METEOR 2013: CATHOLIC 1991
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WORK IN PROGRESS
Røkeriet bar at USF Verftet, Thursday 24th 2013 at 18:00
Catholic 1991 is a performance about the word “catholic” by Andrea Spreafico (Bergen/IT) in collaboration with Ivo Bärtsch (Nürnberg/CH), Caroline Eckly (Bergen/FR), Thomas Meadowcroft (Berlin/AUS), Martin Flack (Bergen/NO) and others. The showing during METEOR is a result of a research week and should be regarded as a public performance of a work in progress.
The word «catholic» will be explored as used in an aesthetic, non-theological, sense (i.e. baroque, symbolic representation, ply, drapery, bloody figures, lust for pathetic, dramatic and baroque figures, mazy patterns, strong contrasts, climax), a temporal sense (i.e. nostalgia, projection towards an end, decadency), an etymological sense (“catholic” means: universal) and a geographical sense (very close, but non identical, to North-Mediterranian). These four meanings connote an aesthetic universe whose sense is bound to theatricality. With the expression “catholic artwork” the company refer to a piece, or in general a representation, whose form is a loud exteriorisation of a content. The content they choose to show this kind of exteriorisation are the 90s. The discussion of the word “catholic” will try to understand the 90s and the generation that in these years celebrated their youth. The culture of the 90s, its destiny at the end of the century, its desperate attempt to still be part of the last century – this will be the iconic content of the performance and will be used to create the set, the music and the movements of this piece, that will read the 90s generation as a “catholic” generation. If “catholic” is the work of the stage machine, the 90s will be the content that activate it.
PRACTICAL INFORMATION:
Open/free of charge.
