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Culture Acción Tipo de actividad Paises participantes PL,FR,EL
Fechas de inicio y fin Estado del proyecto ongoing Subvención
Coordinador NOWY TEATR PL
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The ITHACA project plots out a new axis that links the West, the East and the South, thus deconstructing the binary thinking that keeps forcing us to choose between East and West and between North and South. This new axis is still political in nature: it is a line of migration, marked out by pontoons full of refugees drifting by the shore, and illegal crossings of ever higher border walls in trucks heading towards lands that had been promised. It is an axis along which people are seeking a place for themselves, eternally wandering in search of a home. In Ancient Greece, stories about gods and heroes, religion and history – what we now call mythology – set boundaries that mortals were not allowed to cross. But even though it imposed norms, this tradition and its teachings were always open to debate and critical discourse. Freedom to explore and express new ideas encouraged artistic creativity. All these elements helped shape European cultural heritage and the codes of communication still used within its civilizational sphere.Such a take on the theme of migration in a time of crisis exposes the cultural clichés related to the foundation myths, rooted in the cultures of Antiquity, which underpin the contemporary history of Europe. It calls into question the visible and seeks to look under the surface. Rejection of the symmetrical dynamic obtaining between these two extremes can open up a space for the establishment of a performative social laboratory where collective history will encounter the personal experience of young artists. In the intervals between performances of artistic narratives developed by the international team assembled by Krzysztof Warlikowski, there will be created a workshop space for the modern-day Telemachus and Penelope, whose motives can sometimes be hard to fathom. This will be performative reckoning with European tradition and remembrance, exploring the ways in which people respond to one another and take responsibility for themselves. |