“It is in the praxis that man must show the truth, that means, the reality and the might, the earthliness of his thinking”. (K.Marx)
In the course of 3 days, we are collectively devising (Architecture students from the ETSAB-UPC University and El Conde de Torrefiel) a big totem with humble materials that will be built live in front of a sitting audience. The process of construction will be underscored by the projection of a text that reflects upon the notion of work in the 21st century, what is the meaning of the working time in a life, whether there is still a working class, and what we currently believe in. God and money, work and leisure, life and fiction, arts and craft: these are some of the questions addressed by this open studio, which is the fourth declination of the stage research project ULTRAFICTION.
This performance is part of the Sâlmon Festival and has been articulated in relation to the Santa Mònica arts center, intersecting with its current exhibition The tradition that crosses us.
El Conde de Torrefiel: From 2010, Tanya Beyeler and Pablo Gisbert lead the artistic project El Conde de Torrefiel. Our stage works shape a visual and textual aesthetics that arises from the oscillation between literature, visuals arts and choreographed movement. The project El Conde de Torrefiel has achieved its own distinctive stage language, mostly thanks to the support and visibility granted to us by European theatre venues and festivals.
We are currently undergoing a research project called ULTRAFICTION that will end up with the premiere of a staged work in May 2022. During 2021 and with a clearly experimental attitude, we have activated a series of public presentation of stage apparatuses willing to challenge the forms and inherent tensions currently contained in the concept of “fiction”. Sâlmon< 2022 is hosting the fourth take on this project.
With students of ETSAB-UPC (Barcelona School of Architecture - Polytechnic University of Catalonia).
Students: Jose Alberto Zapata, Bennani Alia, Elena Álvarez Andrés, Sara Atristain Beldarrain, Ignacio Candel Rubio, Alexandra Chabriat, Pau Gelpí i Roig, Bernat Ginot i Julià, Maria José González Ruiz, Laia Montserrat Cortázar, Oriol Palomeque Candi, Oriol Puig Font, Leire Román Hernández, Guillem Rosal Grifoll, Júlia Sabater i Nogué, Carme Rosselló Oliver, Ariadna Olivas Porcar, Verónica Cardona Balbure, Carla Sabarich, Carmen Gómez García, Esther Gómez Motera.
Teachers: Yaiza Ares, Guillem Aloy Bibiloni, Guillermo López Ibáñez, Antoni Ramon Graells.
Photographer: Judith Casas
