DRAMATURGY
ISABEL BURR RATY
DEEP PHYTOCRACY (SI)
participatory performance by Špela Petrič
Dramaturgy Isabel Burr Raty
Supported by Ministry of Culture Republic of Slovenia & Vilnius Academy of Arts Lithuania
Co-organiser Osmo/za
2018
How did wheat manage to domesticate the human? From Pollan's perspective-bending "Botany of Desire" to the environmental humanities' "vegetal politics", the entanglements between plants and people are ubiquitous, mundane and often hiding in plain sight. As part of the inquiries into Vegetal Otherness, Špela Petrič set out to produce her own phytocracy-revealing onto-epistemological tools that are inspired by actual institutions/domains/cultural practices framing plant-people relations, but also playfully oblivious to their axioms and boundaries. The fabulative expedition into the “wilderness” of Tree park Medlog, Celje, invites participants to reflect on plant governance as governance of plants. Guided by the artist’s alter ego Živa Pikaja, they encounter the vegetal through a multitude of uncanny perspectives, facilitated by recombinant tools, specifically created to point to dissonances and reciprocity in plant-people relationships.
Manufacture of tools Scenart d.o.o., Design Miha Turšič, Photography Miha Godec, Video Laurynas Skeisgiela
BIPOLAR (CL)
dance by Ana Barros
Photo by Rodrigo Alonso Molina Meza
Dramaturgy Isabel Burr Raty
2015-2018
Bi-Polar is a contemporary dance performance where two criss crossed bodies search to appear and dissapear inmersed in a world of technological control.
Coreographers & Dancers Ana Barros, Macarena Arrigorriaga Balbontin Production & costume design Alejandra Bobadilla Alvarado Original music score Jorge Aliaga Light design Cristian Navarro Ugarte Graphic design Diego Becas
Seasons Santiago Off Festival Matucana 100, Festival de las Artes Valparaíso, GAM, Villa Grimaldi, Estudio, Fotografico Simón Bolivar
VIDEO vimeo.com/136462824
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HET AALTAR OPEN RESEARCH LAB (BE)
installation performance by Bárbara Echevarría
Dramaturgy assistance & performers coach Isabel Burr Raty
Co-produced by Mestizo Arts Festival & T’arsenal Mechelen
2014
In the frame of T’arsenaal Theater Open Research Lab, Barbara Echeverria, Argentinean Theater director that collaborates with Mestizo Arts Festival, presented Het Performance open research lab, which approached the relationship we have to death and our deceased.