May 30, 2024
"Manifests for after the end of the world" - supporters wanted for an artistic project by Isabel Costa at Staatsschauspiel Dresden
Call for experts & interested people
In November 2024 the European festival for young stage directors Fast Forward at Staatsschauspiel Dresden will host a per- formance by Portuguese theater maker Isabel Costa. Costa’s site-specific performance MANIFESTS FOR AFTER THE END OF THE WORLD offers an immersive philosophical and artistic encounter by treating an issue of increasingly relevance: Seven performers perform excerpts of seven manifests written after 2000, each formulating analyses of the existing and drafts for a future society. Walking through an empty building small groups of spectators encounter each performer individually. Taken away from common gestures of political activism the manifests are given voice in an intimite setting between individuals who are invited to let them resonate.
In preparation for the performances as part of the festival from 14-17 November 2024, Isabel Costa, and her team are looking for experts and interested people from different communities to accompany the project and help making it accessible for a German audience. For one of the tasks that needs to be solved is the one of translation. In order to solve this task in the frame of an artistic concept we are looking for the support and for the expertises of people who are on the one hand interested to share their experiences with social and philosophical blueprints, utopias and standpoints, with teaching and with cultural education and communication. And simultaneously we’re looking for people who are from different angles familiar with the topic and could imagine to translate the seven performers.