Combining performance, installation and game design, Trickster-p's new project calls into question old biological, ecological and anthropological models to transform the theatre into a huge game board around which spectators are invited to a participatory experience whose outcomes, always different, are the result of their individual contributions.
Eutopia stems from the desire to explore a different paradigm of “making together” through a playful and multisensory approach. How do we re-construct or de-construct our “doing”? How to live together after the months of isolation imposed by the pandemic? How to coexist with the plurality of forms around “nature” without denying our “being human”?
Collective action, as foundational as it is ephemeral, becomes a tool to delineate possible worlds, which focus on narratives and visions in which the human and the non-human intertwine to recompose a jagged geography of multi-species landscapes in constant transformation. Favouring that art of storytelling in which human beings are not at the centre, but neither do they play the role of intruders against whom “nature” should be protected, Eutopia involves the participants, interrogates them and makes them participants in the non-human stories that arise from their action.
creation
Trickster-p
concept and realisation
Cristina Galbiati
Ilija Luginbühl
dramaturg
Simona Gonella
artistic collaboration
Yves Regenass
game design
Pietro Polsinelli
sound space
Zeno Gabaglio
assistance
Arianna Bianconi
production
LAC Lugano Art and Culture
Trickster-p
in co-production with
Theater Chur, TAK Theater
Liechtenstein, ROXY
Birsfelden, Südpol Luzern
with the support of
Le Grütli - Centre de production et de diffusion des
Arts vivants (Geneva) - creation residence
18.03.2022
LAC, Lugano
29.04–05.05.2022
FOG Triennale Milano Performing Arts
15–17.06 .2022
Theater Chur
24–27.06.2022
Sardegna Teatro
01–03.07.2022
Pergine Festival
30–31.07.2022
Cima Norma Art festival
25–28.08.2022
BMotion_OperaEstate festival
31.08–04.09.2022
Alpe Adria Puppet Festival, Gorizia
21.09.2022
Università di Pavia - International Summer School, Pavia
30.11–04.12.2022
ROXY Birsfelden
08–11.12.2022
Theater Stadelhofen Zürich
12/13.01.2023
GO GO GO Festival, Ginevra
21–24.02.2023
Casino Theater Zug
07–11.03.2023
Südpol Luzern
15–21.03. 2023
Asteroide Amor, Venezia
23–25.03.2023
Teatro Sociale, Bellinzona
24–28.04.2023
Sardegna Teatro, Cagliari
04–07.05.2023
Orlando Festival, Bergamo
12–17.05.2023
TAK Theater Liechtenstein, Vaduz
02/03.09.2023
Campo Base festival, Oira (IT)
09/10.09.2023
Invisible Cities, Gradisca d’Isonzo (IT)
21.09.2023
Swissfoundation, Friburgo
04–07.11.2023
Festival Theater der Dinge, Berlino
18–19.11.2023
Teatro Comunale di Casalmaggiore
18–20.04.2024
Festival Sismògraf, Olot
05–08.05.2024
Schlachthaus Theater, Bern
10.05.2024
Dazio Grande, Rodi-Fiesso
31.08–02.09.2024
Festuge Gruppe 38, Aarhus
28–29.09.2024
Back to the Future Festival, Milano
02–05.10.2024
Città delle 100 scale festival, Potenza
25–27.10.2024
Rotondes, Lussemburgo
