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LE CABARET ROCK
ROMACE

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On a journey into the extravagant underworld of the artistic avant-garde, this narrative begins where the more conventional current of the stage leaves off - in the fantastic Cabaret Rock aesthetic, that way of life subjugated by controversy and many psychological shadows.

 

This irreverent story now appears in its novel version, after its stage show, record album and television episode. In the year of its premiere in 2012, the explosive staging of this original text received the applause of 40,000 live spectators, and has remained to this day, over successive seasons, as the official show of Nirvana Studios.

POETS OF METAMORPHOSIS
THE STORY BY CUSTOM CIRCUS

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"A STORY OF IRREVERENCE, ART AND FREEDOM"

 

When an unusual company of nomadic artists decides to do the unthinkable, the result is an incredible story. This book presents the photographic archive and intimate testimonies of this troupe who have lived exclusively to materialize their Post-Apocalyptic imaginary, carnalizing their vast dystopian fiction through their transdisciplinary hands.

 

In these 300 full-color, large-format pages, it is the images that are the protagonists of the narrative, showing this paradoxical journey and its course traced by irreverence, art and freedom.

MEKANON
CUSTOM CIRCUS SERIES - VOLUME I

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Awarded with the Adamastor Grand Prize for Portuguese Fantastic Literature 2021, this book is the 1st volume of the Atland saga signed by the post-apocalyptic Custom Circus label.

 

The predominant cinematic thread of this collection crosses fascinating intrigues, in an authentic geography centered mostly on Portuguese territory in a future three centuries away.

RAUS HUMAN
CUSTOM CIRCUS SERIES - VOLUME II

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In this breathtaking story, the bizarre civilization of the continent of Atland is unveiled, that unbelievable new world succeeding the metamorphosis of the Atlantic Ocean, now petrified into a gigantic unforgiving desert.

 

In this series premiered by Volume Mekanon, this 2nd episode comes under the auspices of Nirvana Studios and ERIH - European Route of Industrial Heritage.

WAGON VILLAGE
CUSTOM CIRCUS SERIES - VOLUME III

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Gliding without brakes on vertiginous rails, this novel was forged with iron and fire under the pressure of action and passions always about to explode. 

 

Due to this adventure's railroad connection in a Post-Apocalyptic world where the emblematic steam locomotives have risen from the ashes, this 4th adventure in the Atland saga has been awarded the National Railway Museum Foundation's seal of approval.

ENYGMA OEIRAS
CUSTOM CIRCUS SERIES - VOLUME IV

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Chancelled by the Marquês de Pombal Foundation, this 4th adventure in the Atland saga is full of intrigue, action and romance in an unexpected matrix, where its mysterious plot glories from start to finish in the paradigmatic curvature of time. 

 

As the "enigmatic" title presupposes, the historical coordinates of the Oeiras region will be the main stage of this journey to the ends of the speculative imagination.

ATLAND
CUSTOM CIRCUS SERIES - VOLUME V

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This fifth novel in the Atland saga has been given the seal of approval by the Museu Nacional dos Coches (National Coach Museum) because one of the impressive - but real - vehicles from this literary series has joined the collection of this prestigious Portuguese museum. This was a pioneering step in art and industrial archaeology, as for the first time a piece from a paradoxical future was given a permanent museum home.  

 

 So here is another diabolical and limitless narrative, where in this case, the jesters are not afraid to challenge the tyrants, and the tyrants are not ashamed to make the jesters laugh.

THE FANTASTIC GUTKIN CURSE
VERBI GRATIA EDITIONS

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Forged with the complicity of Adolfo Gutkin himself, director, producer and theater teacher, this true story experienced by the author himself is the culmination of more than thirty years of learning to choose well the madmen who guided him - among whom he was lucky enough to choose a very special one.  

 

   Surprisingly effective, This Blessed Curse is an inspiring testimony to a more exciting way of life. Or don't you believe that there are evils that come for good?

THE WHEEL SAGA
VOLUMES I & II

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   The book that gave rise to the Custom Circus Series.

HEIRS OF THE APOCALYPSE
MANIFEST

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  This Exhibition intends to show an imaginary that we hope will never happen. Seen through the eyes of our descendants, those who could become the Heirs of the Apocalypse and who invite us to observe their art and visit their structural shelters adrift in an amnesic world in ruins, where only lost objects and industrial remains appear as witnesses of the past.

 

  What we take for granted can prove to be ephemeral if we are not careful. life will always be an experience where we are just guinea pigs of the present. Today we are waiting for the Earth to become green again, but waiting is not enough, action is needed. Great conflicts have marked our history, the next one could mark the end... Attention! There is still time not to enter this space that could challenge your opinions. But if you don't get in, you'll never know… 

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