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October 28 – November 2 2024 . VII EASTAP Conference . Sitges . Spain

VII EASTAP CONFERENCE
Sitges, Spain
October 28th – November 2nd 2024
ECOSYSTEMS OF THEATRE AND PERFORMANCE

Agata Tomšič / ErosAntEros partecipates at the VII EASTAP Conference, which will be held in Spain, in Sitges, from October 28th to November 2nd 2024.

The conference aims to bring together international scholars, practitioners and researchers, inviting submissions for papers and presentations that delve into different aspects of this theme and offer fresh insights into the dynamic field of theatre and performance.

Agata Tomšič participates in two events of the program:

  • Wednesday October 30th, h 09:30 am – 10:45 am, Studio 2 – Performative Lectures
    PANEL
    – Theatre as a tool to collectively fight climate catastrophe: the example of ErosAntEros’ performance Gaia by Agata Tomšič
    – How Do You Do? – Knowledge sharing of artistic practice by Barbara Simonsen

  • Thursday October 31th, h 05:00 pm – 06:00 pm, IAB Theatre
    Open Debate
    PROFESSIONAL AND ARTISTIC NETWORKING EVENT AND ARTISTIC DIRECTOR MEETING. PARTICIPANTS WILL INCLUDE: Temporada Alta (Spain), Choreoscope – International Dance Film Festival of Barcelona (Spain), AF Moment Encuentros (Spain), Lacuna Festivals (Spain), ErosAntEros – Polis Teatro Festival (Italy), Sala Atrium (Spain), Debris Company (Slovakia), Italian Cultural Institute in Barcelona (Italy/Spain), Theatre North (UK), Collectif des Arts du Mime et du Geste (France), Théâtre Diagonale (France), International Performing Arts Festival of Tagier (Morocco), Persona Theatre Company (Greece), Difesa d’Autore (Italy) and others.

Following, the abstract of the PANEL on Wednesday October 30th:

Theatre as a tool to collectively fight climate catastrophe: the example of ErosAntEros’ performance Gaia

Agata Tomšič
ErosAntEros – POLIS Teatro Festival

Starting from the practices I’ve experienced in the work of the contemporary theater group ErosAntEros, in my performative lecture I point out how theatre can be used as a tool to reflect collectively on our present and to imagine a different shape of the world for the future, with a practical example of action on the topic of environmental catastrophe.

Since 2010 we have been developing an aesthetic-political theatre that manipulates different sources and expressive languages. In 2023 we have developed a project that challenge with the climate change, the pollution and exploitation of planet Earth, creating an evolving, multidisciplinary, participatory and site-specific performance, based on a dramaturgical-visual device, that enters in relation with the places where it is performed by bringing on stage non-professionals, activists and young actors from the area. We also conceived an ephemeral set design of fog and video projections to be adapted each time to the venues it meets, to experiment with new good practices that reduce the environmental impact of production and circulation of the performances. This show will provide a pretext for reflecting on how contemporary theater can face different challenges in the era of the Anthropocene, if understood as a tool through which to confront different orders of reality and urge the audience not to remain indifferent to the past, present and future of our one and only common home, the Earth. Starting from the Benjaminian idea of the dialectic image as a place where different historical times meet and allow us, for lightning moments, to read our present in a new way, combined with George Didi-Huberman’s interpretation of it, underlining the intrinsic politicalness of all images, I will reflect on how the theatrical hic et nunc can be a place where is possible to overturn the roles of our society and inventing a new one, using the revolutionary power of utopian thinking and imagination.