RUINED (2023-24) with DEBORAH ROBBIANO AND SéBASTIAN TRIPOD
We evoke the figure of the ruined monument. We build fertile ruins in collaboration with fungi.
We imagine a monument of finitude, in a metabolic cycle of composition and decomposition.
We engage in mushrooming as a methodology, a way of looking at things and a way of working.
We build the ruins of a theatre to come.
Ruins evoke a durational process: they are in transition, on the verge of falling. But most of the time, even in tales of ruination, as Tsing explains, progress controls us. "We are stuck with the problem of living despite economic and ecological ruination. Neither tales of progress nor of ruin tell us how to think about collaborative survival. It is time to pay attention to mushroom picking. Not that this will save us-but it might open our imagination."
interview in Nyon ©Mr Jadis Production - Matthieu Moerlen
"Vers les imaginaires du mycelium" (FR) by Emmanuel Leriche in ESSE, NO.115: DECAY, Montréal / International, 1 April 2025
Nyon, 11-13/08/23 RUINED in the ROT GARDEN, far festival
Brussels, 18/10-11/11 RUINED & ROT n0dine + rile*
Bochum, 18/11-28/4/24 RUINED "Our house is a very very very fine house"
We imagine a monument of finitude, in a metabolic cycle of composition and decomposition.
We engage in mushrooming as a methodology, a way of looking at things and a way of working.
We build the ruins of a theatre to come.
Ruins evoke a durational process: they are in transition, on the verge of falling. But most of the time, even in tales of ruination, as Tsing explains, progress controls us. "We are stuck with the problem of living despite economic and ecological ruination. Neither tales of progress nor of ruin tell us how to think about collaborative survival. It is time to pay attention to mushroom picking. Not that this will save us-but it might open our imagination."
interview in Nyon ©Mr Jadis Production - Matthieu Moerlen
"Vers les imaginaires du mycelium" (FR) by Emmanuel Leriche in ESSE, NO.115: DECAY, Montréal / International, 1 April 2025
Nyon, 11-13/08/23 RUINED in the ROT GARDEN, far festival
Brussels, 18/10-11/11 RUINED & ROT n0dine + rile*
Bochum, 18/11-28/4/24 RUINED "Our house is a very very very fine house"
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Photos credits: Deborah Robbiano
TOWARDS A RUINED THEATRE (2024) with DEBORAH ROBBIANO AND SéBASTIAN TRIPOD
The theatre turns into a compost in which process equals products and things are not stable but rather in constant decay and regrowth.
A situation creating space for questions, metaphors and images around contamination and finality.
Is every encounter a form of contamination? Is every performance a ruin that could bring fruit?
24.04—22.05.2024
Supported by Kaaitheater, Pilar and VUB Crosstalks
A situation creating space for questions, metaphors and images around contamination and finality.
Is every encounter a form of contamination? Is every performance a ruin that could bring fruit?
24.04—22.05.2024
Supported by Kaaitheater, Pilar and VUB Crosstalks
photo: Silvia Cappellari
