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14.05.202320:00Teatro Piccolo Arsenale , VeniceTeatro Piccolo Arsenale
The starting point for Manuela Infante’s piece is a question: how is the concept of “human” being produced in these stories? Why is nature a separate territory, and why are women so easily expulsed into that fabricated otherness or wilderness? By inventing an Otherness and attaching women to it, ‘human’ is being delimited as a privileged place for men. No wonder then that alt-right groups today venerate these classics as models of behaviour for twenty-first century modern man …
Still, working with these texts is important for Infante: “We need to deconstruct the canon from within. These kinds of pieces aren’t only about damaging dogmas – the beauty of it is that all the ingredients we need to approach the world in a completely different way are contained within them too. It’s why it’s so rich and useful to work with a writer like Ovid.”
Infante seeks out how the border dividing human from non-human is fabricated in the text, and then infringes it. For don’t those same distinctions form the basis of people’s – white men’s – arguments to allow for categorising and thus colonising to exploit or appropriate? What difference whether it’s about colonizing women or people of colour, animals or nature? By vampirizing, sucking out the blood, of these outdated fabricated categories, Infante opens nowadays ways to deal with ancient literature.
The new piece could be best described as a ‘noise play’ in which all voices are processed live. In the enchanted soundscape thus created, voice is not an expression of human agency but rather a more-than-human thing. A voice is a thing borrowed from the wind, that entangles humans and non-humans in endless ventriloquisms, refrains and echoes, without ever belonging to either.
19:30 INTRODUCTION by Gladys Vercammen-Grandjean
Manuela Infante is a world-renowned Chilean theatre creator, known to the KVS public from her previous creations Estado Vegetal and Metamorphoses. For many years she has been investigating how the boundaries between the human and non-human are fabricated, in order to subsequently tear them down. In Estado Vegetal she plays with intelligence and communication within the plant world, in Realismo she rattles our ingrained ideas about objects and in Metamorphoses she questions whether a voice is an exclusively human prerogative. With How to Turn to Stone she continues down this path and immerses herself in mineral matters.
Podcast
Interview
The cast
Hannah Berrada
Jurgen Delnaet
Luna De Boos
