AEOLIA THEATER - #MILLENNIAL REVOLUTION
April 13, 2023, 20:00 p.m. - 20:50
An event every week that begins at 20:00 on Thursday, Friday and Saturday, repeating until April 22, 2023
An event every week that begins at 18:00 on Sunday, repeating until April 23, 2023
An event every week that begins at 19:00 on Sunday and Saturday, repeating until April 23, 2023
#MILLENNIAL REVOLUTION
ICONOGRAPHY FOR A POPULAR CRUSADE
GABRIEL JIMÉNEZ AND PAULA TEN / COLLECTIVO NFT (NON FUTURE THEATER)
SYNOPSIS
#Millennial Revolution are five paintings that tell us about art and revolution. How art has expressed the revolution and how the revolution has served as artistic material.
Based on the mechanisms of representation of three historical revolutions – the French, the Russian and the Cuban –, the work raises the dichotomy between active and direct participation and the passivity of the distanced chronicle, a passivity that in this case materializes in the creation of the artistic work. A work of art that over time becomes an icon, a representative symbol of the struggle, a romanticization of violence distanced from the real thing. Revisiting these revolutionary icons in the midst of the era of image viralization thanks to social networks should make us think about how we construct our imaginary as a society based on images.
It is for this reason that we start from the iconography of lapsed revolutions and pass it through the filter of audiovisual mediation, with all that entails: collage, fragmentation of discourse, acceleration and frenzy of images; immediacy, consumption and viralization. Because the millennial generation lives in the midst of what today we could call "the society of image and representation": a simulacrum of reality, in the words of Baudrillard, or a society of spectacle, according to Guy Debord.
What is clear to us is that the image has replaced the present body and that the action has been overcome by the attempt. And from this failed attempt at action, in conjunction with the oversaturation of images, #Millennial Revolution is born, the revolutionary iconography of a generation.
ARTISTIC SHEET
Direction: Paula Ten and Gabriel Jiménez
Dramaturgy: Gabriel Jiménez
Audiovisuals: Paula Ten
Scenic space: Ona Grau
Sound space: Gerard Bosch
Lighting: Iris Romero
With the collaboration of Pol Para
Voices: Gerard Bosch, Andreu Bacardit, Arnau Costa, Jan Estrada, Martina Jorquera, Leira Malinowski, Amelia Quintana and Pau Zamora
Special thanks: Albert Bassas and Manuel Monró
With the support of Espai Jove Palau Alòs and the Civic Center Convent de Sant Agustí
A production by Colectivo NFT (Non Futured Theare) with the support of Teatre Eòlia