RICARDO FRAYHA
producer

Installation | CREATION | 2011

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MAPA TEATRO

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Occupation Mapa Teatro:Micropolitics and Poetics

Mapa Teatro is more than a theatrical group, it constitutes itself as a creative laboratory that works with various situations and contexts, having the Colombian reality and its multiplicity as the main references of its works. Going beyond the territory of the stages and the laws of traditional theater, the experiences of Mapa Teatro explore the boundaries between the fictional and the real, the concrete territories and the subjectivities attached to them, the poetry of the common Latin American reality. The MAPA Teatro Laboratorio de ARTE project: Micropolitics and poetics consists of the presentation of a series of theatrical and performance actions, stagings, video installations, conferences and dialogues, around three recent works by this Colombian artists laboratory, pioneer of transdisciplinary artistic experimentation in Colombia. There are three creations that pose questions about art and the community, simulacrum and reality, poetics and politics, in three particular areas of  contemporary Colombian landscape, in particular, and Latin American in general: in Los Santos Inocentes (2010 ), a traditional “fiesta” of a population in the Colombian South Pacific crossed by the guerrilla-drug-trafficking-paramilitary conflict; in EXXXtrañas Amazonas (2009), a Mexican science fiction film from the 1970s, transformed by the art of three Colombian trans artists; in Testigo de Las Ruínas (2005), the testimony of the demolition of an emblematic neighbourhood in the center of Bogotá, with the living testimony of its last inhabitant. Three transdisciplinary creations that take place in a single device, in which the scenography of these three scenic assemblies are converted during the day into installations, within which the audience can see and experience the works in other ways. Photographs, objects and video installations, carried out in parallel or after the scenic creation of the three works, highlight and make visible particular aspects of these universes. A series of dialogues between Brazilian and Colombian thinkers and a literary-musical cabaret complement this “occupation” device. Installation during the day, performing event at night.

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MAPA TEATRO

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Mapa Teatro is an Artists laboratory dedicated to trans-disciplinary creation. Based in Bogota since 1986, Mapa Teatro was founded in Paris in 1984 by Heidi, Elizabeth and Rolf Abderhalden, theatre and visual artists from Colombia. Since its inception, Mapa Teatro has built a cartography within the milieu of the Live Arts, a propitious space for transgressing - geographic, linguistic, artistic – boundaries, and for staging local and global issues through various “thought-montage” operations. A space of migration, were myth, history and topicality exist continuously; intimate and public spheres; artistic languages (theatre, opera, cabaret, radio, sound and video installations, urban interventions, actions and performatic conferences); authors and epochs (Aeschylus, Müller, Shakespeare, Sarah Kane, Antonio Rodriguez, Händl Klaus); geographies and languages (La Noche/Nuit in French and Spanish; West Dock in Russian, A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings in Tamil; De Mortibus in English, Spanish and French; voice, image and movement (4:48 Psychosis, Simply Complicated); memory and city (Project Prometheus, The Cleaning of Augias Stables, Witness to the Ruins, Cartographies in Motion); voice, music and live electronics (Simply Complicated, Love Story, The Magic Flute, Orpheus) simulation and reality (Exxxtrañas Amazonas, Trans/positions); document and fiction, poetics and politics (Horatio, The Holy Innocents, Discourse of a Decent Man and The Unaccounted: a Triptych). Hence Mapa Teatro’s interest in the creative processes and events “in vivo”; in the translation and transposition of writings and scenic scores; and in the operation of putting together documentation, archives and fictions. In recent years, Mapa Teatro has focussed particularly on the production of poetic-political events through the construction of ethno-fictions and the ephemeral creation of experimental communities, Mapa Teatro generates processes of artistic investigation and research, which are developed in diverse spheres and scenarios of a Colombian reality. They are laboratories of social imagination.

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OCCUPATION MAPA TEATRO: MICROPOLITICS AND POETICS

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Laboratory Testigo de las ruinas
Heidi Abderhalden, Rolf Abderhalden, Juana Ramírez, Ximena Vargas, Carlos Benavides "Champi", Juan Ernesto Díaz, Lucas Maldonado, Rolando Vargas, Luis Antonio Delgado, Jose Ignacio Rincón, Claudia Torres, Santiago Sepúlveda

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Laboratory Exxxtrañas amazonas

Heidi Abderhalden, Rolf Abderhalden, Claudia Torres, Linda Lucía Callejas, Charlotte Schneider Callejas, Raúl Platz, Lucas Maldonado, Luis Antonio Delgado, Andrés Fresneda, Ximena Vargas, Jose Ignacio Rincón

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Laboratory Los Santos Inocentes 

Heidi Abderhalden, Rolf Abderhalden, Julián Díaz, Andrés Castañeda, Santiago Sepúlveda, Claudia Torres, Genaro Torres, Juan Ernesto Díaz, Ximena Vargas, Lucas Maldonado, Luis Antonio Delgado, Arno Truschinski, Jose Ignacio Rincón

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Dialogue 1 - Testigo de las Ruinas / Art and  urban renovation: Marta Ruiz, Rocío Londoño, Marta Bogéa

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Dialogue 2 - Exxxtrañas Amazonas / Policies of the body: Adriana Urrea, Christian Ingo Lenz Dunker

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Literary Cabaret: Heidi Abderhalden, Rolf Abderhalden, Luiz Ruffato, Nucleo Bartolomeu de Depoimentos, Eugenio Lima, Roberta Estrela Dalva, Genaro Torres, Juan Ernesto Díaz, Julián Díaz, Claudia Torres

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Dialogue 3 - Los Santos Inocentes / Processes of violence and representation: Mara Viveros, Laymert García dos Santos

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Production: prod.art.br | Production direction: Matthias Pees, Ricardo Muniz Fernandes | Executive production: Jussara Rahal, Ricardo Frayha | Technical direction: Julio Cesarini

Realisation: Sesc São Paulo

Sesc Pompeia

São Paulo, SP, Brazil

24/04 to 03/05/2011