Mauricio Corbalán, Pio Torroja

Staging cities/Buenos Aires

How to make an urban theater where humans and not humans will be represented at a public controversy? How to set up a new assembly device to give voice to these emergent characters? m7red gathers a group of experts to build up a non-human character.

13 May 2009

Staging cities experiments with new ways of staging public issues.
The challenge at Buenos Aires is to set up a new assembly device to give voice to emergent characters in order to expand political imagination.
How to make an urban theater where humans and not humans will be represented at a public controversy?
Staging cities gathers in Buenos Aires a group of experts to build up a non-human character: the urban shit of the Riachuelo river basin.
Since colonial times, the Riachuelo river is more a political and ecological battlefield than a harmonic ecosystem. The ecological questions that are set up in this scenario appear like controversies and uncertainties. We can consider an ecosystem which would be like a wall-less assembly where many types of speakers could have voice.

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