
Against Architecture will be performed next Friday the 26th of June at the Vondelpark Openluchttheater (Amsterdam). The entrance is free and the performance starts at 21:00 hrs.
The title was taken from a book from Denis Hollier on the writings of Georges Bataille. For Bataille the edifice was an oppressive representation of a transcendent power that exerts control on its inhabitants. Within the context of this performance, we use the term Architecture as a metaphor for the “theological” structure of theatrical representation, in which the bodies of performers are inscribed by the desires of a master that transcends the object of his creation.
With this work we construct a parallel between the theories of The Situationist International (a movement composed by a group of activists that under the direction of Guy Debord, fought against the alienation in society created by what they called “the society of the spectacle”), and the despotic machinery of theatrical representation, that conflicts with the performers aspiration to attain unity with the work of art.
In Against Architecture two performers reveal the friction between their identity and the role they undertake. Against Architecture aims to question choreography ontology and the politics of its making.
Concept: Bruno Listopad / Choreography: Bruno Listopad in collaboration with the dancers: Amaranta Velarde González, Angelina Deck / Music: Dirk Haubrich with additional music of Frank Bretschneider and The Platters / Props: Edwin Kolpa / Costumes: Edith Ordelman, Bruno Listopad / Against Architecture is een Korzo Productie, mede mogelijk gemaakt door het Ministerie van OCW, Gemeente Den Haag, Nederlands Fonds voor de Podiumkunsten+





