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Video installation: January 14th to 16th, and from January 18th to 23rd, Santiago | Performance: January 11th to 13th, Santiago

“A performance that tests the audience by depriving them of the opportunity to confront other human beings, stunning and annihilating them, leaving them only with questions”.

–Birdmen Magazine

Created by: Romeo Castellucci | Sound: Scott Gibbons | Video: Luca Mattei | In collaboration with: Giulia Colla | IT consultant: Alessandro Colla | Choreographed and performed by: Gloria Dorliguzzo | Produced by: Socìetas | Photography: Lorenza Daverio.

Romeo Castellucci

Director

A holistic creator takes to the stage

Director and set, costume and lighting designer Romeo Castellucci is known worldwide for creating theater based on the arts as a whole, providing a complete vision of the work in question. His theater suggests something that voids the supremacy of literature, turning the stage into a complex form of art, made up of extraordinarily abundant images and expressed through understandable styles such as music, sculpture, painting and architecture. His productions have been put on at some of the world’s most important theaters. He has directed the theater section of the Venice Biennale and been an associated artist at the Festival d’Avignon and a guest director at the Berlin Schaubhüne. This year, he directed Don Giovanni by Mozart in Salzburg and premiered the play Bros in Lugano.

-Its avant-garde concept presents language as an obligtory kind of communication that has been imposed on us under the pretense of ‘equality’. “In this, a language machine exhausts entire spheres of reality, since the nouns are all the same, mechanically produced as a whole, like prefabricated buildings. It’s a kind of knowledge that leaves no room for escape. Every pause is abolished, engaged. Pauses, or the absence of words, become a battlefield for words and their military-like aggression; nouns from the dictionary, projected on to the screen, are flags planted in a conquered land”.

-It is a good opportunity to find out more about the work of Romeo Castellucci, considered Italy’s most ground-breaking director and whose undeniable artistic style blends theater, the visual arts, music, dance and opera. He will also take part in Santiago a Mil 2022 with his series of videos called Tragedia Endogonidia, available to watch for free on Teatroamil.TV.

Performance: In this avant-garde artistic style, the play’s medium is the artist’s body and the play itself is the action used to convey this, normally through a combination of multiple elements, such as the visual arts, music, dance and theater. It is one of the artistic styles that transformed art in the mid-twentieth century.

Video installation: This is a form of video art that uses video as one of its main components, linking video images to other objects and materials in a specific space. In this case, given their size and form, the video images spill beyond the limited frame of a screen and are not conditioned by or related to television as a means of communication.

-Check out the trailer of Il Terzo Reich at the Italian Mittelfest festival.

Il Terzo Reich

By Romeo Castellucci

  • Italy
  • Spanish
  • 50 minutes

Italian master Romeo Castellucci offers a provocative video installation that places spectators under a true dictatorship of words.

What would happen if a giant screen suddenly projected all the nouns that exist in the Spanish language in an unrelenting burst of words, all under the gaze of the person standing in front of it?

Il Terzo Reich, the latest creation by Italian master Romeo Castellucci, is a video installation based on a ghostly representation of every noun; an almost infinite set of letters that together evoke the memory of a concept. Soon, the speed of the words is such that our eyes can barely make each of them out. Our vision is restricted, until we reach a turning point where a fusion occurs, just before we lose control of our understanding. In the blinking that results, we can no longer make out individual words.

Faced with the extremes that this frenzied series of words creates, some of them leave their mark on the spectator’s visual cortex, although the vast majority are lost. Defenseless, people therefore start to consider human words as a matter of quantity. Not what, but how many? This furious load of nouns leaves no room for choice or judgement. The heart of language becomes white noise, leading to chaos.

“A performance that tests the audience by depriving them of the opportunity to confront other human beings, stunning and annihilating them, leaving them only with questions”.

–Birdmen Magazine

Created by: Romeo Castellucci | Sound: Scott Gibbons | Video: Luca Mattei | In collaboration with: Giulia Colla | IT consultant: Alessandro Colla | Choreographed and performed by: Gloria Dorliguzzo | Produced by: Socìetas | Photography: Lorenza Daverio.

Romeo Castellucci

Director

A holistic creator takes to the stage

Director and set, costume and lighting designer Romeo Castellucci is known worldwide for creating theater based on the arts as a whole, providing a complete vision of the work in question. His theater suggests something that voids the supremacy of literature, turning the stage into a complex form of art, made up of extraordinarily abundant images and expressed through understandable styles such as music, sculpture, painting and architecture. His productions have been put on at some of the world’s most important theaters. He has directed the theater section of the Venice Biennale and been an associated artist at the Festival d’Avignon and a guest director at the Berlin Schaubhüne. This year, he directed Don Giovanni by Mozart in Salzburg and premiered the play Bros in Lugano.

-Por su vanguardista concepto, que presenta al lenguaje como una comunicación impuesta y obligatoria bajo la pretensión de “igualdad”. “Aquí, una máquina de lenguaje agota esferas enteras de la realidad, ya que los sustantivos son todos iguales, producidos mecánicamente en masa, como edificios prefabricados en un conocimiento que no deja espacio para escapar. Todas las pausas están abolidas, ocupadas. La pausa, o la ausencia de palabras, se convierte en un campo de batalla para las palabras y su agresión militar; los sustantivos del diccionario, proyectados en la pantalla, son banderas plantadas en una tierra conquistada”.

-Porque es una buena oportunidad para conocer el trabajo de Romeo Castellucci, considerado el director más transgresor de Italia y poseedor de un lenguaje artístico inconfundible, en el que se funde el teatro, las artes visuales, la música, la danza y la ópera. En Santiago a Mil 2022 está presente, además, con su serie de videos Tragedia Endogonidia, disponibles gratis en Teatroamil.TV

Performance: Expresión artística de carácter vanguardista en la que el medio de la obra es el cuerpo del artista y la obra en sí es la acción que este realiza, combinando, en general, múltiples elementos, como las artes plásticas, la música, la danza y el teatro. Es una de las expresiones artísticas que transformaron el arte a mediados del siglo XX.

Videoinstalación: Una de las modalidades del videoarte que utiliza el video como componente central, y que relaciona la imagen videográfica con otros objetos y materiales, ocupando un espacio específico. La imagen de video, en este caso, desborda el reducido marco de una pantalla por su tamaño y forma, y no está condicionada ni tiene relación alguna con la televisión en cuanto medio de comunicación.

-Revisa el trailer de Il Terzo Reich realizado por el festival italiano Mittelfest.

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