Part of: Fast Forward Festival 2

FFF2 | Domini Public

Roger Bernat

Dates

Prices

5 — 10 €

Location

Athens

Time & Date

Day
Time
Venue
Day
Friday-Sunday
Time
20:00
Venue
Kotzia Square (Aeolou St.)

Information

General

In Greek or English

Theatre without a theatre or actors. In the public space of a square, spectators become protagonists in a revelatory game whose upshot depends entirely on them.

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A crowd of people standing in the middle of a square. They are observing, but also starring in, "Domini Public" (Public space), a work which elevates the viewer from a spectator to a performer, a player in a three-dimensional role-playing game which draws on Statistics for its rules while simultaneously resembling an anthropological, sociological, political and ontological experiment.

The participants are given earphones through which they are asked questions by a voice. The voice calls on the viewers to split into groups and sub-groups depending on choices they make, then assigns them the roles they will play—prisoners, guards and representatives of the Red Cross—in a reconstruction which is as revelatory as it is interactive.

The ‘audience’ remain mute throughout: their wordless gestures and choices, their actions and reactions, the route they trace through space are quite expressive enough. The multiple award-winning Roger Bernat has been staging this unique spectacle in open public spaces from Barcelona to Rio de Janeiro and London to Tokyo since 2008. Are you feeling up to a bit of silent, public confession?

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Credits

  • Collaborating students

    Adriana Bertran, Aleix Fauró, Anna Roca, Sònia Espinosa, Tonina Ferrer, María Salguero

  • Music

    W.A. Mozart, A.P. Borodin, G. Mahler, A. Dvorak, B. Smetana, J. Sibelius, J. Williams, E. Grieg, Lole y Manuel

  • Choice of music and performances, sound processing

    Juan Cristóbal Saavedra Vial

  • Costumes

    Bàrbara Glaenzel, Dominique Bernat

  • Photographs and technical management

    Txalo Toloza

  • Digital media technician

    Aleksei Hescht

  • Graphics

    Marie-Klara González

  • Coordination

    Helena Febrés Fraylich

  • Curated by

    Katia Arfara

  • Thanks to

    Víctor Molina and Mia Esteve

  • With the support of

    the Spanish Ministry of Education, Culture and Sport

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