and conceptual activist for Surface Tension Projects.
