TRIC - (THE RIGHT CHOICE)
TRIC is a project, which aims at investigating the concept “Augmented Democracy” through theatre workshops in schools and a theatre show. The aim is to increase the awareness of the cognitive biases that influence the democratic debate and increase the awareness of the individual (and subsequently collective) social and civic responsibility connected to the use of technology in a democratic process, when it can have a global impact and have a reflection on ethnic groups, minorities and small communities.
In collaboration with the software engineering dpt. of VIA University College – Campus Horsens we are developing an App which is going to be used by the audience to vote live on how the dramaturgy should evolve during the show and simulate an augmented democratic process.
The word TRIC is an acronym for “The RIght Choice”. What can be considered the right choice?
Should it be a choice made by the majority of people only because it was a result of a democratic process, even though this choice leads to a bad result or an unfair treatment for some minorities?
Should it be a choice made by few technocrats, who go against the majority of people’s will through a non-democratic process in the name of “The Common Good”?
In collaboration with the software engineering dpt. of VIA University College – Campus Horsens we are developing an App which is going to be used by the audience to vote live on how the dramaturgy should evolve during the show and simulate an augmented democratic process.
The word TRIC is an acronym for “The RIght Choice”. What can be considered the right choice?
Should it be a choice made by the majority of people only because it was a result of a democratic process, even though this choice leads to a bad result or an unfair treatment for some minorities?
Should it be a choice made by few technocrats, who go against the majority of people’s will through a non-democratic process in the name of “The Common Good”?
- Partners: PLATFORM K (DK)
- Collaborators: VIA University – Campus Horsens (DK), Mariano Pugliese, Cognitive Scientist (DK)
- Debut: June 2023 at Teater Momentum, Denmark.
TERMINUS
Co-producers: HumanLab, Art Farm, Horsens Kommune
Partners: Platform K
Concept and directing: Anna Carla Maria Penati
Componist and Sound Designer: Domenico Mannelli
Scenography and Mask maker: Alessandra Faienza
Producent consultant: Kirsti Pilgaard Bentzen
Performers: Anna Carla Maria Penati, Marco Zavarise, Martin Schultz Kristensen, MengTin Liu
Audience: fra 6 år
Partners: Platform K
Concept and directing: Anna Carla Maria Penati
Componist and Sound Designer: Domenico Mannelli
Scenography and Mask maker: Alessandra Faienza
Producent consultant: Kirsti Pilgaard Bentzen
Performers: Anna Carla Maria Penati, Marco Zavarise, Martin Schultz Kristensen, MengTin Liu
Audience: fra 6 år
A man, an old man, a homeless, lives in a train station: every day he sees hundreds of people passing by. They pass and do not stop, like the time: flies away to never come back. If instead, for once, people slow down and even stop? What would happen? Terminus is a show that explores the infinite facets of human relationships and their unexpected surprises.
Terminus is a show that aims at re-discovering the value of time. In this historical moment we are used to fulfil our waiting time scrolling our phone, and create therefore an “accelerated time” in which not even the slightest moment can be wasted in waiting. In this way we lose though, our connection to the present moment and don’t allow anymore unexpected encounters with other humans to be part of our lives. We decided therefore to set the show in a train station’s waiting room, a “non-place” like thousands others in the world, to explore the wonder, which unpredictable encounters with other people could bring in a suspended time. We feel relevant to tell a story that takes place in these moments and spaces that our generation and the new ones have forgotten, in order to remind us that taking time to raise our eyes and wait for the others is still a valuable option.
Anna Carla Maria Penati, instruktør, actress and mask lecturer
(Interview at Dramaturgi Dpt. Aarhus Universitet 2020)
"Masks have always been mysterious and fascinating objects: originating from ancient traditions, they bring us, still today, closer to the most unexpressed part of our being, awakening our dreams and making us laugh and cry. Every time you look at a mask, even when completely still, a new, imaginary world - sometimes curious, sometimes funny - instantly opens up; both performing arts and folklore have constantly exploited their remarkable expressive potentiality. But what they mean to me most, it is that masks ask the audience to breathe in a suspended poetic time and to look at the world with the astonishment of a child".
ESSE EST PERCIPI
Short film - 2020. The video was recorded during the lockdown at Fængslet, prison in Horsens.
2020-2021
Concept, performance, video editing and voice over by Anna Penati
Movement consultant: Marco Zavarise
Songs by Sara Polo
© humanlab.studio 2020
Inspired by Rockaby (1980) - Samuel Beckett “Life is nothing more than the act of perception or the state of being perceived. To be is to be perceived”.Berkeley (1685-1753).
Jerzy Grotowski used to say that theatre manifests itself if there is at least one actor and one spectator. But in the impossibility of having a spectator witnessing the theatrical act, what happens to theatre? Can theatre die?
So doesn’t theatre exist right now because it is not perceived?
An actress locked up in her prison/house builds her own black box to resist. She resists and looks for an audience that would recognize her existence. Until she realizes there is no way out if not death. What if, however, this pandemic is actually a gift? What if dying is actually a stepping stone to rethink our theatre. Like a fire that increases the fertility of the burnt soil.
Esse est percepi becomes a ritual to kill theatre, in order for it to be reborn stronger from its ashes.
2020-2021
Concept, performance, video editing and voice over by Anna Penati
Movement consultant: Marco Zavarise
Songs by Sara Polo
© humanlab.studio 2020
Inspired by Rockaby (1980) - Samuel Beckett “Life is nothing more than the act of perception or the state of being perceived. To be is to be perceived”.Berkeley (1685-1753).
Jerzy Grotowski used to say that theatre manifests itself if there is at least one actor and one spectator. But in the impossibility of having a spectator witnessing the theatrical act, what happens to theatre? Can theatre die?
So doesn’t theatre exist right now because it is not perceived?
An actress locked up in her prison/house builds her own black box to resist. She resists and looks for an audience that would recognize her existence. Until she realizes there is no way out if not death. What if, however, this pandemic is actually a gift? What if dying is actually a stepping stone to rethink our theatre. Like a fire that increases the fertility of the burnt soil.
Esse est percepi becomes a ritual to kill theatre, in order for it to be reborn stronger from its ashes.
PETROL
Audience Award at the 16th International Fêtes internationales du théâtre Next Wave Festival, Montreal
Directed by Giacomo Gamba
Directed by Giacomo Gamba
BRILLIANT TRACES
by Cindy Lou Johnson
Directed bt Ettore Oldi
Performers: Anna Carla Maria Penati and Marco Zavarise
an European debut
Directed bt Ettore Oldi
Performers: Anna Carla Maria Penati and Marco Zavarise
an European debut
NORDICOMÆDIA
Three years research project supported by Europæisk Kulturregion 2021.
LUMEN - AARHUS CAPITAL OF CULTURE 2017
THE BEGINNING OF MEMORY
Teaching and directing VIA UNIVERSITY COLLEGE's students (2018/2019)
