
Residencies
- 06.01 > 18.01.2025
Departing from the idea of theater as a tool for depicting and influencing notions of reality, Rodrigo’s latest research reflects upon an assumed contemporary reality (or realism), born from the Post-Modern Era, which has evolved over the past six decades under the sway of the Neoliberal Regime and the misleading promises of free market, individual subjectivity, and privatization of life, leaving us with a landscape marked by collective hallucinations that challenge established understanding of truth, casting a pervasive shadow of doubt on our collective beliefs. In this context, the project metaphorizes that in our illusory world of neoliberal “freedom,” we are all kidnapped. Kidnapped by ideologies, identities, technologies, political systems, predatory relationships, capital, structural inequalities… In other words, we are kidnapped by the rooted subconscious of colonialism and capitalism, caught between the concrete – and daily – absurdity of globalized macro-politics and the abstract – often elitist – desire for solutions in the micropolitical realm.
Concept: Rodrigo Batista in collaboration with Mariana Senne I Performers: Mariana Senne & Rodrigo Batista I Collaboration in video: Kathleen Kunath I Collaboration in text: Luiz Pimentel I Collaboration in sound: Cainã Vidor I Residencies/Work in process: Studio Alta (Prague), WPZimmer (Antwerp), workspacebrussels (Brussels), Mestizo Arts Platform / WIPCOOP, De Brakke Grond, Campo, Proximamente Festival/KVS, Kunstenwerkplaats
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