To the main content To the footer
KVS

Soliloquio

Tiziano Cruz
(I WOKE UP AND HIT MY HEAD AGAINST THE WALL)
Thu 21.11.2024 20:00 - 21:30
KVS, Brussels
KVS BOL
Tickets
21.11.2024
20:00 - 21:30
Tickets

At once both intimate and political, Soliloquio questions the place of indigenous bodies and, more broadly, of invisibilised cultures in a world governed by the model of the coloniser. 

Soliloquio is the second part of an autobiographical trilogy by Tiziano Cruz, a scream of rage which originated with a tragic event: in 2015, his sister died at age 18 due to medical negligence. Now aware of the discrimination faced by indigenous people within the Argentine power system, the artist set out to examine the place of their bodies in a world where colonialism and supremacism are perpetuated by a neoliberal system. Tiziano Cruz’s performances are visual experiences at the crossroads between the political and the intimate. Soliloquio—a minimalist solo stage production—is based on the 58 letters he wrote to his mother during the Covid lockdown. Hailing from a region of Argentina that comprises nine communities, he works with local populations—both indigenous and migratory—for the first part of his performance, which takes place in the public space. 

Part of

Tiziano Cruz 

Tiziano Cruz is an interdisciplinary artist whose work fundamentally brings together visual and theatrical language, performance and artistic intervention in public space. Tiziano has been a grantee of the Fondo Nacional de las Artes and the Instituto Nacional del Teatro ARG. He was winner of the Bienal de Arte Joven 2019 and winner of the ANTI award, Finland, 2023. He is founder of the Cultural Management Platform ULMUS, dedicated to the mediation between different cultural organizations in Argentina and neighboring countries. He has worked as Content Producer at the Centro Cultural Recoleta in Buenos Aires. His works have toured Chile, Brazil, Mexico, USA, Canada, Portugal, Spain, Switzerland, Germany and Finland. 

"In Soliloquio (me desperté y golpeé mi cabeza contra la pared), Tizianos’ powerful and poetic oration captures a personal statement to reflect on the local and regional relation and the cultural traditions of his ancestry."
– Jury Rapport ANTI Festival International Prize for Live Art 2023 (Finland)
« La pièce est un soliloque poignant, d'une noire poésie. »
– La Presse
« Il monte sur scène et entreprend son soliloque avec coeur et conviction. »
Théâtralités