I haven’t seen anything yet by Joris Lacoste, but I like his different approaches. In some works he explores hypnosis and in others, games, as if he wanted his work to show the two opposing trends that have characterised art ...Read More
Re-enactment is common in the theatre. Rimini Protokoll’s Deutschland 2 and Massimo Furlan’s Foot are two appealing projects from 2002 that use the same strategy. In the first, 200 spectators reproduce a parliamentary session in real time (at the same ...Read More
On 16 January 2013 Bitnik sent a parcel to Julian Assange, holed up at the Ecuadorian embassy in London. The parcel was fitted with an IP camera that filmed the journey (1 image every 10 seconds) to its destination. The ...Read More
As you enter the theatre, instead of the stalls there is a tier covered with mattresses and cushions. You’re invited to make yourself comfortable. On stage, dancer and co-author of the piece Alix Eynaudi tells you what is going to ...Read More
Spain, France, Canada, Mexico, Portugal, Italy, Britain, Finland, Japan, Switzerland, Italy, Holland, Denmark, South Korea, Germany, Brazil, Estonia, Slovenia, Tunisia, Belgium. CLICK HERE: Bolos-2010-2012-2 Read More
In 2005, Tellervo Kalleinen and Oliver Kochta-Kalleinen went to Birmingham to put together a choir of people who weren’t singers but did have something to complain about. First of all they took down all the group’s complaints and then a ...Read More
Esther Belvis writes about Public Domain in Furtherfield. Besides boosting your ego, it is interesting to read an article on your own show that comes from outside the world of the critics. Performances always seem more interesting in other people’s ...Read More
“As writers we always feel we are free to kill people without any punishment. Perhaps the satisfying thing about Please, Continue is that fiction is judged in the same way we judge reality”. This was what Argentine writer Alan Pauls ...Read More
We finally managed to perform Pending Vote in a real parliament. It was in the Provinciehuis in Ghent (Belgium), organised by the Vooruit. We had tried to do this in Spain, but it proved impossible. Some Spanish members of parliament ...Read More
This book by Claire Bishop came out the day after my birthday. It takes a look at 20th- and 21st-century art and its increasing sense of theatre. Besides the many tangential experiences it describes, it is interesting to see that ...Read More