Generi: Prosa, Performance

Tags: identita', immigrazione, interazione, appartenenza, confini

In 2014 we started developing Histra -
a multimedia ensemble performance piece which cinematically (re)imagined the elusive search for a promised land of a group of migrants scattered around Europe .
Stories from Europe and from its past, post 9/11 paranoia, immigration, history and its subjectivity are all entwined by the use of technological medium of video and live action.
We developed an initial 50’ piece which premiered under the umbrella of Ferodo Bridges and UAL PlatformTheatre London.
We believe that the use of Intermediacy and visual simultaneity are all part of a detailed access for the viewer when reporting a juxtapposed series of stories though the use of words and visual aids. We would propose a further development of our initial piece Histra by bringing into question most recent development of migratory situation which now has reached wider Europe.
It’s a chance to create a cross-border and honest argument upon the figure of the migrant/refugee by trying in outlining the experience of displacement itself and the concept of belonging in a way in which every individual could intimately relate to: creating a narrative discourse we hope to shape dialogue verging towards cohesion and social integration.
Stemming from the seminal work of Giorgio Agamben, director Katie Mitchell The Waves and John Berger ‘s A Seventh Man - we want to develop our present research material and prior work into an exploration of the relation between live action , computer generated animation and recorded material. In particular, the events of the stage are filmed and projected by a film crew, a device which helps to frame the audience’s interrogation of the process of the writing of history and the production of fictions and narrative itself.
Our goal consist in experimenting and finding new ways of communicating by bringing live- filmed image into the context of theatre making, narrative and live performance; whilst addressing todays migratory phenomena.
Homo Sacer asks difficult questions about how we understand ourselves in relation to the times and the universe in which we find ourselves. Through a series of images and words - juxtapposed and created one with another within staggered system of scenes. Occasionally the image created is used instead of the text.
Video becomes then a good medium through which the visual fragments can be shown.
We envision at lease four performer and crew - to be creating the sequences which in a staggered order will shape the performance. All of whom will be both performing and operating camera/
video projections content used during devising etc.
As in terms of the use of IT and video content generating, we decided to lay down certain ‘house rules’ in terms of the use of video in the performance:
•The actors would film everything live on stage. There must be no pre-recorded material and all the edits between different shots must be made live by a camera operator who would be in an
on-stage control room.
•The actors

Produzione: Mapped Productions