Tradition

Tradition
Gaivotas Em Terra

Auéééu Teatro

Tradition

Four actors on stage attempt to create a work of art, bond to inactivity. Their lethargy predicts a life where the existence of artists, utopia, dreams and memories is no longer possible; where “the present is the form of all life”.

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Duration: 75min

Booking: 5€

Just like Walter Benjamin questions artistic objects’ cultic value by the overlap of its exposition value, auéééu – Teatro asks the same about the idea of Tradition: is it resisting due to material objects – now with a capitalized, clean, and seductive mask, or is it blocked as an object of subjectivity? The symbolic field of Tradition has anyhow changed. As Gilles Lipovetsky asserts, we are walking into a “transesthetic” capitalism where things are observed as if we were tourists.

Sight has lost its tradition, to benefit technological advance, set loose of spirituality, ethics and morals: Tradition and Fashion are merged into one; God can be my car; Crimea is my favourite TV show. The impact that technology produces on human behaviour foretells a world inhabited by homo machinas, ruled by economics.

actors Beatriz Brás, Vânia Geraz, João Santos and Sérgio Coragem
production Pedro Caetano
collaboration David Antunes, Statt Miller and Jean-Paul Bucchieri
light and sound Pedro Caetano